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Late Bloomer by Mazey Eddings

4.0

I just love women, okay? 
There was some miscommunication between Opal and Pepper and bad decisions made by Opal in the first 100 pages that kind of drove me up the wall, but the sweetness of sapphic love and the banter and Mazey Eddings’ writing were all so cumulatively good that I forgive those dumbass parts.

Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

5.0

Toshikazu Kawaguchi punched me in the stomach and stole my lunch money (metaphorically). The perfect balance between life can be so hard and love doesn’t stop those hard things from occurring, but it still matters that the love exists.

The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm All-New Third Edition by

3.0

Entertaining in the way that I loved the Yellow Ribbon as a kid (i.e. fantastically morbid). A surprising amount of stories are repetitive and a handful are explicitly anti-Semitic or racist towards Black people.

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Did not finish book. Stopped at 36%.

Honestly very good. Considering I've been duped into reading classics before and hated the experience, this was funny and thoughtful and at some point I'll probably finish it. Now just isn't the time. 

Kissing the Coronavirus by M.J. Edwards

1.0

Genuinely never read something quite this bad, and yet I’m sharing a copy with my lovely friends Sisterhood-of-the-Traveling-Pants style and that makes it possibly the greatest book? Perspective.

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Butcher & Blackbird by Brynne Weaver

3.75

Different premise and tone than I was expecting. The banter is fantastic and frankly the sexiest part. Some plot details felt illogical, but ya know what? I was entertained nonetheless 

The Annotated Brothers Grimm by Maria Tatar, Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm
Did not finish book. Stopped at 19%.

Annotations weren’t as insightful as I’d hoped. Decided to read the unannotated, but full version instead

World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks

4.75

Amazingly written. The details and word building are crazy. The humanity of each character and the ultimate message of community for survival 10/10

Part of Your World by Abby Jimenez
Did not finish book. Stopped at 35%.

Objectively very good. Just not in the mood for contemporary romance right now. I do want to come back to it