boogiebeez's reviews
205 reviews

The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

emotional hopeful reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

Macbeth by William Shakespeare

adventurous challenging mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel

emotional funny lighthearted mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.75

 i love stories celebrating love through food and tradition but THIS WAS WACKKK

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

adventurous dark funny mysterious reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

one of the few classics i’ve enjoyed!! a cool mix of sci fi and historical

Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema by Laura Mulvey

informative medium-paced

4.0

laura mulvey was so real for this 🙌🏼 however I felt like her academic writing style was abnormally hard to read and inaccesible to the average reader

The Stranger by Albert Camus

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

First Person Singular by Haruki Murakami

adventurous hopeful mysterious reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.5

this was kind of a snoozefest…

rating of each story:
cream- pointless 1.5/5
on a stone pillow- it was ok.. 2/5
charlie parker plays bossa nova- jazzy 3.5/5
with the beatles- nice 3.25/5
confessions of a shinagawa monkey- 🙉 4/5
carnaval- wild ride 3/5
the yakult swallows poetry collection- it’s about baseball idgaf 0.5/5
first person singular-my fave, 4.5/5

The Applicant by Nazlı Koca

adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

literally me in a parallel universe 😻

Pet by Akwaeke Emezi

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea by Yukio Mishima

challenging dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, and Sexual content