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207 reviews

Vacaciones al sol by Neus Sans, Lourdes Miquel

funny lighthearted mysterious medium-paced

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

3.0

"A Paco las dos cosas que más le gustan son enamorarse y el chocolate"

me for real

read this for my Spanish class. realized I don't really know Spanish. idk it took me forever to read but it's super short. very silly plot 

Hungry Ghost by Victoria Ying

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad 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 theme of this book , disordered eating, is so important. I've suffered with body dysnorphia for a good part of my life and the struggles of it were depicted amazingly through Val's character. I think purging as an eating disorder is less talked about in books in comparison to anorexia, so its cool that this book did. the cover art is ethereal, and so is the rest of the art in this graphic novel. I liked the characters and the plot was cute, i just feel like it was a pretty predictable read , with the writing being very sparse and "basic" for lack of a better term. however Val's relationship with her mom made me cry, books touching on immigrant family relationships will never cease to make me bawl 😀

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Bullying and Eating disorder

Minor: Bullying

Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney

challenging emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

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

3.5

I can't help comparing all of Sally Rooney's books to each other, though I'm unsure if I should. So far, my least favorite has been Conversations with Friends, but I can't decide if I liked this book more or less than Normal People. What I can say is that this book was tender and introspective, exploring the deepest crevices of relationship dynamics in the modern age. I found Felix to be a sort of Nick Carroway, observing these dynamics, which is why throughout the book he has grown to be my favorite character. The email portions were cool ways of developing on themes outside of the main plots between Alice and Felix and Eileen and Simon, and they revealed more about the characters than the remainder of the novel, in my opinion. I really only feel like the book got better around Lola's wedding, so before that I was sorta bored. Also I realized I am not a sex scene girly (at least not Sally Rooney sex scenes)

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual content

Minor: Emotional abuse

Scout Is Not a Band Kid by Jade Armstrong

funny lighthearted relaxing fast-paced

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

4.5

cute read!! a really diverse range of characters, we love to see it!! the art is super prettyy.I read it in 30 min, it was a blissful break from "beautiful world, where are you". expect many more short books/ graphic novel reads cuz idk if I will fulfill my reading goal this year 😵

Mythology (DK Eyewitness Books) by Neil Phillip

i read a couple mythology sections (some Greek, Hindu, inuit ) but i just got real bored and didn't love the format (too many facts and images condensed on one page). I think i just want to get back to reading a novel and felt the need to read this book cuz i own it lol (and haven't read it since i was 12)

Also sidenote, INUIT MYTHOLOGY IS WILD 😭 it almost always includes humans marrying some sort of animal but it's also pretty interesting 

The Idiot by Elif Batuman

challenging informative 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

3.75

Agony by Mark Beyer

funny lighthearted mysterious fast-paced

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

3.75

no plot, just vibes
very funky comic, i love the art and think it would make a cool shirt for a skater/stoner boy (or me :) )
a very simple but not necessarily mindless read, i would argue it has some deeper meaning. 

The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet by John Green

challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.5

I like when John Green talks about seemingly "unimportant" topics that reveal alot about humans and our relationship to the world (like Kentucky Bluegrass and Penguins of Madagascar) 


I give The Anthropocene Reviewed four and a half stars ;)

No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai

dark mysterious reflective sad 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

3.5

• i need to reread this cause i got hella lost at some point. 
• this book is VERY vague so you need to be really concentrated to full understand it. 
• would like to read Junjo Ito's manga adaptationI'd love to see how it's imagined visually. 
• so many trigger warnings so please research!!

Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi

challenging emotional informative reflective tense fast-paced

5.0