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Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

emotional relaxing slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character

2.0

I fear I was so bored reading this 😬

Jo March I will always love you girl but idk

とんがり帽子のアトリエ 13 限定版 [Tongari Boushi no Atelier 13 Limited Edition] by 白浜鴎, Kamome Shirahama

adventurous hopeful reflective fast-paced

4.75

Volume 14 when 🥲

An Honored Vow by Melissa Blair

adventurous emotional hopeful medium-paced

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

4.5

God, I will miss it here

Shiver: Junji Ito Selected Stories by Junji Ito

dark fast-paced

4.5

These stories were all really good & every single time I finished one I was like “this couldn’t possibly get any weirder” & then it would

I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison

dark reflective tense fast-paced

4.25

This was a crazy cool concept… a literal hellscape being inflicted upon man after playing God through scientific creation, and a creation with such a deep hatred for man who created him that it could not even put word to that hatred & only slowly destroyed and tortured them all

A Song For You And I by K. O'Neill

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring lighthearted fast-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

This one made me cry lads.

Absolutely adorable and I loved the bard-core aesthetic & I went into this blind and was so heartwarmed by the contents of this 🫶. 

My only grievance is I’m so sad my arc was in black and white because K. O’Neill’s art is so stunning and I need to see it in color!!!! 

A Certain Hunger by Chelsea G. Summers

adventurous dark funny informative reflective fast-paced

• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Food critic psychopath + depraved sex addict = A murderous cannibal <3 
(we love a girlboss with a hobby!) 

This truly was like being in the mind of Pearl x Hannibal x Dexter x Patrick Bateman & I had so much fun reading this.

There’s also so many beautiful and raw quotes in here & I annotated it so much

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

challenging dark informative reflective slow-paced

3.75

This felt very comparable to Pride and Prejudice in a lot of ways?? 

Positives:
- I really did enjoy the affair between Anna & Vronsky and all of their passion and toxicity; especially earlier in their first meetings, the tension was palpable
- I was very surprised at all of the feminism (there were a lot of Amy March in Greta Gerwig’s Little Women adaption-coded feminist monologues that went hard) & critiques of the marriage market, religion, the Russian dynasty, treatment of women/their place in society, high society in general, capitalism, the rich elite, & a lot of advocacy for the working class/the poor that were soooooo good for how old this book is 
- I do think this book was very vivid 

Negatives:
- it was simply too long and rambly & it hit a point where I was really over it during the last third-ish & just wanted it to end. There were a lot of side characters undergoing their own courtly high society drama that I cared about earlier in the novel, but in the end I was very over it.
- even though this was ahead of it’s time I feel in relation to it’s feminism it was still out of pocket very misogynistic at times which was a vibe kill & quite contradictory 
- the racism near the end 🙄

It's Pride, Baby! by Allen R. Wells

5.0

Also made me cry at work

Circle of Love by Monique Gray Smith

5.0

Adorable and intersectional and accessible and made my heart happy