cheee's reviews
37 reviews

If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution by Vincent Bevins

4.0

The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates

inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

Whale Music by Paul Quarrington

medium-paced

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

4.0

A great book. Kind of an alternate history on what would happen if Brian Wilson had been able to release Smile at the time it was made, but found he still was not healed. 

The Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley

2.5

there's some fine writing in it. but the majority is just a rich English Oxbridge orientalist taking drugs once and then deciding he knows God. it's interesting for being early, and i highlighted some passages, but i've read more edifying journals on erowid.

Woman at Point Zero by Nawal El Saadawi

challenging dark emotional funny informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

Battle Angel Alita, Vol. 1 by Yukito Kishiro

2.75

Red Team Blues by Cory Doctorow

informative mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? Yes

4.0

The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros

funny hopeful inspiring reflective relaxing medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

i love this book. cherish i mean

Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke

fast-paced

2.25

A Programmable Web: An Unfinished Work by Aaron Swartz

inspiring fast-paced

4.0

sweet and sad in context