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Ghost Music by An Yu
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? N/A
- Strong character development? No
2.25
Fierce Fairytales: Poems and Stories to Stir Your Soul by Nikita Gill
slow-paced
1.0
Ohhhhh no. Deary me, this was quite awful.
Pretty words, yes, but very lazily compiled. As someone who has done in-depth research into a lot of the female characters employed in this poetry compendium, it was very clear that the author didn’t even read the primary texts these characters came from. They replied solely on their superficial and surface level understanding and literary history of these characters, probably collated from Disney films or other mass-made reception material, and then wrote them into a painfully repetitive aggressive girl power, misandristic narrative because that’s what feminism is, right?!
It was poor. There was no research done. No poetic composition. I would bet good money every one of these poems are first drafts and never touched again. The first few poems were soo overdone — at first I thought I was reading my own poetry from when I was sixteen because I wrote about the exact same topic in the exact same way.
It wasn’t compiled without any thought or poetic craft. The figures weren’t researched in the slightest, they were merely exploited to peddle some easy to shill marketable feminism that became outdated back in the early noughties. There was no consider for their literary historicity or place with feminist history either. Shame such a wonderful front cover illustration was wasted on this collection.
Pretty words, yes, but very lazily compiled. As someone who has done in-depth research into a lot of the female characters employed in this poetry compendium, it was very clear that the author didn’t even read the primary texts these characters came from. They replied solely on their superficial and surface level understanding and literary history of these characters, probably collated from Disney films or other mass-made reception material, and then wrote them into a painfully repetitive aggressive girl power, misandristic narrative because that’s what feminism is, right?!
It was poor. There was no research done. No poetic composition. I would bet good money every one of these poems are first drafts and never touched again. The first few poems were soo overdone — at first I thought I was reading my own poetry from when I was sixteen because I wrote about the exact same topic in the exact same way.
It wasn’t compiled without any thought or poetic craft. The figures weren’t researched in the slightest, they were merely exploited to peddle some easy to shill marketable feminism that became outdated back in the early noughties. There was no consider for their literary historicity or place with feminist history either. Shame such a wonderful front cover illustration was wasted on this collection.
The Stress-Proof Brain: Master Your Emotional Response to Stress Using Mindfulness and Neuroplasticity by Melanie Greenberg
informative
slow-paced
3.5
My Best Friend's Exorcism by Grady Hendrix
adventurous
dark
funny
mysterious
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
4.5
Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One Is; Revised Edition by Friedrich Nietzsche
challenging
funny
reflective
medium-paced
4.0
Dark Archives: A Librarian's Investigation Into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin by Megan Rosenbloom
informative
medium-paced
4.25
The Brain Fog Fix: Reclaim Your Focus, Memory, and Joy in Just 3 Weeks by Mike Dow
informative
fast-paced
3.5
The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy
reflective
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
3.5