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Psychic Teenage Bloodbath II by Carl John Lee

4.0

I actually liked this a lot more than the first... The writing really stepped up it was very campy, gorey, emotional💔the ending was so tragic for no reason😭 definitely one of the top extreme horrors I've read there were no boundaries on this!!

Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through by T. Fleischmann

3.5

I was really liking this as I was reading/listening to it but after finishing idk it didn't really leave me with as much as I thought it would... Definitely some great passages and trans insight, I also really liked the art history aspect :0 a great reading experience but not much after that. 

Any Man by Amber Tamblyn

5.0

OMFG... the hype is real this was so good. The audiobook was amazing so many different voices and formats!! I listened to it on 1.5x speed bc I kept wanting to know what was happening lmfao😭very haunting, disturbing, thought provoking, etc etc everything a modern horror book should be💋

Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown

2.0

Historical significance✅
Everything else❌

The Grownup by Gillian Flynn

3.5

I found the story really enjoyable and classic suspenseful Gillian Flynn writing but I wish it was more novella length, it was very short 

I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman

3.5

Overhyped I fear... The first 50 pages I was like ok you've lost me I was so bored and it doesn't really change the rest of the book, the story just gets more interesting. One of the bleakest books I've probably ever read and NOTHING is explained there is no background whatsoever. I finished it and I was just like what was the point... 💔

Sonny's Blues by James Baldwin

5.0

"The seven years' difference in our ages lay between us like a chasm: I wondered if these years would ever operate between us as a bridge. I was remembering, and it made it hard to catch my breath, that I had been there when he was born; and I had heard the first words he had ever spoken. When he started to walk, he walked from our mother straight to me. I caught him just before he fell when he took the first steps he ever took in this world." 

James Baldwin is almost tooo good at prose, what a beautiful homage to brotherhood, race, life and music💙

The Dangers of Smoking in Bed by Mariana Enríquez

3.5

I liked it, but definitely preferred "Things We Lost in the Fire" - these stories felt a lot more abrupt, less uncanny/scary atmosphere. I'm still intrigued tho so🤷maybe it's because I audiobooked it?

Carnage on 84th Street by Judith Sonnet

3.5

Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement by Angela Y. Davis

I really enjoyed this loosely connected anthology of essays, speeches, and interviews. Angela Davis insightful as always, and the audiobook narrated by her made it even better‼️ I would say it's more revolving around collective activism and the prison industrial complex than specifically the events in Ferguson or Palestine, but still great either way