emma_b_rhodes's reviews
106 reviews

Keep by Jenny Haysom

emotional reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

This is a really beautiful, poetic novel about what the objects in our lives mean (or dont mean), and the value, and practice, of memory. A book that'll warm your heart and/or make you cry. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Dementia

Minor: Child death, Blood

Paris: The Memoir by Paris Hilton

dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

Fame is a trauma (on top of so many other traumas), and Paris Hilton is an icon 💟

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, Confinement, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Forced institutionalization, Abandonment

Moderate: Child death, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Suicide, Excrement, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Alcohol

Minor: Miscarriage, Pedophilia, Abortion, Pregnancy, Pandemic/Epidemic

Hair for Men by Michelle Winters

emotional fast-paced

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

3.75

A weird, fun, beautiful very Canadian, very New Brunswick book about angry women hurt by men who are hurt by patriarchy - I eat that up. It did make me cry. There were really beautiful parts I wanted to last longer, and parts that felt kinda flat. I didnt like the ending.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Sexual assault, Alcohol

Moderate: Fatphobia, Sexual content, Medical content

Candelaria: A Novel by Melissa Lozada-Oliva

dark emotional funny medium-paced

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

3.0

This book was weird. Zombie cult. But it's poetic and funny and about sisters reconnecting & I love that stuff. Inspired by a poem by MLO about an abuelita surviving the apocalypse. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Sexual content, Blood, Cannibalism, Pregnancy

Moderate: Drug abuse, Infidelity, Medical content, Abortion, Colonisation

Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein

challenging informative inspiring medium-paced

5.0

This has to be required reading for everyone right now. Send this book to governments and policy maker while people are still being killed. 

Terrarium by Matthew Walsh

emotional funny fast-paced

5.0

Such in depth imagery and fun humour. Had be saying "wow" under my breath and thinking of the people i'm gonna share the collection with

Sprawl: The Time it Took Us to Forget by Conyer Clayton, Manahil Bandukwala

reflective fast-paced

4.5

Sweet lil friendship chap, with cows 🐄 

Rebellion Box by Hollay Ghadery

emotional reflective fast-paced

4.25

Some really cool poems working to form in this book! Also some heavy hitting lines that I want to write to 🙏. 

Jonny Appleseed by Joshua Whitehead

emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.25

Really beautiful and poetic. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Sexual content, Excrement, Grief

Moderate: Alcoholism, Bullying, Death, Drug use, Racism, Blood, Death of parent, Alcohol, Colonisation, Dysphoria

Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle by Amelia Nagoski, Emily Nagoski

informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

Finished this book and implemented some of the things I learned into my life/ coping mechanisms, and it did make a difference! Excercise & sleep help with stress - whodathunk! 😅.