heartscomma's reviews
64 reviews

I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman

4.0

oh. woah. literally no words can describe anything that I just read

Just Kids by Patti Smith

4.0

c’est la fin, mon merveilleux ami—this is the end, beautiful friend

Circe by Madeline Miller

4.5

All my life I have been moving forward, and now I am here. I have a mortal's voice, let me have the rest. I lift the brimming bowl to my lips and drink.

several chapters left and it got me thinking whether I could finish this book or not considering the amount of times I've given up before yet it were the chapters that crushed me the most. the writing, the characters, Circe, everything. why did it take this long?

Mina's Matchbox: A Novel by Yōko Ogawa

5.0

I am simply like a moth to a flame with asian literary fiction

White Nights by Fyodor Dostoevsky

3.0

my god, was that devastating

Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng

4.0

there were definitely some fires left

Moshi Moshi by Banana Yoshimoto

4.0

grief is a funny feeling—the way it seeps into every crack of your life

All the Lovers in the Night by Mieko Kawakami

4.0

the most perfect length for a mieko kawakami book—also, is this play about me? (re: fuyuko irie, I see you, I hear you, I am you—sort of)

Yellowface by R.F. Kuang

4.0

this book contains ugly feelings of a writer, intense jealousy that comes with it, insecurities and how much writing can lift you up and crushes you down simultaneously—but good grief, reading this from the perspective of a fucking nasty and psychotic white narrator is an experience, alright

Cinderella Addiction by Rikako Akiyoshi

3.0

I genuinely have no words. gila. gitu aja sih

I'm surprised on how slow it was in the beginning, then they get married, and suddenly it went all downhill after that in a relatively quick pace. objectively, compared to the rest of Akiyoshi's books, it's not as complete (?). other reviews mentioned how absurd the ending was and how Sakura wouldn't have done those things—in my opinion,

what Sakura did make sense a bit. she has completely ignore the entire world for her Cinderella story and she should only care about Kaori and her prince, makes sense, but I have to agree with the absurdity of the ending. it's all too sudden?