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katrinblomquist's reviews
168 reviews
The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson
4.5
This took me a while to read but I'm glad I took my time because it's a layered, complex collection of thoughts, memories and theories that need to reverberate. I know I'm going to come back to this book and my notes about it.
Rocky Beach: Eine Interpretation. Graphic Novel. by Christopher Tauber, Hanna Wenzel
3.5
Interessantes Gedankenexperiment das leider nicht komplett zu Ende gedacht wurde. Die Zeichnungen sind aber beeindruckend schön.
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
4.5
One of the best books I read this year and it cam e at me without a warning. The friendship and love between the protagonists is seeping through the pages, they are all excellently flawed and human. I never expected to be so into a book about games and gamers and gaming and the second to last chapter was a bit of a drag for this reason. But it is a book that cleverly plays with storytelling in its different forms.
Pick me Girls by Sophie Passmann
1.0
Muss schön gemütlich sein in einer Welt, in der es nur MÄNNER und FRAUEN gibt und letztere sich die Aufmerksamkeit der ersteren leisten können. Komplett irrelevantes Buch.
Violeta by Isabel Allende
2.5
I didn't really feel why I should care for this woman. It's a fictionalised autobiography set in a fictionalised country with fictionalised political drama. Maybe I am being harsh but I think a "real" historical novel would have forgiven the lack of emotion, the lack of character development.
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
4.0
Beautiful, moving, sexy and full of queer joy. Did not care too much for the long battle scenes but loved the tender descriptions of the love between the two boys. Just like in Circe, which I read first, the protagonist Patroclus is an intimate, flawed, and insecure narrative voice that we follow through his life and beyond his death. Achilles is the tragic hero, doomed to eternal fame that he only achieves after he loses the one thing he loved in the world. The writing is juicy and magical again too.