khanyareads's reviews
120 reviews

Whiskey Tender by Deborah Jackson Taffa

challenging emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.0

Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings: Poems by Joy Harjo

challenging emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

4.25

The Black Agenda: Bold Solutions for a Broken System by Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman
Did not finish book. Stopped at 10%.

The narrations were giving ai

Schopenhauer's Porcupines: Intimacy and Its Dilemmas: Five Stories of Psychotherapy by Deborah Anna Luepnitz

challenging emotional funny hopeful informative reflective sad tense fast-paced

3.5

My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh

reflective tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston
Did not finish book. Stopped at 17%.

Too slow paced and tedious to get through/get a grasp of. Also wasn’t a huge fan of the narrator and i get the feeling i wouldn’t like reading this in print either. Might pick up some other time, maybe?

A Certain Hunger by Chelsea G. Summers

adventurous challenging dark funny informative reflective tense fast-paced

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

5.0

Anarchy, State, and Utopia by Robert Nozick
Did not finish book. Stopped at 11%.

Could tell it was right-libertarian from the first sentence of the preface; even wrote “is this some libertarian bs?” in the margins as a joke. Was immediately about to dnf it because I don’t find such ideas compelling at all. But, I was struck by his assertion that “even the reader unconvinced by my arguments should find that , in the process of maintaining and supporting his view, he has clarified and deepened it… intellectual honesty demands that, occasionally at least, we go out of our way to confront strong arguments opposed to our views”. And I like to think that I am nothing if not intellectually honest (and curious) so I decided to engage. I just couldn’t. I had too many wtf moments reading only ten percent of this to even want to hate-read it or even skim it like I do academic articles. It, in fact, turned out to be some libertarian bs. 

The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

dark emotional mysterious sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

The Medium is the Massage: An Inventory of Effects by Marshall McLuhan, Quentin Fiore

informative slow-paced

3.5