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196 reviews

Diving, Falling by Kylie Mirmohamadi

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3.0

turns out there is an unlikeable female main character i cannot fuck with and it’s leila whittaker. i hated her voice, her pretension, her rampant unchecked privilege and the way she thought of and spoke to her kids. and yet somehow i made it to the end of this book and thought of MONSTERS by claire dederer and it all came together so clearly. 
“Prisons Make Us Safer”: And 20 Other Myths about Mass Incarceration by Victoria Law

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5.0

such a clear and rational response to the prison industrial complex, and ways we can seek better outcomes for all. a great resource to send to those in our lives clinging on to old, damaging ideas about policing and prisons. 
Big Swiss by Jen Beagin

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4.0

novels about unlikeable female main characters with untreated mental illness are my catnip. 
Abolition. Feminism. Now. by Erica Meiners, Gina Dent, Beth Richie, Angela Y. Davis

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5.0

i learnt so much from this book, and found the case studies so useful to contextualising the cause. will be recommending widely. 
Come & Get It by Kiley Reid

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3.0

i really enjoyed this — i think reid has an incredible way of exploring race, class and coming of age in such an approachable way — but the number of characters ultimately made the novel a little muddied for me 
Liars by Sarah Manguso

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4.0

a deeply domestic and austere study of abuse and coercion

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Everything I Know About Love by Dolly Alderton

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2.0

this was fine? some of the longer reflections were quite moving, but the lists and recipes were cloying and unnecessary for mine 
ME by Kenzaburō Ōe, Tomoyuki Hoshino, Charles De Wolf

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Did not finish book. Stopped at 19%.
just wasn’t reaching for this. i wanted a stronger pace to it. 
The Diver's Clothes Lie Empty by Vendela Vida

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3.0

an entertaining thriller and great palate cleanser, but i doubt it will stay with me 
American Mermaid by Julia Langbein

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2.0

i enjoyed the hollywood satire here but the novel-within-the-novel really dragged for me, especially in the last 100 pages, and didn’t satisfy me as either magical realism or cli-fi.