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Sedating Elaine by Dawn Winter

3.0

i loved the concept but i felt like it rly took a steady trend downwards through the whole thing. why is it always mommy issues with lesbians. 

i felt like i couldn’t enjoy a big chunk of it bc i was just like ??? why didn’t you have her parents pay you to break up w her ???? then u have the money and her mom is happy ur broken up 

Moby Dick by Herman Melville

5.0

the great american novel. 

Y/N by Esther Yi

4.5

i loved this and i wish more people would read it so i could understand more about it. i would take an english class on this book. it was so surreal and written so beautifully and was so obsessive. she started to lose me a little in the second half but i liked O and other characters that were introduced later so it made up for it. 

The Unabomber Manifesto: Industrial Society and Its Future by Theodore John Kaczynski

read for class - fucking crazy. why was he cookin lowkey. 
that being said i need my fridge 

Mother for Dinner by Shalom Auslander

5.0

i loved it. loved the premise. loved the execution. found it very funny. 

The Devil Makes Three by Tori Bovalino
Did not finish book. Stopped at 4%.

i’m so far from interested

Didion and Babitz by Lili Anolik
Did not finish book. Stopped at 5%.

don’t give me a biased narrator freak

Babel: An Arcane History by R.F. Kuang

4.75

this kinda crushed me. by the time i got to the end i was like how did we get here. people say that it was obvious foreshadowing but like no it was just character development??? if a character seems weird and doesn’t agree ab certain things… why would they just change their mind two years later ? 

this book must’ve been so heavily researched it was amazing.

Ramy and Victoire they could never make me hate you. the fact that the book is Babel: Or The Necessity of Violence. amazing

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

2.5

hated it. would’ve liked if we just had the character set up and world building without John. i feel like John and Linda made for a different book? idk. felt racist and mid to me. love the cover though! 

Thunderhead by Neal Shusterman
Did not finish book. Stopped at 68%.

this had so much potential. i was so excited after the first and it was so good. but this was too long too complicated too many side plots i didn’t get invested in. i feel like we lost the plot. tragedy