mariamwebster's reviews
127 reviews

God's Silence by Franz Wright

5.0

Summer of Night by Dan Simmons

4.0

it’s a perfect horror story for me,
it has everything i love about horror. the author is exceptionally good at building suspense and luring the reader in. ate it upppp

Брама Європи. Історія України від скіфських воєн до незалежності by Serhii Plokhy, Сергій Плохій

5.0

Serhii Plokhy stop making me cry over the history of my country challenge (i fail every time)

A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing by Eimear McBride

3.5

the idea of writing a book in this fractured, half-formed way is interesting and definitely can be effective, but i don’t know if i liked it. it became tedious real fast 

The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History by Serhii Plokhy

5.0

proud to be Ukrainian.

The Girls by Emma Cline

4.75

not enough people are talking about this book!! this is an insanely insightful story about girlhood wrapped in a horrifying gripping plot. i don’t have any words to des it’s the way it made me feel

Я перетворююсь… by Володимир Вакуленко-К.

5.0

моторошно, обурливо, болісно. обовʼязково до прочитання.

Woman, Eating by Claire Kohda

3.5

i feel conflicted about it, maybe because i gulped it down in two days and didn’t give myself time to savor this book, but i am left with a feeling that something was missing from it, that it’s lacking some depth and feels more like a rough sketch than a finished work? 
i loved the discussion of art, identity, race, relationships with our parents etc. just wished there was more of it, and less ben:)

Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

3.75

made me cry!!! which i didn’t expect at all, since the middle of it made me incredibly bored and annoyed 

Penance by Eliza Clark

5.0

true crime is truly abhorrent and so-so insidious, it’s crazy that it’s a genre at all. my fucking god this book is so well-written and thought-provoking