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The Rattled Bones by S.M. Parker

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

4.5

Lovely One by Ketanji Brown Jackson

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5.0

Ketanji's name fits her character perfectly 🩷
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

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5.0

This is one of my favorite books of all time and I try to re-read it every year. I love you, Kafka. I love you, Gregor. 
The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton

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

2.0

The only reason this book gets two stars instead of one is because I can tell the author did spent a lot of time working on most of the book. It's ambitious and part of me wants to like it, but it just misses the mark in the end. The ending felt like he just ran out of ideas?? It felt like a bad Black Mirror episode. There is no way in hell I would have read the entire book if I knew it would be that ending... On a side note, I don't usuall enjoy a male main character in fiction books, so, this one having one man as eight different men + all the other men characters was a little insufferable by the end. The few women characters there did appear in this book weren't even cool or fleshed out!!! Based on how he writes male characters, it's probably for the best that he didn't spend a bunch of time on the women characters actually.
 
I would also say that there were probably only three good solid plot twists in that entire seventeen hour audiobook!!! Woof. Also, why was the author like super fat phobic? Nah, not my thing.
 
I sounded actually insane trying to explain the plot to my coworker. I had to draw a character chart and that didn't even help... there were some cool concepts but the shitty half baked stuff kinda ruined it for me.

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Screaming on the Inside: The Unsustainability of American Motherhood by Jessica Grose

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emotional hopeful informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

"Rich is the man whose wife is dead and horse alive"

A great blend of history + the present. Overall, she did a good job at touching on the broad spectrum of race and class that further compounds women's struggles as mothers in the U.S. I think her chapters on the early days of the pandemic were easily the strongest in the book. Her discussion of Mormon mom influences was also good! (She even mentioned the ballerina farm, if you remember that big story that went viral earlier this year!)... Her discussion of mom guilt was the strongest continuous thread in this book. A very humanizing book.


Flowers of Fire: The Inside Story of South Korea's Feminist Movement and What It Means for Women's Rights Worldwide by Hawon Jung

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dark hopeful informative reflective tense medium-paced

4.75

An emotionally challenging read, but highly recommended to any woman that feels angry or hopeless right now. I believe that reading this is necessary more than ever with Trump being re-elected. (I'm glad that the book also discussed the homophonia and transphobia that still plagues the feminist movement.)

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