mirrortower's reviews
169 reviews

Just Kids by Patti Smith

4.25

Last Summer in the City by Gianfranco Calligarich

3.75

The Cost of Living by Deborah Levy

3.75

The Apple In the Dark by Clarice Lispector

3.5

there were pieces and passages that i REALLY liked. i understand lispector's sentiment about this novel being her most conventionally structured, but even so, at times it felt like a chore to get through, which is never something i want from my favorite author. towards the end, though, i started to like it more.

The End of Loneliness by Benedict Wells

3.5

Cleanness by Garth Greenwell

3.75

I loved the second part but I found the Gospodar and Little Saint chapters difficult to get through.

I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death by Maggie O'Farrell

fast-paced

3.0

Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann

3.5

a bit slow to start but once it really got into it, it was easy to understand why it had been so popular -- though it didn't go exactly as i expected. i thought there was going to be more total devastation 

Theorem by Pier Paolo Pasolini

2.75

Either/Or by Elif Batuman

4.25

much like how i felt the idiot was very similar to my life, i related more to selin in this book -- she was also less of a doormat, which was good both for her and for my self image