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Fatale by Jean-Patrick Manchette
4.0
Read this in two days - love that. Last 3 chapters are super exciting. Love how quick and to the point it was without revealing too much at all really. I don't read crime novels really because they've never interested me, but this was a treat. Hope my book club group actually read this one!
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
4.0
glad i picked this up, I forgot how sweet and sad it was. in very few words and with such grace sandra cisneros is able to capture the experience of growing up latina dealing with machismo and sexism and angst and just wanting to get away. happy I read again as an adult. i forgot how poetic this story was
Either/Or by Elif Batuman
4.0
i love selin. she’s so funny and interesting. i love her commitment (whether she means to do it or not) to question anything and everything. the way she talks about men and her sexual experiences is so funny and rings so true. all the most “natural” things are so weird and alien. i honestly could read a 3rd book about selins life. we could be friends in real life.
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion by Jia Tolentino
4.0
great book, I listened to a lot of it actually with jia reading it so that was great. i think the best stories were the I in Internet, Pure Heroines, and We Come From Old Virginia. My least favorite was Ecstasy. She's got a great voice in writing and in real life. I tore through this thing very quickly. It's easy to read and captures a lot of the things i've been feeling (particularly about the internet and feminism) but havent been able to articulate fully. jia does that for me and I am grateful. the essays do feel like internet writing at times which makes sense because she's an internet writer. sometimes she would just kind of explain plots or stories or real life happenings for too long and just barely touched on analysis. i think that's my main complaint with this. but would definitely recommend to friends. if ur a friend reading this, look for this at ur local library!
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
5.0
wow. wow wow wow. really incredible. god my heart is heavy. I loved how this is written, I love reading the flashes of these womens lives and piecing together the mothers and daughters perspectives. it's horrible that this is just the way life goes, that your mother holds you inside her and you hold her inside you forever and yet you're doomed to not know each other until its too late. that theres this disconnect that stems from being so close so close it's almost incomprehensible until i guess maybe you become a mother yourself if you ever do. i really loved all these stories, i especially enjoyed reading the mothers stories. I love how the mothers just knew their daughters so intimately, and how the daughters wanted to reject that but knew they couldnt because it really is just a way of life a force of nature. of course this book brought up a lot of feelings about my mother and grandmother who immigrated to this country and gave up lots and lots for me and my siblings. i feel guilty and sad but also incredibly honored that i get to carry their stories and strength through me. Amy Tan just did a phenomenal job writing the complexities of mother/daughter relationships how hard and confusing they can be. I will keep this book with me for a very long time (once i return this copy to paloma and buy a new one).
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? by Mark Fisher
4.0
most of it went right over my head but fisher has a very clear grasp of how capitalism is rooted in every nearly aspect of our lives from social to our jobs from our relationships with media and all of it. and it’s sad! reading this made me sad because it really does feel like there’s no alternative. it’s hard to believe I can build a new world. but that’s not the point of this book and I appreciated that fisher ended on a hopeful note. happy I read and will reread when i understand more.
What We Talk about When We Talk about Love by Raymond Carver
4.0
couldn’t sleep last night so I picked it up. it was almost too sad for me in the night but as I finished it up now I’m pretty amazed. I have my feelings about short stories, I feel like I usually gravitate towards novels but this collections packs a punch in so few words and so few pages. It amazes me how Carver can set a scene so quickly and put me in the headspace of these sad confused characters. my favorites were Gazebo and Everything Stuck To Him
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
4.0
I liked this a lot !! It was so funny and interesting and imaginative. Why am I lowkey a Bokononist.. Very excited to read more Vonnegut, this feels like exactly what I needed rn.