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Our Wives Under The Sea by Julia Armfield
5.0
Annihilation but for lesbians (this film Annihilation, not the book). Obviously loved it.
Manhunt by Gretchen Felker-Martin
4.0
The bit about queer safe houses being hit hard by lack of brain meds
Reality is Not What it Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity by Carlo Rovelli
5.0
Reading this book genuinely changed my life.
Lapvona by Ottessa Moshfegh
3.0
Mixed feelings about this one. There are some interesting underpinnings about faith and power, but neither is developed enough for it to become particularly gripping. I enjoyed Ina’s parts the most, and would have liked her magic to have been more utilised in the story. I liked the addition of Grigor towards the end, but he seems hastily written in. I would have much preferred to read scenes of Ina and Grigor than endless reams of Marek, the unceasing descriptions of whose ugliness became so dull as to be enraging. This book is relentlessly cruel, at times often in a tick box checking kind of way: incest: check, rape: check, cannibalism: check, pedophilia: check, so many eyeballs: check. To me, that kind of shock writing is banal.
Little Weirds by Jenny Slate
5.0
Jesus Chris. If I could have known how much I needed and wanted this book, I would have screamed it from the roof tops. Once I have slept (it is so late because I couldn’t stop reading it) maybe I’ll write a better review. But for now I’m so glad this book exists, I’m so glad I have in it my hands, I’m so glad to be a living, loving, reading, feeling thing.
Fen by Daisy Johnson
5.0
When I’m feeling most optimistic about my abilities, this is the kind of book I imagine writing. I loved it.
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics by Carlo Rovelli
5.0
Learning about quantum physics has done more for my mental health than any self help book ever could. Carlo Rovelli, I owe you so much.