niuniuyz's reviews
62 reviews

Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

hopeful lighthearted relaxing fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.5

Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart

challenging dark emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning by Cathy Park Hong

emotional funny medium-paced

4.0

How to Kill a City: Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood by P.E. Moskowitz

emotional hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced

3.75

Night by Elie Wiesel

dark emotional inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent by Eduardo Galeano
Did not finish book. Stopped at 41%.

This book is amazing and clearly very well researched, it is also long and miserable and my tiny brain can only take so much economics.

Yellowface by R.F. Kuang

funny reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

I really like the part about how writers exploit the trauma in their own lives and the lives of people around them for inspiration. A few months ago I remember telling a friend (a poet) about a family friend who lives in an abusive household, and a while later after searching my friend's name, I found a poem she published about that exact thing. She would use of some of our most vulnurable conversations and memories and turn them into content for the world to consume, and I don't hold it against her, when I write, I do the same thing. But it also makes a lot of the interactions in our lives seem less genuine, when (both of us) take advantage of pain that's real and raw and ugly (and often unresolved), and transform it for the sake of making something beautiful.

Completely unrelated, it's so silly and entitled when untalented cis het white people complain about "reverse racism" for everything that doesn't go the way they want it to.

Revolutionary Suicide by Huey P. Newton

hopeful informative inspiring fast-paced

4.0

The Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism by Naoki Higashida

emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective relaxing sad medium-paced

4.5

"I think that people with autism are  born outside the regime of civilization... I think that as a result of all the killings in the world and the selfish planet-wrecking that humanity has committed, a deep sense of crisis exists" it's so telling and so accurate how he calls civilization a regime, despite this book originally intending to teach people how to treat autistic kids, this book outlines how flawed and exclusionary capitalist society is especially in our views of time management and mental illness. Despite not having autism I can relate to this book and the feeiling of helplessness, infantilization, self hatred and in the last quote, climate depression that it describes.

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

medium-paced

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

3.0

Karl Marx x Vladimir Lenin a romcom