philip_bonanno's reviews
232 reviews

The Bird King by G. Willow Wilson

3.5

I wanted to like it a lot, but there were too many moments of clunky prose and signaled import for me to get invested. Also am highly skeptical of the books politics toward the end

The Deep by Rivers Solomon

3.5

It’s fine. It’s very heavy handed in a fable type of way but has some fun moments of writing

For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway

4.25

Idk dude like the writing style is nice but it’s just a war book. There’s very little in it except war bad, fascism bad, fighting for freedom good if we must. 

There are some cool things that he does stylistically with representing PTSD and sex, but other than that I find myself once again rather underwhelmed when it comes to Hemingway (especially when you put him in conversation with his contemporaries, who were writing much better books more consistently).

Ernest Hemingway by Verna Kale

4.25

Fantasies of Identification: Disability, Gender, Race by Ellen Samuels

5.0

One of my favorite academic books ever

Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex" by Judith Butler

5.0

This book has many thoughts and is delightful to read

Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others by Sara Ahmed

4.5

Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement by Ashley Shew

3.0

Aberrations in Black: Toward a Queer of Color Critique by Roderick A. Ferguson

4.25

There’s a very real chance I’m not smart enough to read this book

Words of Radiance by Brandon Sanderson

4.5

Great twist at the end. I feel like he gets too connected to his characters and can’t kill them though