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Happening by Annie Ernaux
i don't feel entitled to rate even as a story such a personal and vulnerable experience, but i am grateful to Annie for sharing it; i think the narrative is raw enough to let me breathe without neglecting the heaviness of the subject and (find a lot of importance in the parenthesis as a meeting place of the young and the wiser Annie).
Paradise Kiss: 20th Anniversary Edition by Ai Yazawa
2.5
i have too many thoughts but they're as messy as this story ðŸ˜ðŸ˜ðŸ˜
the drawing style and fashion elements are a 5/5 without a doubt but... the relationships protrayed here..... oh! the way i love mikawo and yukari's friendship :')))) [the only thing worth saving here]
my girls deserved better, bye.
(let's burn george and arashi, please. i despide them)
the drawing style and fashion elements are a 5/5 without a doubt but... the relationships protrayed here..... oh! the way i love mikawo and yukari's friendship :')))) [the only thing worth saving here]
my girls deserved better, bye.
(let's burn george and arashi, please. i despide them)
A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
4.0
I thoroughly enjoyed the narrative aspect, maybe the audiobook had an important role in this. While not everything stated here lived enough to arrive to our times I think the central thesis of this work are still very much walking with us along the streets, which is to say: a shame (and one that angers). On other hand the focus on these topics left others outside yet the delivery of the desired message is good, even with this lack (which should not be ignored by the reader).
While I liked Woolf's witty and 'voice' I also came across comments of her use of racist therms, and indeed, there were words that caught my attention but english not being my first language and my ignorance over the history of this language failed to show this to me while reading, if I have noticed I think I'd have enjoyed it less.
While I liked Woolf's witty and 'voice' I also came across comments of her use of racist therms, and indeed, there were words that caught my attention but english not being my first language and my ignorance over the history of this language failed to show this to me while reading, if I have noticed I think I'd have enjoyed it less.
The Hatred of Poetry by Ben Lerner
4.0
this is a book i know i'll revisit.
while not agreeing with everything that lerner exhibits i cannot deny the stars in my eyes that shone all through the idea of a thought [dream] being the actual poem and the distances between it and the tangibility that language provides, even now chills run trough my spine as an avid lover of words and souls.
i would say there are a handful of ambivalent takes and although i don't exactly catalogue this essay as presumptuous i would say it dives too deep into takes that (funny enough for his own author) are taken as universal by the individual who wrote them.
summing up the central thesis of this book i can see lerner going "damn poems, they ruined Poetry (with capital P)" [lol]
while not agreeing with everything that lerner exhibits i cannot deny the stars in my eyes that shone all through the idea of a thought [dream] being the actual poem and the distances between it and the tangibility that language provides, even now chills run trough my spine as an avid lover of words and souls.
i would say there are a handful of ambivalent takes and although i don't exactly catalogue this essay as presumptuous i would say it dives too deep into takes that (funny enough for his own author) are taken as universal by the individual who wrote them.
summing up the central thesis of this book i can see lerner going "damn poems, they ruined Poetry (with capital P)" [lol]
Boy Parts by Eliza Clark
3.0
I could compare this to a lot of things but i'll rather let it stand by it's own.
I kinda was waiting for something different maybe worse maybe not but this was very insane nevertheless. the constant use of culture and the language makes me feel this book won't stay for too long (as in years) because of how rooted it is in a niche culture, which i always consider a dangeroud shot because it's time is counted; out of this, i would say that the way some topics are covered and some characters are presented, both in a dull way and going for the wow factor are directly linked to our main character and her quality as an unreliable narrator which makes her edgy-ness more intriguing to the reader.
the last pages with the discussion of her mark in the world as something else beside a beautiful woman was one of the best developed topics (althought kind of late), out of it many of the themes found here could have been taken in more interesting directions or expanded in better and deeper ways.
anyway, how are they still alive after consuming all that!?
I kinda was waiting for something different maybe worse maybe not but this was very insane nevertheless. the constant use of culture and the language makes me feel this book won't stay for too long (as in years) because of how rooted it is in a niche culture, which i always consider a dangeroud shot because it's time is counted; out of this, i would say that the way some topics are covered and some characters are presented, both in a dull way and going for the wow factor are directly linked to our main character and her quality as an unreliable narrator which makes her edgy-ness more intriguing to the reader.
the last pages with the discussion of her mark in the world as something else beside a beautiful woman was one of the best developed topics (althought kind of late), out of it many of the themes found here could have been taken in more interesting directions or expanded in better and deeper ways.
anyway, how are they still alive after consuming all that!?
All About Love: New Visions by bell hooks
3.75
even though there were things that i disagreed with and found the binarity excessive, there are many teachings in this book that everyone should get and most of the discussion about sexism in the views of love is important to address.
sometimes reading this felt like a punch in the guts, like opening your eyes to a bright light; but it also felt endless at times and not necessarily in a good way.
anyway, i think bell hooks would have loved dÃa de muertos ♡
sometimes reading this felt like a punch in the guts, like opening your eyes to a bright light; but it also felt endless at times and not necessarily in a good way.
anyway, i think bell hooks would have loved dÃa de muertos ♡
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
The ambivalence of this work had me in love, during the first third I even thought that it would become one of my favorite books. Although Kundera has a great ability to create characters and minds, he also has the ability to let me fall when I thought I was flying, and the sexism of this book cannot be overlooked. I had no problem with the presentation of any of the themes and although I have seen complaints that "nothing happens here" the truth is that everything happens, it moves you inside and shakes ideas left and right but the treatment of female characters shows that the author's wisdom did not reach all spheres.
The love lasted less than what some characters here had and I ended up mad, congratulations though, I've never been this dissapointed.
The love lasted less than what some characters here had and I ended up mad, congratulations though, I've never been this dissapointed.
A Field Guide to Roadside Wildflowers At Full Speed by Chris Helzer
informative
lighthearted
relaxing
medium-paced
4.0
very impressionistic. monet, pissarro and helzer got together to capture life in movement and made me love invasive species (sorry nature).