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Endpapers by Jennifer Savran Kelly
2.5
I wanted to like this book, but the dialogue felt so stiff and unrealistic. The “mystery” ended up being very straightforward and boring. You could’ve removed it and the book still would’ve worked. And I didn’t like that the main character created an art piece *and also* wrote an article that both heavily relied on other people to take those projects over the finish line. And the fight with Jae just kinda felt… there? And then gone? It didn’t feel real. I was bored through a lot of it.
Fight Night by Miriam Toews
5.0
Content Warnings
Minor: Death, Infidelity, Medical content, Death of parent, Pregnancy
Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson
2.5
Loved the “friend of Dorothy’s” reference
HATED the misgendering of someone even after the author wrote a scene to clarify their pronouns (why do that??????)
Until Tender by Sam Slupski
4.0
“I remind myself if I were to put myself into a different world, my mother will still be my mother.”
Damn!!!
Damn!!!
Content Warnings
Minor: Chronic illness, Mental illness, Self harm, Kidnapping, Grief, Abortion, Death of parent, Pandemic/Epidemic
Persephone's Garden by Glynnis Fawkes
Did not finish book. Stopped at 0%.
Did not finish book. Stopped at 0%.
Love the art style, but I’m learning I don’t care about books on motherhood / children
The Green Hour: A Natural History of Home by Alison Townsend
emotional
inspiring
relaxing
slow-paced
3.75
“Just this year I learned that there is a word for the sound of wind in leaves — psithurism. How many different melodies have been played on the leaves of this old oak over the decades, ranging from the gentle, surf-like rise and fall I hear now, to the rougher, rain-driven blasts of thunderstorms that make the leaves stick together in a sodden mass, to the winter gales that snatch the few rattling leaves from the branches, crumpling them together like wet tissue.”
“No matter how far I travel from that New England summer, I carry the pond balanced inside me, a bowl of bright water.”
“After living for many years in a desert place, the river sounded like a voice I'd once known well but had not heard for a very long time. I recognized it right away, as I have always believed I might recognize my mother's voice were I ever to hear it aloud again.”
“But deer are my totem animal, my soul creature, my secret self, I cannot be objective about them. In my next life I want to be born with a constellation of white flowers on my back. I want to lie curled in a hollow of sweet prairie grass, scentless and trusting, waiting for my mother to return and claim me.”
“The window is open on frog-song and Canada goose-murmur, crane-call and coyote-yip, their voices stitching the air together in an invisible quilt of sound I pull over my shoulders, everything connected to everything else as it always has been, as it will still be, come tomorrow, come morning.”
“No matter how far I travel from that New England summer, I carry the pond balanced inside me, a bowl of bright water.”
“After living for many years in a desert place, the river sounded like a voice I'd once known well but had not heard for a very long time. I recognized it right away, as I have always believed I might recognize my mother's voice were I ever to hear it aloud again.”
“But deer are my totem animal, my soul creature, my secret self, I cannot be objective about them. In my next life I want to be born with a constellation of white flowers on my back. I want to lie curled in a hollow of sweet prairie grass, scentless and trusting, waiting for my mother to return and claim me.”
“The window is open on frog-song and Canada goose-murmur, crane-call and coyote-yip, their voices stitching the air together in an invisible quilt of sound I pull over my shoulders, everything connected to everything else as it always has been, as it will still be, come tomorrow, come morning.”
“All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.”
- Isak Dinesen
Content Warnings
Minor: Animal death, Death of parent
Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets, & Advice for Living Your Best Life by Ali Wong
Did not finish book.
Did not finish book.
Gross baby / body stuff. Descriptions of food that’s tough for a veg to hear about lol