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skunkcabbagebooks's Reviews (56)
Just didn't vibe with the writing style. A lot of telling and not much showing.
funny
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
N/A
A fun, twisty plot. I love an alternate history. The small flashes of new characters and moments and links that come along in the "Dreams" sections are so effective overall once you get to the big reveal at the end, but I did find myself wanting some of those flashes to be expanded out more which made it hard to get immersed in the story.
emotional
funny
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
This book made me feel seen in a lot of ways and I don't know how I feel about that. I always really enjoy Austin's writing, she's funny and vulnerable.
Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet: Ghosts and Monsters of the Anthropocene
Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, Heather Anne Swanson, Nils Bubandt, Elaine Gan
It stretched my brain in a very satisfying and useful way
emotional
funny
hopeful
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Bertino writes strange books about strange people and I love them all very much. I kept stopping during the final pages because I wasn't ready to say goodbye to the protagonist yet.
hopeful
informative
reflective
medium-paced
Totally hit my spot as a book that explores our relationships to nature through more personal stories. I think I expected this to be more of a linear memoir - I was hoping to dig more into his experiences in school, research, and his interactions with birds via his work because that's always the most fascinating to me. Overall, absolutely would recommend to anyone thinking about how they fit into the natural world.
challenging
emotional
inspiring
reflective
medium-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:
Complicated
This is very much a contender for my favorite book of the year. It pulled me in immediately and I held my breath through the last two chapters. I love a book that meditates on land, nature, our place in it, and our obligations to it.
emotional
funny
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
This almost felt like multiple related books. The first half of the book felt a bit sluggish, but I'm glad I kept going because I got completely immersed in the second half. After 600 pages of slower, more complicated character development, the book suddenly shifts into a propulsive ending where the individual characters, who we have previously only seen from their own lonely perspectives, suddenly crash together. There were multiple chapters of this book I read with my hand over my mouth because the tension really just refused to break. I'm really looking forward to discussing this one with others.
funny
mysterious
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
I'm a big fan of this new surge of translations we're getting from female authors from Japan. This book was really fun. It takes you seamlessly between different, almost stand alone characters and their relationships with work, their partners, and the way that gender roles permeate their work and domestic lives.
funny
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I wasn't immediately sold on this one - the character felt too obvious and the voice too strong. But I very quickly settled into the story and couldn't put it down. We love fiction that simultaneously calls out our culture's obsession with work and the ways that masculinity is tied up in capitalism.