torchlab's reviews
129 reviews

The Odyssey by Homer

5.0

I understand odysseus.

Wittgenstein's Lolita by William Gay

4.0

What if there was a weird guy

Bacchae and Other Plays by Euripides

Scariest force fem scenario in literature ever maybe

Penance by Eliza Clark

4.5

Will and Testament by Vigdis Hjorth

4.5

Really really really really good

Come & Get It by Kiley Reid

4.0

Banger

Wave by Sonali Deraniyagala

4.5

Sensuous and devastating .. the attention to minute physical detail in this is somehow just as / maybe even more ?? heartbreaking than the sheer knowledge of the horrific loss that drives this book’s story. A lesser author would focus only on the enormity of their pain … Deraniyagala makes it realer by showing us its tininess

How I Won a Nobel Prize by Julius Taranto

3.5

Many moments in this made me laugh out loud. Didn’t quite stick the landing i felt but plenty of fun nonetheless!

The Idiot by Elif Batuman

5.0

Yup still one of the greatest books of the 21st century so far

In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado

5.0

This is still one of the best and most harrowing memoirs I've ever read