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129 reviews
Shubeik Lubeik by Deena Mohamed
4.5
Beautiful. A true embodiment of what makes comics an art form. Every detail on every page is there for a reason.
The Lions of Al-Rassan by Guy Gavriel Kay
4.0
A specter is haunting the Iberian Peninsula: the specter of bisexual throuples
The Mothers by Brit Bennett
2.5
Definitely an MFA Thesis Book which isn’t necessarily a bad thing but it did mean that i could predict almost every plot event and emotional beat from miles away
Mrs. Bridge by Evan S. Connell
4.5
In a just world this book would be considered an American classic on the level of Gatsby or Catcher or something
Last Days by Brian Evenson
4.0
Deliriously disturbing, laced with shocks of humor. I love the briskness of Brian Evenson’s prose. He moves through scenes and conversations with knifelike efficiency.
Solid State: The Story of Abbey Road and the End of the Beatles by Kenneth Womack, Alan Parsons
4.0
Great audiobook to listen to in a moving van with your father over the course of three days
A Horse at Night: On Writing by Amina Cain
3.0
This book was about a lot of other things besides just writing, not all of which I felt needed or deserved an examination as thorough as what Cain does here. Also I think many of my artistic/literary values are just fundamentally different from hers (IDK why she dislikes plot so much?) but still it was cool to read a clearly extremely intelligent person thinking through topics she cares about a lot.
The Possibility of Life: Science, Imagination, and Our Quest for Kinship in the Cosmos by Jaime Green
3.5
Cool and thought-provoking but pretty inconclusive, which I suppose kind of comes with the territory when you’re writing about extraterrestrial life in the 2020s