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The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

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adventurous dark emotional tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

my high school latin teacher would be devastated to find out the extent to which my classical mythology knowledge has degraded. please forgive me, svetlana 

lol sometimes i forget that already knowing exactly what happens can make a story even MORE stressful & heartwrenching. this characterization of achilles was some good horror. the words sure are pretty though.
U Up? by Catie Disabato

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adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious sad medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

*lmao warning: this book has frequent reclamations of the d-slur, if that's a thing of concern for you*
 
as a “young” “creative” “living in LA,” this book felt gratuitously & almost ingratiatingly familiar. at times, the hyper-specificity in the tiniest of details felt over-the-top & laid on too thickly, falling somewhere between tongue-in-cheek easter egg & parody of itself, but nevertheless made me smile & say "ha, i do that!" too many times to count. thank u, catie disabato, for fueling my raging individuality complex. i feel incredibly seen & lovingly roasted. i do think this will read as extremely dated in the future, but in the most endearing way possible.

after more than a year of quar, it made my heart heave the most wistful sigh & i felt… homesick? even though i still live in the same place, it's only in the most literal physical sense.

overall fun spooky lil mystery about ghosts (both literal & metaphorical) & friendships & boundaries
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Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams

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emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

before i got to the real Climax, i was sure that my review was just going to be:
"1.) all i could think about was how they kept using work email for personal messages; and 2.) grateful that this book stopped me from downloading t*nder again out of boredom"

it took a while but eventually the book went from just okay to actually pretty good & now i would feel bad leaving a review with only those two thoughts. 
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Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman

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medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

hm. almost DNF'd too many times to count. i would say it's decidedly not a """feel good""" book— for the most part, i thought it was a frustrating & poorly-handled depiction of PTSD?? it threw around quite a bit of trigger warning worthy content (TW//
rape, emotional + physical abuse, suicidal ideation
) SO casually? writing was also lackluster imo.
 
with that said, i am nothing if not a tender sop who is incapable of consuming media without projecting so there were parts at the end that still made me Feel Things.

reese witherspoon ur shootin 0 for 2 on book club picks for me 😪
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Memorial by Bryan Washington

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challenging emotional hopeful reflective tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

a difficult read in the sense that everyone was so real & so human that it was frustrating to see firsthand the hesitation & the disconnect between people's thoughts/words/actions with a clarity that can only come from distance, and only be able to watch each person's part of the story try to unfold with all of the snags and tears.
 
anyways make therapy accessible & de-stigmatized for everyone challenge. something something intergenerational trauma & intimacy/attachment issues. i should call my dad.
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Milk Fed by Melissa Broder

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challenging dark emotional funny fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

once again reading melissa broder & saying "that's free therapy, baby!"
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O Fallen Angel by Kate Zambreno, Lidia Yuknavitch

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challenging dark funny tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

do girls who were too into ellen hopkins as children grow up into women obsessed with kate zambreno? it’s me i’m girls [obligatory disclaimer: ellen hopkins is Very Bad but i unfortunately cannot deny the chokehold she had on my developing brain 😔]
 
goddamn. i got like, 3 lines in before i needed to take a break to try to contain my growing need to let forth a screech most inhuman. which is to say: kate zambreno did an excellent job of capturing the exact feeling i get every time i think about the francis bacon triptych that inspired this book. 
Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh

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adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

hm. reading eileen's internal monologue & just thinking to myself "oh? oh no." much to think about.

pacing was weird, though. felt uneven & backloaded. the initial twist was fun, but the resolution felt... anticlimactic? 
I Might Regret This: Essays, Drawings, Vulnerabilities, and Other Stuff by Abbi Jacobson

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funny lighthearted reflective fast-paced

3.0

over the course of me trying to finish this book, my library e-loan expired 3 times & i kept having to place a hold to borrow it again

it's alright? idk maybe i would have cared more about this if i liked broad city more
A Certain Hunger by Chelsea G. Summers

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adventurous dark funny mysterious fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

jesus christ chelsea g summers knows how to USE WORDS! 
 
the first thing that comes to mind when trying to describe dorothy daniels' voice: as decadent, exquisite & biting as the food she writes about. absolutely fitting. imagery so evocative, so visceral it made my skin crawl out of disgust at times but in the most delicious way. 
 
absolute icon status: when dorothy said 
“eat the rich” about eating ass, and then killed a man, cut off his ass & literally ate it as a roast.