uvm's reviews
23 reviews

Spike Lee by Chronicle Books

hopeful informative inspiring reflective relaxing

5.0

He's a genius and this book is a terrific artifact. 

Confessions by Kanae Minato

challenging dark mysterious reflective tense

5.0

When We Were Animals by Joshua Gaylord

slow-paced

0.25

Highly disturbing novel. The main character is raped repeatedly as are other young women in the book. The misogyny in this book is gratuitous. That a religious male high school teacher wrote this book is beyond sickening. 

Rifqa by Mohammed El-Kurd

dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad tense

4.5

Lost in the City by Edward P. Jones

challenging emotional informative reflective sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character

The Women of Brewster Place by Gloria Naylor

5.0

Phenomenal and timeless. Go read this classic. 
I'm now eager to read Linden Hills. 

The Waves by Virginia Woolf

A tedious, inventive, almost incomprehensible masterpiece. Woolf was a genius. Who am I to assign her stars? 

A for Anonymous: How a Mysterious Hacker Collective Transformed the World by David Kushner

informative fast-paced

3.25

This graphic novel was somewhat informative, but the ending was very unsatisfying. 

The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

3.5

Alphabetical Diaries by Sheila Heti

adventurous challenging dark funny hopeful lighthearted reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

This book was brilliant, boring, inventive, thought-provoking, and sometimes funny. You kind of have to let yourself experience it without too many expectations.