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This Is How You Lose the Time War by Max Gladstone, Amal El-Mohtar
The way they described their love for each other was something that I’ve never seen before. My god. This book was beautiful!
This Is How You Lose the Time War by Max Gladstone, Amal El-Mohtar
The way they described their love for each other was something that I’ve never seen before. My god. This book was beautiful!
This Is How You Lose the Time War by Max Gladstone, Amal El-Mohtar
The way they described their love for each other was something that I’ve never seen before. My god. This book was beautiful!
I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki by Baek Se-hee
I LOVE the title and like most people, that's what caught my attention. The formatting of the book was unexpected. I appreciated Baek's vulnerability with sharing different sessions with us, but I didn't expect most of the book being the dialogue from those sessions. Although we did get a glimpse into her mind through those conversations, I would of appreciated if the dialogue was between herself and the reader (me).
I related to many of Baek's experiences, but I'm personally in another area in my journey. Teenage and early 20s me would have loved to have this book. I do think around those ages we tend to think it's just feeling those feelings or we're over exaggerating, when that's not true.
Baek's psychiatrist seemed...very underwhelming in my opinion. I am not a professional but in many areas of the book I feel like they could've done/said more for Baek and in other areas I felt like they should've kept their comments to themselves. Like when they called Baek "childish", I felt like it was a bit too judgemental. Especially when before the psychiatrist said that Baek was being to harsh with herself and she focused too much on when they said she was like a "robot", if that's the case, why call her "childish"? I also corrected myself because I remembered that the book has been translated into English so maybe I missed the tone of what was said. I really appreciate that the psychiatrist got to share their thoughts and they admitting that there are some things they would've changed if they had the chance.
Overall this was a good read and great reminder to not be too hard on yourself, you're not alone, and it's okay to seek help when you need it.
I related to many of Baek's experiences, but I'm personally in another area in my journey. Teenage and early 20s me would have loved to have this book. I do think around those ages we tend to think it's just feeling those feelings or we're over exaggerating, when that's not true.
Baek's psychiatrist seemed...very underwhelming in my opinion. I am not a professional but in many areas of the book I feel like they could've done/said more for Baek and in other areas I felt like they should've kept their comments to themselves. Like when they called Baek "childish", I felt like it was a bit too judgemental. Especially when before the psychiatrist said that Baek was being to harsh with herself and she focused too much on when they said she was like a "robot", if that's the case, why call her "childish"? I also corrected myself because I remembered that the book has been translated into English so maybe I missed the tone of what was said. I really appreciate that the psychiatrist got to share their thoughts and they admitting that there are some things they would've changed if they had the chance.
Overall this was a good read and great reminder to not be too hard on yourself, you're not alone, and it's okay to seek help when you need it.
I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki by Baek Se-hee
I LOVE the title and like most people, that's what caught my attention. The formatting of the book was unexpected. I appreciated Baek's vulnerability with sharing different sessions with us, but I didn't expect most of the book being the dialogue from those sessions. Although we did get a glimpse into her mind through those conversations, I would of appreciated if the dialogue was between herself and the reader (me).
I related to many of Baek's experiences, but I'm personally in another area in my journey. Teenage and early 20s me would have loved to have this book. I do think around those ages we tend to think it's just feeling those feelings or we're over exaggerating, when that's not true.
Baek's psychiatrist seemed...very underwhelming in my opinion. I am not a professional but in many areas of the book I feel like they could've done/said more for Baek and in other areas I felt like they should've kept their comments to themselves. Like when they called Baek "childish", I felt like it was a bit too judgemental. Especially when before the psychiatrist said that Baek was being to harsh with herself and she focused too much on when they said she was like a "robot", if that's the case, why call her "childish"? I also corrected myself because I remembered that the book has been translated into English so maybe I missed the tone of what was said. I really appreciate that the psychiatrist got to share their thoughts and they admitting that there are some things they would've changed if they had the chance.
Overall this was a good read and great reminder to not be too hard on yourself, you're not alone, and it's okay to seek help when you need it.
I related to many of Baek's experiences, but I'm personally in another area in my journey. Teenage and early 20s me would have loved to have this book. I do think around those ages we tend to think it's just feeling those feelings or we're over exaggerating, when that's not true.
Baek's psychiatrist seemed...very underwhelming in my opinion. I am not a professional but in many areas of the book I feel like they could've done/said more for Baek and in other areas I felt like they should've kept their comments to themselves. Like when they called Baek "childish", I felt like it was a bit too judgemental. Especially when before the psychiatrist said that Baek was being to harsh with herself and she focused too much on when they said she was like a "robot", if that's the case, why call her "childish"? I also corrected myself because I remembered that the book has been translated into English so maybe I missed the tone of what was said. I really appreciate that the psychiatrist got to share their thoughts and they admitting that there are some things they would've changed if they had the chance.
Overall this was a good read and great reminder to not be too hard on yourself, you're not alone, and it's okay to seek help when you need it.
Crave by Tracy Wolff
Honestly this was better than I thought it’d be! I went into this knowing that it was gonna be another cliche high school vampire romance series. I needed to read something that was entertaining and didn’t require much mental labor. I enjoyed pointing out the similarities between Crave, Twilight and Harry Potter. Grace being so oblivious to Jaxon being a vampire or Flint being a dragon was hilarious to me, especially with everyone’s innuendos to that fact! And the fact that she was binging Legacies on Netflix made it even funnier to me. What was exhausting to me was how half of the 600 page book was just Grace not knowing anything. I was ready for her to figure it out already. Geesh. The Flint and Lia plot twists actually shocked me. I had a feeling Lia wasn’t trust worthy with her teas and shit, but I really believed Flint was trying to kill Grace for real and Lia just kept saving her. I’m actually looking forward to finishing the series.
Crave by Tracy Wolff
Honestly this was better than I thought it’d be! I went into this knowing that it was gonna be another cliche high school vampire romance series. I needed to read something that was entertaining and didn’t require much mental labor. I enjoyed pointing out the similarities between Crave, Twilight and Harry Potter. Grace being so oblivious to Jaxon being a vampire or Flint being a dragon was hilarious to me, especially with everyone’s innuendos to that fact! And the fact that she was binging Legacies on Netflix made it even funnier to me. What was exhausting to me was how half of the 600 page book was just Grace not knowing anything. I was ready for her to figure it out already. Geesh. The Flint and Lia plot twists actually shocked me. I had a feeling Lia wasn’t trust worthy with her teas and shit, but I really believed Flint was trying to kill Grace for real and Lia just kept saving her. I’m actually looking forward to finishing the series.
Rafe: A Buff Male Nanny by Rebekah Weatherspoon
This book has a hold on me. I always use it as a palette cleanser and when I need a nice and spicy pick me up.
Rafe by Rebekah Weatherspoon
This book has a hold on me. I always use it as a palette cleanser and when I need a nice and spicy pick me up.