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Margery Kempe by Robert Glück

5.0

I am finding Margery very hard to review but Glück's prose was so undeniable.... I might return to it and to this review in the future but 5 stars is a rating that feels very right at the moment. A book that passed over me like water 

I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki by Baek Se-hee

3.0

I want to write something here because I know future me would appreciate it but honestly there isn't much of anything to put here for me really. It was fine! It certainly was a book that I listened to. I think the author's willingness to be vulnerable is very impressive and very important for the many many people that have resonated with her writing, but unfortunately I wasn't one of those people - for me it felt quite surface level in its revelations and I found myself just not very compelled.

The Atlas Complex by Olivie Blake
Did not finish book. Stopped at 38%.

Man I was fucking bored. How did the writing get worse I don't care for navel gazing man just tell me the fucking STORY

Three Births by K. Patrick

5.0

I've talked to 4 different people about pick up truck sex. Who watches who? Seasons and their cycles, a documentation or time lapse of a plant as it grows through the months. Yeah

Private Rites by Julia Armfield

5.0

The Mephistophelian deal Julia has struck with entities beyond our reach to achieve this level of penmanship truly makes one wonder. What the fuck was that. I need to bite someone's head off. I need to love in a way that gets dirt under my fingernails the way this shit spoke to me. None of this makes sense and yet fuck you entirely 

The Essential Dykes to Watch Out for by Alison Bechdel

5.0

Is a year and a bit a normal amount of time to spend on a book? I have spent the year talking about it too. Putting it down, picking it up. I don't think I need to write down my thoughts about it because they've permeated so much of my daily life it becomes redundant. I love dykes I love community even when people within it are imperfect. Not much more to say. I'm glad it exists. I'm glad it documents like a very unaware historian. I'm glad for lesbians and their complexity.

Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo

4.0

I have a lot of thoughts about this one I fear not one of them particularly coherent! The way discourse within it is approached dates this book so so strongly which makes it a very interesting reading experience in 2024 and I'm sure that would be the case even more so if I read it years after. The real life and online landscape of everything has shifted so much in recent years it feels weird to read something so Of a Time. She approaches her audience with the desire to create bridges of understanding but the political shifts of the past 5 years take this stance from idealistic and noble to something else I can't quite place! Still, I really enjoyed it.

The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin

4.5

You read this and get steeped in the story's themes and moments like a teabag in hot water

Other People's Clothes by Calla Henkel

2.75

Hm. The social media listicle yellow page drama hellscape of the late naughts was very well captured. The writing style was easy to read. But other than that I'm not sure what drew me in this story, it had so many loose threads it was constantly running to tie up and failing. The ending was incredibly rushed I'm not sure if there was a different vision in mind originally. Forever on the cob the way this was so corny and trying to be edgy at the same time. I dunno not bad not unenjoyable but also not much of much if that makes sense 

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson

3.75

I am actually more fond of the book than the rating might suggest, her turn of phrase n metaphor especially near the end were very good but in all and especially compared to "Why be happy" that I listened to a while back it felt a bit unfinished and disjointed. I enjoyed it though!