Some of this is good, a lot of it is annoying

A few years ago my book club picked this and I thought the first few pages were boring and didn‘t read it. Then last month my new book club picked it and i decided to try again. It‘s fine.

My very first audiobook, I‘m still on the fence about “counting” it, but it was pretty good. I probably won‘t do many more but they‘re fun. Hard to focus.

girl power

i love how many of the goodreads reviews are like “I hated this, it was gross” it was gross. But being a person is gross!

I enjoyed a lot of this but i really wouldn‘t call it “good”

Epigraph just knocked the wind out me

Cathy and Hareton

Decent story, irritating narrator

Read this in three days, it‘s addicting.

Pick, pick, pick, pick, loved this so much. Couldn‘t put it down.

This must be what it means to be an animal, to look at another and say, I am so much that other thing that we are part of one another. Here is my skin. Here is yours.

💖 Tries to do a lot, does a lot of it well, but the plot is messy in some places

I definitely want to read more Woodson. There‘s a slight twist at the end that was risky and I found it a little odd, but her characters are fascinating, and the voice of this novel is so distinct. I read this in like two days.

Sometimes going insane is actually a really valid reaction to the shitty way people treat you

Heartbreaking + as good as everyone says it is. Wish I had read this before I saw her last year.

Bound towards and bound by.

This got me. Multi-genre, images, graphs, fictionalized imaginings and quotes from 100+ year-old articles. Personal history is also the history of a people.

Heavy

I actually really like a lot of this but i thought it was slightly too slow. It sucks to be an enemy of the state but sometimes there‘s nothing else to be.

i wouldn‘t say i‘m Kingsolver-pilled but this was kinda fire… May or may not pick up another 👁️👁️

The writer and his partner were annoying and toxic and I don‘t relate at all to wanting to live in the past. The 1890s seem unattractive to me (plumbing, racism, etc) and they are so constantly irresponsible and wasteful in service of this obsession. Some parts are fine but tbh this book pissed me off

very typical pick for my book club. It‘s fine! I had lucy dacus stuck in my head the whole time, real ones know why

If you read the copy with the pictures in the middle, wait to look at them / read the captions until you finish, they really should be at the end (but I‘m guessing it‘s a printing limitation). This is good, I wasn‘t amazed but I liked the story. It took me a long time to finish.

Good info, pretty dated

Much to think about

These girls need therapy

too real!

very sad. It is hard to remember we must care for those who have nothing else, because we also must care for ourselves.
My 36th book of 2022. Meeting my goal right at the buzzer. 🎉

I don‘t think I really enjoy TJR‘s writing at all but I‘ve read so much of this universe she‘s spun that now I feel invested. I always find her dialogue corny. I think this is the one of hers I‘ve been least interested in. But a lot of people like it so good for her

This took a long time to get through because it is a lot of history (really cool history tho). It‘s inspiring, tho it‘s hard to imagine these kinds of radical actions not getting squashed today (tho I shouldn‘t discount the amazing work people are doing right now). A great Haymarket purchase and won‘t be my last.

Definitely a cool collection.

This has convinced me of what many have told me before - that Le Guin was a genius

Definitely a quick one. Really beautiful.

This was fine but just made me want to re-read The Lightning Thief which is definitely way better

i understand why people cared about this but i do not

Quick, not bad

I have some issues and I think this would have had to have been a much longer book to resolve them. But i liked it. It‘s very sad.

🥲

Disappointed in the dialogue again. A lot of this reads like it‘s a fan fic ripped from ao3, like, really really bad. I enjoyed a lot of it but god, I rolled my eyes a lot. My relationship with TJR‘s work complicates further.

A lot of this is good, a lot of it is..Trite? Narcissistic? I think this is a study on the psychological terror of life during the Reagan admin - not politically, but culturally. A great case for the form of memoir, an interesting voice, but she‘s so annoying. And I could be missing context 30 years later, but so much of what she says about the details of her life just don‘t make sense.

Have had this one at home for a while, so excited to start it.

I was dragging my feet a little here, some parts take place in the early 1900s and could be a little dry (to me). But it comes together so beautifully. I would say this sets out to do something similar to Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi, and does it in a really different way. Overall recommend.

This wasn‘t about what I thought it was going to be about. It‘s good.

I liked this, I love Black Star and Talib. I think he‘s smart and this book shares a lot of cool stories and unique perspectives. But it was missing a little oomph.

increíble

Sad as hell.

“Pick” doesn‘t feel strong enough because I actually consider this a foundational text for understanding how to love and be loved in a U.S. culture which is so anti-love and anti-community. This is one I will revisit a lot, I think.

enjoyed most of it, usually ferrante has super powerful endings and movements within and i just kinda felt like this didn‘t go anywhere. but i liked it

Sad as hell. Real.