Detransition, Baby — Torrey Peters
This was a really smart and acute book with some truly, truly awful people in a really fascinating way. My main qualm is the attempt at intersectionality to include POC, it could have been done with more nuance or care.
This was a really smart and acute book with some truly, truly awful people in a really fascinating way. My main qualm is the attempt at intersectionality to include POC, it could have been done with more nuance or care.
September 28, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Detransition, Baby — Torrey Peters
This was a really smart and acute book with some truly, truly awful people in a really fascinating way. My main qualm is the attempt at intersectionality to include POC, it could have been done with more nuance or care.
This was a really smart and acute book with some truly, truly awful people in a really fascinating way. My main qualm is the attempt at intersectionality to include POC, it could have been done with more nuance or care.
All Quiet on the Western Front — Erich Maria Remarque
Yeah, this was an incredible book. Amen.
Yeah, this was an incredible book. Amen.
September 19, 2025 at 9:43 PM
All Quiet on the Western Front — Erich Maria Remarque
Yeah, this was an incredible book. Amen.
Yeah, this was an incredible book. Amen.
Station Eleven — Emily St. John Mandel
This book is such an exercise in mediocrity. It lacks a sense of identity, and focuses too much on trying to weave this larger narrative while not giving the reader that many means to get attached or drawn to any of the characters.
This book is such an exercise in mediocrity. It lacks a sense of identity, and focuses too much on trying to weave this larger narrative while not giving the reader that many means to get attached or drawn to any of the characters.
September 12, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Station Eleven — Emily St. John Mandel
This book is such an exercise in mediocrity. It lacks a sense of identity, and focuses too much on trying to weave this larger narrative while not giving the reader that many means to get attached or drawn to any of the characters.
This book is such an exercise in mediocrity. It lacks a sense of identity, and focuses too much on trying to weave this larger narrative while not giving the reader that many means to get attached or drawn to any of the characters.
that it once again circles back around to the book's major weakness: lack of intimacy and general estrangement. It might overall be the point, but somehow it consequently weakens the book on top of it.
The only thing I found marginally funny is that The Perfect And Kind died from a bj. #1 way to die
The only thing I found marginally funny is that The Perfect And Kind died from a bj. #1 way to die
August 23, 2025 at 11:59 PM
that it once again circles back around to the book's major weakness: lack of intimacy and general estrangement. It might overall be the point, but somehow it consequently weakens the book on top of it.
The only thing I found marginally funny is that The Perfect And Kind died from a bj. #1 way to die
The only thing I found marginally funny is that The Perfect And Kind died from a bj. #1 way to die
was kind of ass. It felt like an unnecessary element thrown into the last 3 chapters of the book, as if it's trying to finally give the book some direction with the idea of cultural diaspora, estrangement, and lack of identity, but it feels so lacking in execution by injecting a new personality(6/7)
August 23, 2025 at 11:59 PM
was kind of ass. It felt like an unnecessary element thrown into the last 3 chapters of the book, as if it's trying to finally give the book some direction with the idea of cultural diaspora, estrangement, and lack of identity, but it feels so lacking in execution by injecting a new personality(6/7)
world in any other form than "it just is what it is". Unfortunately as it stands, Fetter's relationship with his mother is by far the most interesting thing that happened in this whole book, and it simply leaves everything else looking pale and sallow as a consequence. Also, the ending of the (5/7)
August 23, 2025 at 11:59 PM
world in any other form than "it just is what it is". Unfortunately as it stands, Fetter's relationship with his mother is by far the most interesting thing that happened in this whole book, and it simply leaves everything else looking pale and sallow as a consequence. Also, the ending of the (5/7)
simply stews in punishment for both his own complacency and his action. The book fails to develop any intimacy between the forms other than quick flashes of Fetter's guilt and his sexual impulses, and as a consequence, it alienates the reader from really taking in any of the characters or the (4/7)
August 23, 2025 at 11:59 PM
simply stews in punishment for both his own complacency and his action. The book fails to develop any intimacy between the forms other than quick flashes of Fetter's guilt and his sexual impulses, and as a consequence, it alienates the reader from really taking in any of the characters or the (4/7)
rapid intensity that it fails to really stick anything that it might be have to say about the caste system and the systematic structures by leaving you and the protagonist in the dark. As a consequence, you experience Fetter being shuttled around by other powers and people as a tool and then (3/7)
August 23, 2025 at 11:59 PM
rapid intensity that it fails to really stick anything that it might be have to say about the caste system and the systematic structures by leaving you and the protagonist in the dark. As a consequence, you experience Fetter being shuttled around by other powers and people as a tool and then (3/7)
yet somehow manages to weaken its writing on both fronts. It's polished to an immaculate degree, with a marvelous sociopolitical landscape to beholden through the eyes of the narrator, that ends up being explored from the top to the bottom, but in doing so you get shuttled around with such (2/7)
August 23, 2025 at 11:59 PM
yet somehow manages to weaken its writing on both fronts. It's polished to an immaculate degree, with a marvelous sociopolitical landscape to beholden through the eyes of the narrator, that ends up being explored from the top to the bottom, but in doing so you get shuttled around with such (2/7)
The Saint of Bright Doors — Vajra Chandrasekera
I've been toiling with this book on and off for the last god knows how long and can finally say that I've finished it.
This book is, as I have iterated to my friends before, a book that makes an attempt to marry the fantasy and literary genre, and(1/7)
I've been toiling with this book on and off for the last god knows how long and can finally say that I've finished it.
This book is, as I have iterated to my friends before, a book that makes an attempt to marry the fantasy and literary genre, and(1/7)
August 23, 2025 at 11:59 PM
The Saint of Bright Doors — Vajra Chandrasekera
I've been toiling with this book on and off for the last god knows how long and can finally say that I've finished it.
This book is, as I have iterated to my friends before, a book that makes an attempt to marry the fantasy and literary genre, and(1/7)
I've been toiling with this book on and off for the last god knows how long and can finally say that I've finished it.
This book is, as I have iterated to my friends before, a book that makes an attempt to marry the fantasy and literary genre, and(1/7)
Strange Houses — Uketsu
I agree with the populace that it's the weaker book. Overall the delivery and the construct wasn't as well stitched together as Strange Pictures. The portion with the superstition took me too far out of the believability as well but. That could just be me.
I agree with the populace that it's the weaker book. Overall the delivery and the construct wasn't as well stitched together as Strange Pictures. The portion with the superstition took me too far out of the believability as well but. That could just be me.
July 20, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Strange Houses — Uketsu
I agree with the populace that it's the weaker book. Overall the delivery and the construct wasn't as well stitched together as Strange Pictures. The portion with the superstition took me too far out of the believability as well but. That could just be me.
I agree with the populace that it's the weaker book. Overall the delivery and the construct wasn't as well stitched together as Strange Pictures. The portion with the superstition took me too far out of the believability as well but. That could just be me.
Go Tell It On the Mountain — James Baldwin
I just noticed I consumed three titles with mountain in the name back to back.
This book gave me such a bad book hangover. It felt like getting retraumatized by my childhood all over again—and in that effect, it did it really well. Good job Baldwin, damn.
I just noticed I consumed three titles with mountain in the name back to back.
This book gave me such a bad book hangover. It felt like getting retraumatized by my childhood all over again—and in that effect, it did it really well. Good job Baldwin, damn.
July 14, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Go Tell It On the Mountain — James Baldwin
I just noticed I consumed three titles with mountain in the name back to back.
This book gave me such a bad book hangover. It felt like getting retraumatized by my childhood all over again—and in that effect, it did it really well. Good job Baldwin, damn.
I just noticed I consumed three titles with mountain in the name back to back.
This book gave me such a bad book hangover. It felt like getting retraumatized by my childhood all over again—and in that effect, it did it really well. Good job Baldwin, damn.
Hawk Mountain — Conner Habib
Dude. :(((
All things considered, pretty good book. It's def not quite what I expected, and doesn't land in the literary sphere, but it's still evocative and thoughtful nonetheless.
Dude. :(((
All things considered, pretty good book. It's def not quite what I expected, and doesn't land in the literary sphere, but it's still evocative and thoughtful nonetheless.
July 7, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Hawk Mountain — Conner Habib
Dude. :(((
All things considered, pretty good book. It's def not quite what I expected, and doesn't land in the literary sphere, but it's still evocative and thoughtful nonetheless.
Dude. :(((
All things considered, pretty good book. It's def not quite what I expected, and doesn't land in the literary sphere, but it's still evocative and thoughtful nonetheless.
Brokeback Mountain — Ang Lee
:((( dude.
:((( dude.
June 26, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Brokeback Mountain — Ang Lee
:((( dude.
:((( dude.
Strange Pictures — Uketsu
It's more like a puzzle than an actual book, but it was also really interesting and engaging. The motives mixed with the mystery were fascinatingly done and well crafted. A very easy read and relatively straight forward to read too.
It's more like a puzzle than an actual book, but it was also really interesting and engaging. The motives mixed with the mystery were fascinatingly done and well crafted. A very easy read and relatively straight forward to read too.
June 20, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Strange Pictures — Uketsu
It's more like a puzzle than an actual book, but it was also really interesting and engaging. The motives mixed with the mystery were fascinatingly done and well crafted. A very easy read and relatively straight forward to read too.
It's more like a puzzle than an actual book, but it was also really interesting and engaging. The motives mixed with the mystery were fascinatingly done and well crafted. A very easy read and relatively straight forward to read too.
Why Don't We Just Kill the Kid in the Omelas Hole — Isabel J. Kim
Super short but it's nice to finally read something that delivers its point effectively and actually sticks to its guns thank god. Also pretty funny, which is a bonus
Super short but it's nice to finally read something that delivers its point effectively and actually sticks to its guns thank god. Also pretty funny, which is a bonus
June 20, 2025 at 4:37 AM
Why Don't We Just Kill the Kid in the Omelas Hole — Isabel J. Kim
Super short but it's nice to finally read something that delivers its point effectively and actually sticks to its guns thank god. Also pretty funny, which is a bonus
Super short but it's nice to finally read something that delivers its point effectively and actually sticks to its guns thank god. Also pretty funny, which is a bonus
On the Calculation of Volume I — Solvej Balle
Sometimes you read a book that has a cool idea and then is executed with such mediocrity that it actually causes you to change your ratings of other books lower in retrospect. This unfortunately has just both raised and lowered my standards for books.
Sometimes you read a book that has a cool idea and then is executed with such mediocrity that it actually causes you to change your ratings of other books lower in retrospect. This unfortunately has just both raised and lowered my standards for books.
June 17, 2025 at 1:56 AM
On the Calculation of Volume I — Solvej Balle
Sometimes you read a book that has a cool idea and then is executed with such mediocrity that it actually causes you to change your ratings of other books lower in retrospect. This unfortunately has just both raised and lowered my standards for books.
Sometimes you read a book that has a cool idea and then is executed with such mediocrity that it actually causes you to change your ratings of other books lower in retrospect. This unfortunately has just both raised and lowered my standards for books.
(cont.) you're reminded you're eating god's most mediocre sandwich. Fortunately though, it was also a very self indulgent read for other reasons. I can see it working for people, but it was also so thoroughly littered with fanfictionesque yaoi qualities I can't take it that seriously
June 11, 2025 at 4:04 AM
(cont.) you're reminded you're eating god's most mediocre sandwich. Fortunately though, it was also a very self indulgent read for other reasons. I can see it working for people, but it was also so thoroughly littered with fanfictionesque yaoi qualities I can't take it that seriously
In Memoriam — Alice Winn
Honestly, I rated it higher than I should have given that it was, quite literally, a dogshit sandwich. It starts alright, ends alright, but the middle is a load of fanfiction turd with some hints of interesting flavor. Like wow, is that a hint of saffron? Then as a reader
Honestly, I rated it higher than I should have given that it was, quite literally, a dogshit sandwich. It starts alright, ends alright, but the middle is a load of fanfiction turd with some hints of interesting flavor. Like wow, is that a hint of saffron? Then as a reader
June 11, 2025 at 4:04 AM
In Memoriam — Alice Winn
Honestly, I rated it higher than I should have given that it was, quite literally, a dogshit sandwich. It starts alright, ends alright, but the middle is a load of fanfiction turd with some hints of interesting flavor. Like wow, is that a hint of saffron? Then as a reader
Honestly, I rated it higher than I should have given that it was, quite literally, a dogshit sandwich. It starts alright, ends alright, but the middle is a load of fanfiction turd with some hints of interesting flavor. Like wow, is that a hint of saffron? Then as a reader
(cont.) but honestly it was also kind of mad fucked up. But also the lady rambling about God at the end kind of sent me.
June 3, 2025 at 3:44 AM
(cont.) but honestly it was also kind of mad fucked up. But also the lady rambling about God at the end kind of sent me.
The Road — Cormac McCarthy
I have a lot of loose thoughts about this book, specifically about the devices related to the ideas around fire, shelter, and people, and how each element serves a dual nature to represent both life and danger, and how each shifts based on their contexts. Great book
I have a lot of loose thoughts about this book, specifically about the devices related to the ideas around fire, shelter, and people, and how each element serves a dual nature to represent both life and danger, and how each shifts based on their contexts. Great book
June 3, 2025 at 3:44 AM
The Road — Cormac McCarthy
I have a lot of loose thoughts about this book, specifically about the devices related to the ideas around fire, shelter, and people, and how each element serves a dual nature to represent both life and danger, and how each shifts based on their contexts. Great book
I have a lot of loose thoughts about this book, specifically about the devices related to the ideas around fire, shelter, and people, and how each element serves a dual nature to represent both life and danger, and how each shifts based on their contexts. Great book
(cont.) everything causing Willy to spiral is more so a result of systematic failure is really fascinating. Good book
May 29, 2025 at 4:23 AM
(cont.) everything causing Willy to spiral is more so a result of systematic failure is really fascinating. Good book
Death of a Salesman — Arthur Miller
This depressing ass play. The cleverness of never articulating what Willy sells as a salesman paralleling how America sells the American dream but it's never something actually tangible and demonstrates the individualistic thought of personal failure when
This depressing ass play. The cleverness of never articulating what Willy sells as a salesman paralleling how America sells the American dream but it's never something actually tangible and demonstrates the individualistic thought of personal failure when
May 29, 2025 at 4:23 AM
Death of a Salesman — Arthur Miller
This depressing ass play. The cleverness of never articulating what Willy sells as a salesman paralleling how America sells the American dream but it's never something actually tangible and demonstrates the individualistic thought of personal failure when
This depressing ass play. The cleverness of never articulating what Willy sells as a salesman paralleling how America sells the American dream but it's never something actually tangible and demonstrates the individualistic thought of personal failure when
The Librarianist — Patrick DeWitt
The book has this tendency to circumvent the actual point it's trying to communicate and moreso just drags you along a series of events that come out on the other end depressing and have you feeling bad for Bob. The middle section was just painful to read.
The book has this tendency to circumvent the actual point it's trying to communicate and moreso just drags you along a series of events that come out on the other end depressing and have you feeling bad for Bob. The middle section was just painful to read.
May 19, 2025 at 5:35 PM
The Librarianist — Patrick DeWitt
The book has this tendency to circumvent the actual point it's trying to communicate and moreso just drags you along a series of events that come out on the other end depressing and have you feeling bad for Bob. The middle section was just painful to read.
The book has this tendency to circumvent the actual point it's trying to communicate and moreso just drags you along a series of events that come out on the other end depressing and have you feeling bad for Bob. The middle section was just painful to read.