the sisters brothers: cowboy... enjoyed this one :) quite an easy read + warm/morris kind of yaoiful? i liked the protags voice/view pt and the relationship btwn the two main chars... bwahh the bonds of brotherhood... theyre terrible ppl but i was endeared nonetheless 4/5

story of your life & others: rly rly liked this actually... my personal favs were 72 letters & hell is the absence of god (plus the book's namesake). i read exhalation on its own too & enjoyed that so i might pick up that collection later... rly fun ideas but sometimes the ending is a bit hmmm 4.5/5

we won with that

NOT this book going "this person changed the admin pw on their modem?! this is so shocking and extremely rare-" i did this in highschool like what 😭😭😭??? what r u talking about JDIFDKKFKDDKG

read malum d's sequel igni f and i think i liked it more if only bc the MCs didn't come off quite as immature? plot-wise maybe i was more interested in this but char/rel wise it was still a bit whatever to me... ultimately it was like. fine. more enjoyable? well the ending was kind of fun 3/5

. also i read keira's barbarian duet which i maybe enjoyed more than i should have (laughing) like okay maybe i DO have bad taste but so what. getting my little joys from incredibly tropey romance books. whateverrr

also on book 5 of murderbot and i think i can confidently say that i do like it :-)

strange & stubborn endurance: the thing is i really liked the prose here & thought it was really well written. but it didn't hit the mark for me plot/relationship-wise which is such a shame? i think it tried to bite off more than it could chew... might pick up the sequel but tbh im not compelled 3/5

monstrous: the LI's here are NOT monstrous at ALL they're basically just guys. go give me nothing. i just didnt care for these stories but i kept seeing ppl hype up book 5 so i was like oh okay i'll push thru... and i get there and DNF'd bc its so tedious. i do not think this series is for me. 1.5/5

starting the murderbot diaries and enjoying it so far bc i like the protagonist :-) so cutieful. my shy murderbotty... finished book 1 and will make an opinion once i finish the rest... in the meantime i want to read more yaoi...

project hail mary: i rly liked the plot but this protag is just so painfully white man gary stu 😭 i didnt mind the science bits but there was a lot of suspending my belief when it came to the language aspects. also hes weirdly like. tuned in to race. i was not the target audience. 2.5/5

simon snow: finished book one but likely wont continue; it was fine but i felt it lacked a bit of emotional depth 3/5
bro & the beast: er no comment on this. did i finish all 7 books. yes. were they good. no. but i like isekai. this series compelled me like am addict but is objectively rly bad 2.5/5

chúc mừng năm mới kharrel!!! :-)

only this beautiful moment: i liked this... offered a diff but still relevant perspective from my usual reads + i liked the intergenerational storyline & how their stories ended up woven together. compelling but some parts were kind of corny (lol) kind of wish it was a tiny bit more fleshed out? 4/5

oh and i also read the little prince (finally) its so cute........ the way i cried reading the ending JKSFHJKSDFHK like erm. what da hell...🥴

my ratings are all over the place bc i feel like. okay for my yaoi books the standards are WAY lower. if i was reading it as a literary piece they'd all be 2 stars max. but theyre kind of like yummy tasty braindead junkfood to me :) its fine if theyre not well constructed. but i wish they were

currently reading only this beautiful moment at oomfs recc... 1/3rd of the way thru and enjoying it so far bc i like reading from an unfamiliar perspective. except moud is a bit too like. this is how an old person thinks a liberal queer teen acts/speaks and it kinda just brings me out of the story

normal people - look i GET its the style i just dont think it enhanced my reading experience at all but whatever. rooney writes dialogue well & in a very compelling way but i just did NOT care about the characters or whatever the hell they were going through... they pissed me off so bad 2.5/5

okay back to like. non yaoi books. except not really.
fahrenheit 451 - topical & also my friend was like beatty x montag toxic yaoi & i was like what kind of deadbeat fujo am i that i never considered that. also i really liked montag. so babygirl. really enjoyed this book actually LOL 4/5

malum discordiae: might pick up the sequel (?) but i'm not rly compelled bcs the writing/"banter" was SO juvenile omfg. this was recc'd as 'dark academia' IT WAS NOT!!!! i think it suffered from too many side characters+pacing issues. the plot/setting was interesting but the resolution was ass 3/5