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Mostly Harmless by Douglas Adams
3.0
series review:
after the trilogy, the series really fell off. 4 bored me and felt really off subject somehow. 5 is bleak as shit and hopeless. i liked the trilogy though
after the trilogy, the series really fell off. 4 bored me and felt really off subject somehow. 5 is bleak as shit and hopeless. i liked the trilogy though
Notes from a Dead House by Fyodor Dostoevsky
4.25
a good reminder that i still need to read angela davis
The Border of Paradise by Esmé Weijun Wang
3.5
first: called it that marty is gay i'm always right
anyway. no idea what to think about this book. i picked it up because i read esmé weijun wang's greywolf press nonfiction prize-winning essay collection about schizophrenia last year (shoutout to yas!) and it was an immediate 5 stars, then learned she'd written a novel. her prose is gorgeous.
this novel is so bleak. daisy and william vs gillian's actions as a whole feel a little racist because daisy and william are the only poc in this book but weijun wang is also taiwanese so i'm going to give her the benefit the doubt. beyond that: jesus. obvious tws for incest and suicide, as well as self harm and racism.
kind of reminded me of 100 years of solitude, in its messages of isolation and cycles/repetition. this feels much more bleak/hopeless/etc than 100 years of solitude did, though.
Our Share of Night by Mariana Enríquez
4.0
very heavy usage of chekhov's gun, though not particularly a bad thing. slow at times but overall interesting. kind of felt hopeless after reading it but also not in a bad way? didn't scare me at all but i feel like it wasn't supposed to. i've said this a couple times but if i had to describe our share of night using other media: it's like if hollow knight met life of pi met house of leaves, with a touch of coming of age. an ambitious story! argentine politics meshed well with it, i felt a little off-kilter with the inclusion of the aids crisis but i think that has more to do with reading about the aids crisis leaving me feeling desolate. a solid novel, and one i would recommend.