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117 reviews

When McKinsey Comes to Town: The Hidden Influence of the World's Most Powerful Consulting Firm by Michael Forsythe, Walt Bogdanich

5.0

The War Below: Lithium, Copper, and the Global Battle to Power Our Lives by Ernest Scheyder

5.0

The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth's Resources by Javier Blas, Jack Farchy

5.0

Breasts and Eggs by Mieko Kawakami

challenging reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

Kawakami is artful!

Our Women on the Ground: Essays by Arab Women Reporting from the Arab World by Zahra Hankir

adventurous challenging hopeful informative medium-paced

5.0

The Pisces by Melissa Broder

3.0

Broder, you fumbled the ball, but still a feral book for feral women <3

First the good:
- Sappho Appreciation
- Bukowski Slander
- love addiction group (chef's kiss)
- the semi-plot twist?


Now the bad:
This could have been so wacky, poignant, and beautiful. But, it wasn't. Ending felt very forced, really did a bad job setting up the idea that love between women (familial and friendship) can help cure the longing love addiction the MC is feeling? Also, the general ick feeling of the sexy times were so gross at points I just skipped them. I felt like I was committing bestiality by merely reading them. Also all the weird obsession with butt stuff and shit was a bit more refined in Milk Fed.

Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur

2.75

Really underwhelming......
The poetry was mid and the art was mid. Why is this so popular????????

Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto by Chuck Klosterman

2.5

Gave me white man who only has Infinite Jest, American Psycho, and Bukowski on his bookshelf vibes...
That is a bad thing btw...... 

Grief is the Thing with Feathers by Max Porter

3.75

1. I hate Ted Hughes.
2. What the fuck just happened?
3. Not a book to read if you have a raging fear of crows.

Intimations by Zadie Smith

4.75

Zadie Smith is an icon. I thought the entire collection was solid, but 'Contempt as a Virus' was masterful!