alijm's reviews
25 reviews
Play It as It Lays by Joan Didion
hard to read kind of perfect book. can’t imagine a man could ever understand it. Reading the forward talking about how some ppl read the book and never connect with maria. You know nothing you will never understand
Euphoria by Lily King
i feel like the whole time i was waiting for it to build into something else but i don’t know what else i wanted from it. really gorgeous sometimes though and oh the end did make me cry.. i loved bankson as a narrator
Popisho by Leone Ross
SOOO refreshing. Took me a second to get through but I absolutely loved it and it was so unlike anything else i've read. A lot of love in the story..I'm not really a fantasy girl but this was the perfect kind of fantasy for me. really beautiful.
Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion
i mean come on. a Joan classic.
"...one of the mixed blessings of being twenty and twenty-one and even twenty-three is the conviction that nothing like this, all evidence to the contrary notwithstanding, has ever happened to anyone before."
"...one of the mixed blessings of being twenty and twenty-one and even twenty-three is the conviction that nothing like this, all evidence to the contrary notwithstanding, has ever happened to anyone before."
Meet Me at the Museum by Anne Youngson
one of those books i just randomly plucked off the shelf at the library ha ha. I thought the letter format was fun and enjoyed it a lot. A reminder that it's never too late to put yourself first and a little bit of hope that maybe sometimes you need to just walk the tightrope and believe you will make it to the other side and then u will
The Crane Wife by CJ Hauser
absolutely devoured this one. and loved it so Very much. need to reread. CJ Hauser you are a delight 2 me
South of the Border, West of the Sun by Haruki Murakami
haruki murakami has serious damage about women but i keep reading everything anyways. His writing style just rocks. Nothing really happened in this one but i kind of liked that about it
The Little Friend by Donna Tartt
this book took me forever to finish but I'm so glad that I did. Really heavy thematically and dense with detail and storytelling. Extremely leonardo dicaprio pointing meme when the title feature/little friend reveal happened. Perfect book for those of us who love ambiguity. also i love books about childhood friendship. donna you will always be famous
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
i'm gonna be honest i'm going back and writing something about everything for the first time so I read this like 8months ago and I hardly remember it. like, not terrible but Why is this a modern classic