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Men Without Women: Stories by Haruki Murakami
3.0
A very accessible compilation of short stories with some classic Murakami-isms.
Playing to the Gallery: Helping Contemporary Art in its Struggle to Be Understood by Grayson Perry
4.0
A succinct and easily digestible little book about the art world, exactly what is needed since so much art criticism is written in flouncy, classist art-speak.
I Never Said I Loved You by Rhik Samadder
5.0
I've never read a memoir of someone who is still alive, let alone someone who I knew nothing about beforehand. This is a truly saddening book at it's core, yet the classic combination of tragedy and comedy is very skilfully balanced. It never lingers on one or the other for too long, which in my mind is just how work about these kinds of topics should be. I breezed through this and it really touched me in a way I wasn't expecting. I think everyone should give this a read, regardless to whether you've experienced mental health issues before or not.
The Power of Five by Elisabetta Gnone, Elizabeth Lenhard
I can't even describe how obsessed I was with this series when I was younger. Finding a stack of 20 of these books whilst tidying brought me legitimate joy, however lame that is. I always loved the opening and closing comic inserts. It really is a more westernised Sailor Moon magical girl concept in retrospect. There's a thousand other serious things on my to-read list at the minute, but I kind of want to break into these again as a bit of light-hearted respite.
Manson: The Life and Times of Charles Manson by Jeff Guinn
4.0
Unbelievably exhaustive to the point where it reads like fiction.