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305 reviews
The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
5.0
Rebecca Makkai 🤝 Kristin Hannah
Rebecca Makkai 🤝 Hanya Yanagihara
This book was so heart wrenching and immersive, much like a KH book. I want to be friends with all the characters and I want to know how everyone’s story ends. If you liked A Little Life, you’ll love this.
Also, fuck Reagan. The AIDS epidemic could have been handled so much better and so many lives could have been saved.
Rebecca Makkai 🤝 Hanya Yanagihara
This book was so heart wrenching and immersive, much like a KH book. I want to be friends with all the characters and I want to know how everyone’s story ends. If you liked A Little Life, you’ll love this.
Also, fuck Reagan. The AIDS epidemic could have been handled so much better and so many lives could have been saved.
Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason
4.75
The fact that I keep gravitating towards and highly rating books about mental illness is probably an indicator of some larger issue I should address (go to therapy??). I think I’ll just continue to read these books for right now. I know that they don’t name Martha’s diagnosis, but I’m leaning towards Schizophrenia, anyone else? Like Adelaide by Genevieve Wheeler, it’s nice to see that such a life altering diagnosis can have a happy ending.
House of Glass by Sarah Pekkanen
2.0
I only finished this book because it was for a book club. So many random details and late additions to the plot that have zero relevance to the overall story. Who cares about her ex-mother-in-law’s homemade ziti?? The audiobook narration made the inner thoughts sound so campy and dramatic and everything was over-explained. Also, the random queer baiting thrown in at the end?? The main character sounded so whiny the way she equated her childhood trauma to Rose’s, thank god she went back to therapy at the end, she really needed it. Very juvenile writing for an already published author.