katehoward's reviews
163 reviews

Terminal Boredom by Izumi Suzuki

4.0

You Are What You Watch: How Movies and TV Affect Everything by Walter P. Hickey

slow-paced

2.0

I should have read the synopsis more clearly as I was hoping for something about how movies shape us interact with culture but this focused more on the physical response when we engage with media. I would also note that it focuses on a wide variety of media, there were some weird tangents I hated and were a drag to get through. Why the section on WWE?

The formatting was terrible. The graphs and illustrations were strangely placed in the middle of sentences requiring you to flip back and forth between pages. The graphs were labeled pretty poorly and often didn’t pertain to the information being discussed. The choice of having it double column was bad, and it would just randomly switch formatting styles. It made this already data heavy book even more cumbersome to read.

Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay

4.0

Girls Can Kiss Now: Essays by Jill Gutowitz
Did not finish book. Stopped at 6%.

Not for me, I found the writing annoying and grating. I don’t think there will be anything of substance in the book.

The Seven Year Slip by Ashley Poston

4.0

Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma by Claire Dederer

slow-paced

2.0

Overall I found it pointless and just about her own opinions instead of an actual dissection of art vs the artist. Maybe I should have read the synopsis more thoroughly before reading the book. The author really lost me in the second half, and I found it hard to take what she was saying seriously.

Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld

2.0

Just Like Mother by Anne Heltzel

medium-paced

3.5

I was definitely hooked throughout even though most of it was predictable.

Really liked the dread of the ending.

Pretty Baby: A Memoir by Chris Belcher

fast-paced

4.0

Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus

4.0