orbitingmars's reviews
30 reviews

Here and Queer: A Queer Girl's Guide to Life by Rowan Ellis

hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective fast-paced

3.0

Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe

adventurous emotional funny hopeful informative reflective fast-paced

4.0

Hell Followed with Us by Andrew Joseph White

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

Good Poems for Hard Times by Jennifer Michael Hecht, John Keats, Erica Funkhouser, W.H. Auden, Sharon Olds, E.E. Cummings, Kenneth Rexroth, Wendell Berry, Herman Melville, Hayden Carruth, Patricia Hampl, Carl Dennis, X.J. Kennedy, Carl Sandburg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, John Berryman, Fleur Adcock, Philip Booth, Howard Nemerov, Mary Oliver, Liesl Mueller, Rita Dove, Lawrence Raab, Maxine Kumin, Donald Hall, Robert Burns, Stephen Dunn, Stephen Dobyns, John Donne, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Garrison Keillor, Raymond Carver, Elizabeth Bishop, Hilaire Belloc, Kate Light, W.S. Merwin, Charles Bukowski, William Blake, Billy Collins, Thomas Hardy, Jane Kenyon, Noël Coward, Louis MacNeice, Emily Dickinson, Grace Paley, Virginia Hamilton Adair, Galway Kinnell, David Ignatow, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Jim Harrison, Robert Frost

medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? N/A
• Strong character development? N/A

2.0

Saving Daylight by Jim Harrison

fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? N/A

2.0

If I See You Again Tomorrow by Robbie Couch

adventurous emotional hopeful lighthearted reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur

medium-paced

2.0

Clancy Journal (Sacred Municipality of Dema - United Vialists) by Twenty One Pilots

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

Melissa by Alex Gino

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0

We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

hopeful informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

3.25

I don’t like how exclusionary of trans people this book is. I love the ideals shared but I wish trans people were included in them.