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Tender by Beth Hetland

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challenging dark fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

this was NASTYYYYY like it was so visceral... i guess it accomplished its goal tho! i like body horror until i don't...
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Bog Bodies Uncovered: Solving Europe's Ancient Mystery by Miranda Aldhouse-Green

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informative reflective medium-paced

3.0

an interesting read but honestly could have benefitted from another pass of editing. informed my halloween costume this year (i was a bog body) and did tell me more about a topic i’ve been interested in since i was a kid, but it was a touch repetitive and also felt like mostly conjecture? a lot of speculation… although i guess that’s what archaeology is
American Cult by

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informative reflective sad fast-paced

4.0

interesting little anthology  i picked up to have something to read on the bus - really informative and interesting, and nice to see all the different art styles. heavily focused on the 60s, which makes sense, but i would have loved a few older cults! but i figured there wasn’t enough documentation of older cults. anyway good book i enjoyed it 
Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield

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challenging dark mysterious sad slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Loveable characters? No

2.75

sorry to all my lesbians but i did not like this book… it was slow and boring and i didn’t like the main characters much and the most interesting part was the ocean but we never got to really know about it or explore it further and i just felt it fell flat. i wanted to like it i really did but the writing style also felt tiring to me… i probably won’t be reading salt slow after this even though it was on my reading list. 
The Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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dark mysterious tense

5.0

forever my favorite short story. i could read it a million times.  occupied a place in my mind when i read it 5 years ago and hadn’t left since
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

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4.0

read this back in highschool and i wanted to add it to my reading history because i still think about it. truly an incredible book i should read more zora neal hurston. i will always remember the passage about internalized racism and the worship of false idols… some of the most hard hitting prose i’ve ever read
Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

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challenging dark funny sad tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.25

i wish i could have liked this book but i just didn’t… there was just something missing or some disconnect in the writing. the premise was interesting but it honestly didn’t feel like it went anywhere? i really liked the statistics and i can say parts of it were good, like how the separate stories entertained. simon j craft and hendrix young were probably my favorite perspectives because they felt more real. the two main characters…. idk. something wasn’t working and i hate to say it but it might have been the fact that the author is a man but they just felt so unreal and one dimensional even as he was clearly trying to write them as complex. anyway, not my favorite. also dragged on really long tbh… i really wanted to like it but i just wanted it to be over 
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The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century by Olga Ravn

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challenging funny mysterious tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

such a fun read - took me some time to get into it because it was so vague? but then i didn’t want to finish it so i stopped reading for a bit it was so good. sooooo descriptive and sensory, probably the most in a book i’ve read. imagery was insane and it was also unexpectedly very funny! i will be thinking about this one for a while…

edit: upon second thought a month after finishing this book i’m upping it to a 5. that shit was crazy and i’m still thinking about it 
Kindred by Octavia E. Butler

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challenging dark reflective sad tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

incredibly hard read. at first i was frustrated, and unable to get into it. but towards the end as the relationship between dana and rufus truly developed and became more twisted, i began to not enjoy it per say but to appreciate it. heartbreaking and painful, weirdly at times funny? sometimes not my favorite pacing, but in the end i understood why it was so important. the nuance and contradictions were as hard to accept as a reader as it was for dana to accept them living it… i feel i may be thinking about this for a while. a different approach and kind of dignity than, say, the heaven and earth grocery store, but dignity in slavery would have to look different to survive, as dana learns. i’m glad i read it
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Family of Liars by E. Lockhart

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

3.0

lollllll this book was bad. but it’s ok bc it was entertaining enough and i will say i did not expect that twist at the end. so there’s that! but yeesh it was lacking in subtlety… it felt like it was whacking me over the head with a board (so to speak) of the points it was trying to make about money and privilege and race and all that. like… oof. lowkey the woke mob got to this one. but not terrible bc hey i was entertained
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