scumbear's reviews
68 reviews

Coraline by Neil Gaiman

adventurous dark hopeful mysterious 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? It's complicated

4.0

I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy

dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

4.0

In the Miso Soup by Ryū Murakami

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Gore, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Vomit, Medical trauma, Stalking, Suicide attempt, Murder, Gaslighting, and Toxic friendship

Ways of Seeing by John Berger

informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

3.75

Ms Ice Sandwich by Mieko Kawakami

emotional hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective medium-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

4.25

simple, hopeful, beautiful 

The Descent of Man by Grayson Perry

funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

3.75

i bloody love perry. now that’s a proper man <3

Solaris by Stanisław Lem
Did not finish book. Stopped at 59%.

impossible!

Heaven by Mieko Kawakami

dark emotional inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.25

“What I mean is… it’s a beautiful weakness. That’s what we’re protecting, always, each in our own way. It’s what we fight for.”

oh shit here come the waterworks. beautiful novel, wonderfully wonderful and heartbreaking. a book about bullying yes, but a book about breathing and taking all the awful and beautiful things in too. won’t ever forget you heaven. never ever. but you really hurt like hell. 

Grayson Perry: Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Girl by Grayson Perry, Wendy Jones

adventurous emotional hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced

4.5

god what a gem we’ve found in grayson perry. heartbreaking, unapologetic and inspiring. some incredible insights on art and humans in this book. i love him a lot <3

The Princess Saves Herself in This One by Amanda Lovelace

fast-paced

1.25

poorly written. some of the “poems” aren’t even poems they’re sentences that people say on a daily basis. 

there was one poem that i liked in the entire book, the one about wishing upon the glow-in-the-dark stars on the ceiling but other than that it was a waste of time and energy. big ups to the chick for writing a poetry book at 19 though, no matter how boring it was.