Yes I still ask my mom to schedule some of my doctor's appointments. She likes to feel needed. I still ask my dad for help with math I could easily Google. It's called love
Song of the day is Super Bon Bon by Soul Coughing tell me urs <3
He wasn't vegan when we started dating but has now been vegan for three years :)
is this real?! if this is a joke i'm going to be mad :) lol
Bunny, read in 2023, 1.75⭐️ - Too ambitious and didn't deliver. There was a moment towards the middle where I went, "this is really taking off" and everything after that was a letdown. The writing was confusing, and not in the magical realism elements and fever dream way. Confusing in a way where Awad is heavy handed with her >!unreliable narrator's twists!< at the cost of telling a compelling story. The prose used a lot of mfa bad writing cliches as part of its satire, which was funny for, generously, 25% of the book. I felt it failed to make a meaningful or innovative statement about it's themes. >!Awad was having too much fun showing us she can make us have feelings over a goose-woman to say anything interesting about female friendship. Especially when compared to her other works like Alls Well.!< All that said, I have an enormous amount of respect for her grip on this market. Bunny is THE weird girl book (tied probably with MYORAR).
Motherthing, read in 2024, 0.5 ⭐️ - The writing reminded me of Chuck Palahniuk at his absolute worst and if he wrote about women.
Annie Bot, read in 2024, 1⭐️ - I had high hopes for this, I think it's an interesting premise to explore. But the book fails to explore anything really, just presents broad ideas with shallow characters and no tension. Painful.
Work has been so busy truly the human being is not meant to live in the cage that is capitalism
I don't think I'll finish anything else this month (currently reading Colony and obsessed!!) so thought I'd share now! Great month of reading 🤎 would love to discuss any. Some reviews -
Winter in Sokcho, 4.75 ⭐️ -
There's a lifelike quality to Winter in Sokcho most novels don't possess. Like that the world it explores is so expansive and self contained it's become a thing that thinks and breathes on it's own.
Incredibly atmospheric, impeccable writing, and every scene manages to be full of tension even when nothing is going on. It succeeds on every front.
Yesteryear, 3.25 ⭐️ -
Yesteryear managed to do a number of things very well. I was skeptical going in, >!"tradwife gets sent back in time to a husband who hits her and learns feminism isn't bad.!< Ooo. How are they gonna make that 400 pages?". I was, I'm pleased to say, somewhat wrong in my initial judgement.
The writing in this is decent. Constantly subverted my expectations to do something much more entertaining and/or poignant. Funny in a subtle, satirical way. Despite how contemporary the premise is, many of the themes explored feel timeless. Natalie was a unique main character.
It does have it's flaws. The beginning is slow, doesn't really hook you until about 40 - 50% of the way through. With how well done the writing is, I wish Burke relied less on the gimmicky formatting. Some of the perspectives were weaker than others.
It's biggest flaw is how little sympathy the author has for her own characters. Natalie is underdeveloped and one dimensional, despite being the focus of the book we're granted little understanding of her real desires.
All Fours, 3 ⭐️ -
While July's style is as enjoyable as ever, All Fours lacks the socially alienating weirdness of her previous work. This wasn't bad, but it did leave me wishing for more.