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American Gods

Neil Gaiman

DID NOT FINISH: 52%

This is so long. I'd finish it as a regular book but the audiobook format makes it even longer and I almost dread starting to play it now.

The Mountain Is You

Brianna Wiest

DID NOT FINISH: 10%

some books should be a 10-slide instagram carousel. this is one of them.

La Zone du Dehors

Alain Damasio

DID NOT FINISH: 6%

je n'ai absolument aucun intérêt pour le narrateur en giga chien 

Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good

adrienne maree brown

DID NOT FINISH: 19%

I thought this was a book about making activism positive instead of constant discourse and miserabilism. Turns out it's about feeling sexy, and even when it's not about sex, the sex imagery is pervasive in the writing (as in, thinking about politics is "foreplay" before liberation, or whatever).

I should have read the reviews first, this just isn't what I wanted to learn about.

This is probably a good book, but being lied to in the summary makes me really frustrated.

Susan Sontag

Béatrice Mousli

DID NOT FINISH: 3%

probably a good book. I just realized 10 pages in that I wasn't interested in a 600 biography of someone I don't really care about 

Felix Ever After

Kacen Callender

DID NOT FINISH: 18%

I expected not to like this book but I didn't expect to close it fully exasper ted after 60 pages. I want to punch the hero every other page and may or may not have yelled in annoyance at the insufferable Millennial writing habit of mentioning Harry Potter every 30 pages. Read another book, authors!

Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Science Fiction and Fantasy from Transgender Writers

Casey Plett, Cat Fitzpatrick

DID NOT FINISH: 12%

The "Are you there Satan? It's me, Laura" was enjoyable. Unfortunately, it helped me realize how much I had drudged through the previous ones, and I'm not willing to do this again before finding another good story.

Les militantes

Claire Raphaël

DID NOT FINISH: 34%

1. Le bouquin passe plus d'efforts à demander pourquoi personne n'aime la police qu'à donner une personnalité à ses policiers
2. J'ai craqué quand j'ai eu 6 séries de points de suspension en un paragraphe.

Glasshouse

Charles Stross

DID NOT FINISH: 5%

Really not in the mood for hard sci-fi right now 

Call Me Cassandra

Marcial Gala

DID NOT FINISH: 7%

Should have checked the content warnings.