competencefantasy's Reviews (912)

Everything about this is weird compared to the social structure I'm used to, but it's so relevant to my life.

This is a really sweet book that also made me feel a little called out on something I did in high school... which is fair I was kinda terrible when I was still under my mother's influence.

90 percent descriptions of very expensive objects food and location. Can be very pleasant if you're in the mood for petty and willing to write off fictional rich people as the healthier fat and gluten free alternative to being mesmerized by real rich people, and thus not in need of immediate guillotining (though to be clear there are plenty of rich characters to hate and the not a societal good thing gets brought up a time or two).

Not only is this a great book with really manageable prose but now I need some good fiction about this historical figure who was right up my alley but not on my radar because of bad reasons.

Tried reading the poems out loud with no prep. Cried. The poems about the moon and statues both stood out. So now I am giving the book full marks even though it has some problems (one remark about a fundamentalist being attracted to someone he didn't expect which was probably more acceptable in 2003 and was far from the worst execution of that trope Ive seen but ehhh).

So sweet. So cute. So exactly how this kind of thing would go.

Cute little story. Not much to it besides the gay penguin thing but who cares.

I liked it but the story feels a little blunt and unfleshed out and the prose is also chunky. It might be the translation which feels very word by word.

It is most certainly a different subset of queer culture than I am familiar with so there's stuff I have no basis to judge. Also it feels to me like the pace goes way up in the last few chapters.

That was really sweet and also a little close to home and stressful