coolfoolmoon's Reviews (357)

When the Angels Left the Old Country

Sacha Lamb

5.0

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I’m not Christian anymore, in fact a lot of times I think I want to be Jewish, but for a long time I believed soulmates existed. At 11 I realized (had to be told) I was gay and went through the torment of thinking why would god damn me to hell when I haven't even lived a life yet? Why would god curse me? I figured God wouldn’t've cursed me, maybe it was humans who were wrong. God made me gay and made me a soulmate and theres someone out there who's like me in more ways than other people and their soulmates are alike. So until I was, mm, 21 I was thinking surely I’ll meet that person someday and I’ll just get it, everything will click, life is complete because this is the person God sent for me.

Well, it was a Jewish woman on tiktok, the girl who wanted to nuke the moon, who said “Soulmates are stupid. i love you on purpose.” Fuck! Blew up my belief!

And I think this book reinforces both ideas for me. I’m so sad, I’m like God, send me mine please, send me the person who is my soulmate and I will love them on purpose, even if we are complete opposites and all we do is argue and get into mischief. And then I’m like oh I’m so happy. They chose each other every time, against the odds, literally, cosmically and internally. It’s so beautiful. I'm so sad and so happy.

It's been a long time since I read a book, finished the last page and had to fight myself from rereading it. I may reread it later in the year. Or every January! It’s so beautiful!

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Sister Snake

Amanda Lee Koe

5.0

emotional funny informative tense 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: Yes

What I would give to have a sister. What a perfect story. And so romantic too. Don't ask me to explain if you read the book you get it. So many beautiful layers... Amanda Lee Koe you will always be famous. If Amanda Lee Koe has no fans my soul has left this earthen realm. I'm blown away.

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Matilda

Roald Dahl

4.75

emotional funny hopeful sad fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

parentified child even by her teacher. this is my first time reading the book i didnt grow up with it but i saw the movie when i was 12 or something and loved it. now i love the book too. i was matilda growing up and this book mightve either been my favorite or fucked me up as a kid a lot of the details are a little too real for me. but um. i love it here. love love love.

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Bury Your Gays

Chuck Tingle

4.5

dark emotional medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Wow! I thought this book was gonna be a quirky slasher. I wasn't expecting that! So good!

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The Princess in Black

Shannon Hale, Dean Hale

2.0

adventurous lighthearted fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

Wish the story would've rhymed :/
Very unfortunate name for the horse. They could've came up with something else. Ebony? Noir? Midnight?? Anything.

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In My Past Life I Was Cleopatra: A Sceptical Believer's Journey Through the New Age

Amal Awad

3.75

funny informative mysterious reflective medium-paced

What a perfect title for a book that is fiction. However this was not fiction! But I still had a fun time. Awad’s a good writer so I’ll read what she has to say. I giggled a handful of times too!

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Squire

Nadia Shammas, Sara Alfageeh

3.75

adventurous 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: Yes

art is good but also funny looking in a way i found odd (specifically the faces of the characters in a lot of scenes). dialogue is also weird which i ordinarily wouldn't mind except that all the text is dialogue, there is no storytelling here that isn't conversation so its much more noticeable when it's clunky. other than that i had a good time and its a good message for the kids, can’t complain too much. didn't love the bts origin of the character being a dark skinned girl named flea... that lost some points.

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American Holocaust: Columbus and the Conquest of the New World

David E. Stannard

4.5

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense slow-paced

Got this book 10 years ago for a college class. I picked a terrible time to read it (as i’m trying to finish as many books at the end of the year and I read nonfiction the slowest) but it's also a perfect time to read it (as a genocide inspired by a genocide inspired by this genocide is currently happening). The line or paragraph that sums it all up is along the lines of every holocaust is similar in many ways and unique in its own way. Above all each one is its own tragedy. We must take the time to learn about them all. We cannot look away. History always comes, either by knocking or burning down the door.

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Frizzy

Claribel A. Ortega

3.5

emotional 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: Yes

Now why wasn't miss girl named Izzy? Short for Isabela? Frizzy Izzy? Izzy "The Frizz"? That could've been her super hero name!

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The Pale Queen

Ethan M. Aldridge

4.5

adventurous funny hopeful mysterious 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: Yes

if agatha don't want the primordial lesbian witch i do!!! hand her over!!!

the ending is so powerful. setting a hard boundary by her dropping the offering. i love love LOVE that thats such an important message for people, kids, to know you don't have to forgive people who hurt and / or groomed you!

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