elizlizabeth's Reviews (242)

To be honest I don't usually read poetry, but this one was recommended to me for a challenge. For that reason I'm gonna be lenient with my rating, but I'll probably never read this again. There were a couple poems I ended up liking, but overall the tone is melancholic and at points even self-indulgent, I didn't know anything about the author beforehand, but it felt like sadness written by someone in the higher end of privilege (which ended up being true but).

Read this for the first time when I was in college, and even tho the prose is clunky at times, Rowell has a talent to make you feel the love in love stories. Absolutely recommended to feel that mushy feel of first loves, and to maybe throwback to the time you wrote fanfiction on the library PC.

It's an odd take on the AI ethical problem, as in it's one that doesn't really solve the debate as much as it fuels the discussion. The book dwells on religion and faith through Klara and the many ones she manages to convince to believe in the power of the sun. I like the way Ishiguro has of making you feel empathy for the character through narrative devices, as I felt anxious or happy or worried when Klara did.
I didn't like how many plot points or things that seemed to be important but were later never mentioned again. To name a few:

Klara loosing precious fluid in order to help Josie, the "portrait" of Josie's sister allegedly hidden somewhere in the house, the appearance of Rosie in that diner, or the father's connection with the "fascist-communist" groups

The ending seemed rushed and unsatisfactory to me, even more so than other novels by the author, so I wouldn't really recommend this one

I'm a huge Hunger Games fan, and I really wanted to like this book but honestly it felt endless.

The minute Corolianus hops on that train after the HG ended I literally sighed out loud, I thought it was going to timeskip to like when Corolianus was an adult.

In my opnion, there was a lot of unnecesary hurdles in Corolianus path that seemed to be there only to make the reader empathize out of pity because he never came out of them wiser or better or even worse given that it's a villain story.
Lucy and Corolianus' love story was utterly disturbing and it would've been much better if those two were best friends or something. The paralells between Lucy and Katniss were nailed over and over and I thought them meaningless to be honest, since there was never any kind of love tension/estranged family bond between Katniss and Snow in the original trilogy.
If anything I think this book made me dislike Coriolanus not as a character, but as a villain which is a shame because President Snow is one the scarier antagonists YA books have.

A wonderful conclusion to Newsprints. It felt a bit rushed in comparison to its predecesor, but as we are covering more terrain on this one and have a larger cast of characters I assume it gets harder to put all of that into print. Still, the message and the art and the wonderfull dialogues did not dissapoint.

Been following Ru Xu since the Saint for Rent webcomic and this one is equally superb. You'll enjoy it even if you're not a fan of comics in general.

Gonna be honest, I just read this one to kind of check all the boxes on Jane Austen's works. It was enjoyable but it's much less polished than other books by her I've read. You can glimpse a lot of the author's latter creative decisions with most of these so it's interesting to read if you're a big fan.

Loved this book! If you're a fan of contemporary literature this one is a must.

This is the story of entire generations of a family, up to the moment they settle in a new land and 'til the bloodline's demise. The Buendía family is definitely something, but I wouldn't say they're a role model (nor does the author portray them as such). Misfortune after misfortune happens to them and it can feel quite fatalist at times, a sort of Colombian Lemony Snicket, but with more incest. There's a lot of characters and the fact that they're named the same had me checking the Family Tree every five pages and even then I'm sure I attributed a plot point to the wrong Aureliano -which I guess is a clever way to force you to immerse in the story and be as lost as all the other Buendías.
In the end that's what this is, a clever book, marvelously crafted with exquisite prose, but deeply disturbing and depressing. I do not agree with GGM's worldview here and the whole Oedipus Complex trope seemed to point at Shakespearean levels of tragedy, but where my man Willy didn't take himself too seriously, GGM does this sad boi act which made me dislike his books in the first place. Appreciate the art, but won't be re-reading it soon, nor recommending it to nobody.