ellieeeeeee's Reviews (238)

Bimboland

Erin Taylor

4.25

dark emotional fast-paced

related a lot to a lot of these poems

The Cement Garden

Ian McEwan

3.75

emotional fast-paced

it would have been a great book if not for the incest tbh like genuinely why

Content Warnings

Side Notes from the Archivist: Poems

Anastacia-Renee

4.25

fast-paced

beautiful poetry
my favorite quote was from a side note: "history isn't something you look back at and say it was inevitable; it happens because people make decisions that are sometimes very impulsive and of the moment, but those moments are cumulative realities."

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Adania Shibli

5.0

challenging emotional reflective fast-paced

fuck man what the fuck truly heartbreaking

Content Warnings

An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures

Clarice Lispector

4.25

emotional reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

loved the prose, i highlighted a lot of the book
i love the concept of finding the self before uniting with the partner and i did like the characters but there were bits and pieces of clear gender roles that frustrated me and pulled me out of the story.

Yellowface

R.F. Kuang

3.75

medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

this was a very unique and interesting book i just really hated junie and i get that that's the point but i couldn't get past how horrible of a person she was to really enjoy the plot