shane_the_reading_rat's Reviews (1.21k)


gonna be honest, most “books about books/the power of reading”, i find cringe. i just don’t like most of them. this is a massive exception!!!
i loved this a lot, it feels wildly timely and yeah the ending probably won’t be for everyone but i loved it. also THAT TWIST, I DID NOT SEE IT COMING AT ALL AND IT WAS AWESOME

this was devastating and i loved it. this being compared to wandavision just doesn’t quite make sense to me, but eh sometimes comp titles can be wild.
how Nick and Christian treated Eric still makes me so mad, MY BOY IS GRIEVING BE KIND TO HIM
also
yes i did start tearing up when Jasmine was revealed to be imaginary and that she had died 7 months before. what the fuck dustin thao why did you do this to me

this was fun, i still quite like murderbot as a character, but i definitely lost track of the plot partway through which made it a little rough to finish

this was good and all, but i think the theme of doppelgängers was really limiting. it strays so far so often from that topic that it’s like, “well what is the purpose of this? is this a book about naomi wolf? about the weirdness of wellness culture online? about the pandemic? about right-wing figures and the damage they cause? about doppelgängers in media?” and it’s just never clear at all. it’s a lot of different ideas thrown into a blender.

listened to this while doing a puzzle :)
it was good, not my favorite Singing Hills book but it was nice to go back to the abbey and get some backstory

finished a book for one of my book clubs on the final day of the month!! it still counts!! 
anyway i thought this book was extremely well done and informative. very very very good

look the romance was boring, the main characters were boring too, but this book is a beautiful love letter to a city and to the passage of time and what it brings and i am very into that

that relatable moment when you miss your roommate so badly (he moved to maine) that you make a full-sized human(? or close enough) out of clay
as you can tell by the rating i loved this

i sped through this, it was awesome. saw so much of my childhood self in A and got to learn a lot about Jewish folklore. a win-win :)

you would not believe how excited i was for this book, ive been wanting a Nadya book since she was introduced so this was awesome (also i just love reptiles, including turtles).
the world didn’t stand out to me quite as much as other Wayward Children books (this + the drowned gods world just feel kinda similar to me), but i liked it perfectly fine. 
the concept of how basically every layer of the world has water, the difference was just how light vs. heavy of water it was was awesome. super creative i liked that :)