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shane_the_reading_rat's Reviews (1.21k)
personally, Disability Visibility hit a lot better than this.
i think the narrowing of the topic (from visibility to intimacy) really really hurt this, as for many essays it either felt as though they were narrowed specifically to fit the topic or just didn’t fit at all.
a lot of this book leaned a bit too far towards being pretentious for me (which sadly is a common theme when i try and read books specifically about disability justice)
some essays i adored, but a lot just did not hit the spot like Disability Visibility did
sorry to point out a specific essay, but i’ve learned over time that Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha’s work is just very very much not for me. i have a lot of respect for them as a person and get why people love their work, but her tendency to use a long list of identifiers before mentioning the person and what they say (which will be completely unrelated to the identifiers) drives me up the wall. i don’t think she means it this way at all, but it just makes identities sound like buzzwords and wayyyy too twitter-politics for my liking.
i think the narrowing of the topic (from visibility to intimacy) really really hurt this, as for many essays it either felt as though they were narrowed specifically to fit the topic or just didn’t fit at all.
a lot of this book leaned a bit too far towards being pretentious for me (which sadly is a common theme when i try and read books specifically about disability justice)
some essays i adored, but a lot just did not hit the spot like Disability Visibility did
awesome follow up to Welcome to St Hell <3
this one felt like it had some very creative and fun choices in the art at the beginning, but that dropped off a bit towards the end. i think as it got denser and more serious things such as relationships were discussed, the fun things such as the video game influences and the humor fell a bit by the wayside.
this also features less of future-lewis talking to past-lewis, which was my favorite part of the first St Hell book.
however, Escape From St Hell does discuss a lot of things about transitioning that are important to talk about, such as dating and finding your style after your teenage years
def good book would recommend if you liked Welcome to St Hell :D
this one felt like it had some very creative and fun choices in the art at the beginning, but that dropped off a bit towards the end. i think as it got denser and more serious things such as relationships were discussed, the fun things such as the video game influences and the humor fell a bit by the wayside.
this also features less of future-lewis talking to past-lewis, which was my favorite part of the first St Hell book.
however, Escape From St Hell does discuss a lot of things about transitioning that are important to talk about, such as dating and finding your style after your teenage years
def good book would recommend if you liked Welcome to St Hell :D
confession to make: through a solid chunk of this i was just reading it with a yt video in the bg
but once i was at roughly 50% i was like “oh wait oh fuck” turned off my video and zoomed through the rest
fair warning this is much heavier than i expected it to me but it’s also just incredible
something that stood out to me is the incredible friend group in this manga
there are two timelines in this and frankly i did have a favorite (the ten-years-in-the-future one) but the highschool one was also wonderful !!
def plan to continue with this series <3
but once i was at roughly 50% i was like “oh wait oh fuck” turned off my video and zoomed through the rest
fair warning this is much heavier than i expected it to me but it’s also just incredible
something that stood out to me is the incredible friend group in this manga
there are two timelines in this and frankly i did have a favorite (the ten-years-in-the-future one) but the highschool one was also wonderful !!
def plan to continue with this series <3
love the idea of magical cooking but the conflicts at the end were solved ridiculously fast
the aspects about religion in this book hit so hard for me
ik this book doesn’t technically have a “happy” ending, but it has a hopeful one. this might be specific to just me, but i don’t mind queer books without particularly happy endings as i think we need those kind of books too (along with the fact that the non-happy ending queer books tend to be my more relatable ones lmao). to me even when i was a young teen, say around 15, reading queer ya i was disappointed by how many books had perfect happy endings with stellarly accepting people in them (obviously those books have their place too but thats not my point rn) and i would just feel sad and jealous because of how unrelatable it felt to me
the side characters in this did feel a tad flat (particularly Stella) but even so i really like B’rad and Beckett
sorry this review is kinda personal, but a lot of the topics covered in this book are extremely personal to me which is why i put it on my tbr!! this and Gay The Pray Away by Natalie Naudus were both very personal and emotional reading experiences for me that i deeply needed
(i really need to reread Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle and Hell Followed With Us by Andrew Joseph White. just go all the way and make 2024 my year of coming to terms with the fact that i have religious trauma from christianity)
ik this book doesn’t technically have a “happy” ending, but it has a hopeful one. this might be specific to just me, but i don’t mind queer books without particularly happy endings as i think we need those kind of books too (along with the fact that the non-happy ending queer books tend to be my more relatable ones lmao). to me even when i was a young teen, say around 15, reading queer ya i was disappointed by how many books had perfect happy endings with stellarly accepting people in them (obviously those books have their place too but thats not my point rn) and i would just feel sad and jealous because of how unrelatable it felt to me
the side characters in this did feel a tad flat (particularly Stella) but even so i really like B’rad and Beckett
sorry this review is kinda personal, but a lot of the topics covered in this book are extremely personal to me which is why i put it on my tbr!! this and Gay The Pray Away by Natalie Naudus were both very personal and emotional reading experiences for me that i deeply needed
(i really need to reread Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle and Hell Followed With Us by Andrew Joseph White. just go all the way and make 2024 my year of coming to terms with the fact that i have religious trauma from christianity)
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god this book is awesome
i’ve wanted to go into work with animals and conservation similar to what rae wynn-grant does, so it was super nice to see her talk about her path to getting where she is today
i’ve wanted to go into work with animals and conservation similar to what rae wynn-grant does, so it was super nice to see her talk about her path to getting where she is today
checked some reviews and apparently this book is mainly about eating disorders (which isn’t mentioned in the description at all :/ )
one part of me wants to read it anyways but the other part knows i am not in the headspace to read about something that’s consistently a big trigger for me so i am going to listen to that part
one part of me wants to read it anyways but the other part knows i am not in the headspace to read about something that’s consistently a big trigger for me so i am going to listen to that part
love the representation in this but ngl im bored
“camp” books tend to be wildly hit-or-miss for me depending on the surrounding tone of it, and this just isn’t hitting
“camp” books tend to be wildly hit-or-miss for me depending on the surrounding tone of it, and this just isn’t hitting