simonlorden's Reviews (1.38k)

Disappointed in this book unfortunately, but mostly because it wasn't what I expected. If you want a thorough examination of Sappho with historical context and quoting from later artists, then you'll probably like this, but I kind of wanted to read poems. I would have been okay with 50-50 context and poems or something, but this is 95% context and maybe 5% poems. Anyway.

Moriah's flat makes me long to have my own place that i can decorate and make cozy. I mean come on she has cat furniture that looks like houseplants??

 

Nagyon érdekes volt ezeket a meséket olvasni, ismerősek és mégis teljesen újak. Az is tetszett, hogy mindegyik mese végén van egy kis extra magyarázat, ami betekintést enged a mesegyűjtők munkájába. Az egyetlen „panaszom”, hogy néha a jegyzetekben megemlített mesék érdekesebbnek hangzottak, és most azokat is el szeretném olvasni :) 

Read this in one sitting. Horrific story, and almost worse than the pedophile father is how the law and the system left this girl defenseless. Like, whose idea was it to let the guy out after 3 years and let him move nextdoor to the kid he abused?? I suppose it happened because the mother was so insistent that nothing happened, which is its own kind of fucked up.

It was interesting to see that

the mother herself is also a victim

, but instead of recognizing that, she clings to her abuser. Meredith

having to use herself as bait

to get her father arrested again is bleak.

Érdekes sztori, elég bizarr.

Have you ever wondered how you'd have sex with a lamp? Wonder no more.

Funny, light story. The ending was a bit meh, I felt like it went against the cracky vibe. But Thor was nice.

Could have used another round of editing with the tenses.

This romance between a white trans woman and a Black cis man is probably the best BDSM book I've read in my life. I love that they're not just doing kink isolated, but there is a community, a space, events they go to, etc. It also shows things like subspace and aftercare, safe words, and all that. I particularly like the appearance of subspace. The two main characters are also well-developed and likeable, and I love their dynamic.

 

Remekül összeszedett könyv, sok olyan történettel, amit eddig nem ismertem. Ezen kívül szépen van tagolva, nem éreztem túlságosan sűrűnek vagy nehéznek, mint egy-két más könyvet. Az is nagyon tetszett, hogy nem csak egy-egy verziót választ ki, hanem a jegyzetekben mindig leírja, hogy egy történet hányféle forrásból lett „összegyúrva”, ezzel is mutatva hogy mennyire sokszínű a görög és római mitológia.