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Convenience Store Woman

Sayaka Murata

DID NOT FINISH

Found this one to be underwhelming to be honest. I understand its overall societal critique and messaging; however, I have read other books that are similar thematically that got the point across with more impact.

I Was the President's Mistress!!

Miguel Syjuco

DID NOT FINISH: 17%

I would have enjoyed this book more if I was listening to it as an audiobook. The premise is fantastic but the experience of reading this book physically was D E N S E.

Interior Chinatown

Charles Yu

DID NOT FINISH: 28%

I can appreciate why people love this book, I just personally couldn’t get into it. Maybe I’ll try this as an audiobook in the future as I feel like the screenplay format would work better on audio.

Where the Crawdads Sing

Delia Owens

DID NOT FINISH: 17%

I tried to get into this, I really did. But it was just too meandering for my taste.

The Book of Mother

Violaine Huisman

DID NOT FINISH: 14%

Too heavy and depressing for me at the moment. May return at a future point.

Tacky: Love Letters to the Worst Culture We Have to Offer

Rax King

DID NOT FINISH: 15%

This book was more autobiographical than I anticipated, which I’m not really in the mood to read right now. Maybe I’ll revisit this in the future.

Girly Drinks

Mallory O'Meara

DID NOT FINISH: 0%

I'll eventually return to this one - I'm reading too many books right now and had to put this on hiatus 

Luster

Raven Leilani

DID NOT FINISH: 31%

I can see why people like this book, but it just wasn’t for me. There were some brilliant lines and Edie is a fascinating protagonist; I just couldn’t get past the MFA-heavy language of the book.

Transcendent Kingdom

Yaa Gyasi

DID NOT FINISH: 9%

DNF’d after Chapter 6. Could not get into this writing style.

The Sublime Object of Ideology

Slavoj Žižek

DID NOT FINISH

Sorry Zizek, this was way too dense for my brain to handle.