Marki

2,5-3*

this is so heartwarming and lovely ♥ just what i needed

• for found family and queer and bipoc characters
  but the plot just doesn't hold up at all, character motivations and actions don't make any sense, romance with no chemistry, magic system that also makes no sense

A great echo of classical Gothic stories, I loved Noemí as a badass main character who still feels realistic and I'm excited to read more from Garcia and more Gothic tales

Úžasnej překlad, velmi specifický zasazení do holandského venkova a veterinárního prostředí, což tomu dávalo určitou jedinečnost a v podstatě dobře napsaný, ale obsah velmi pokulhává. Prasák muž se zamiluje do dítěte který zneužívá. Ok, what's new? Kromě prostředí a toho že místní protagonistce je o trochu víc než Lolitě od Nabokova nemám pocit že by to přineslo cokoliv novýho co se pointy a příběhu týče

This is so well written. And really heavy and sad, not many hopeful things happen. Still, worth a read, just be ready

4,5

4,5*

This book is fucking heartbreaking. And great. Description of what it's like when your family member suffers from addiction or depression and how it influences all other future relationships in your life. Religion and keeping up faith when God lets terrible things happen. Science and finding answers. 4,5/5

yeah, no.

dobelli has some good points (news focuses often on the bad and sensational) but the way he frames everything and makes an idiot out of everyone who doesn't follow his news-free lifestyle is just making me not want to listen to Anything he says, even if it is one of the better points

“My year has twelve months, yours only eleven because you read the news and lose time” oh shut up Rolf
“if you really care about something, dont give it attention, work or prayers, only money”
“it is idiotic to concern yourself with things you can't change”
“any ideology is stupid”
then some screaming at clouds about celebrities being people who don't deserve it instead of inventors, casually dropping the alpha male ideology of women choosing higher status partner... if a book on the same topic with similar points was written by someone else, maybe it would've worked. i was hoping to find out something about the psychology of news, the inner workings of the journals headquarters or some studies backing up what he says. guess im gonna have to find that somewhere else

this was so good

4,5*
I felt like the line with el cero was superfluous, but other than that, loved it <3

James Woods really likes Flaubert

a rough but super important read
the only thing missing was maybe pointers on how to support women of colour

this grabbed my heart and i need more

only took me a year and a quarter ♥

2,5*
i had expectations of structured thoughts/essays about bisexuality. there were some thoughts about bisexuality, but mostly rambles about author's relationship history where the point was hard to find.

3.75 stars

This was alright I guess. Very much a product of its time, a mix of feminist messaging but a white cishet feminism and personal anecdotes often falling into some stereotypes and essentialism. Especially ranting about having children, Moran says one stereotypical thing in one chapter (having children will make you into a superwoman, nothing else can do that) and then says the complete opposite in the next. Mid 2000s Cosmo vibes. Feel free to pass

Solid 3.5, I didn't expect anything super deep and academic and that's indeed what I got and I'm happy about discovering cool women I didn't know about and learning more about those I already knew. If you want to learn something new without it being too difficult, this is a book for you.

Easy read, nice balance between cosines of cooking and struggles of people back then, bonus points for the touch of feminism

2,5

4,5*
raw and haunting, really enjoyed it ♥

Not really a horror, feels more like a history litfic with some horror aspects and infodumps about Mexican cinema. The protagonists are fine, they're okay, but that's it. Could use some editing, drags a bit.

4,5*
If you like plottwists, this one's for you