30something transqueer living in PNW. Listening to lots of audiobooks. Imported my stuff from StoryGraph, part of which was imported to SG from GoodReads. I'll probably keep this space as a more dedicated bookchat and reviews.
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Too much focus on the family drama which wasnt even that exciting. Should’ve focused more on the queer kids figuring themselves out. Wanted to like it more.
I wanted more.
4 stars bc the ending was not as compelling as the rest of the text.
One minute they’re there: laughing and having fun at the house next door. The next minute, the teens are gone. …
Seventy-five years from today, the human race has been cast from a dying Earth to …
I really wanted to like this, but its incredibly forgettable. None of the characters have enough depth to distinguish them from each other. None of the environments are described well enough to differentiate them. Theres def better sci fi out there.
Yetu holds the memories for her people—water-dwelling descendants of pregnant African slave women thrown overboard by slave owners—who live idyllic …
First published in 1959, Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House has been hailed as …
Not her strongest work imo
"A groundbreaking approach to transforming traumatic legacies passed down in families over generations, by an …
I wanted to like this but so much of it is anecdotal. I had a hard time staying engaged.
Lesbian gunslinger fights spies in space! Three factions vie for control of the galaxy. Rig, …
I got like halfway through it and realized I had no attachment to any of the characters nor investment in the plot. shrug
Felt like it talked about the context of the ”hard things” more than giving actual practical advice on how to have the conversations. shrug I felt like the grief section was pretty decent.
