kaceyyy's reviews
365 reviews

So powerful, strong and honest.  My favourite Morrison so far.

Wow wow wow wow wow - so much went on, the story just drew me innnnn the fact I’ve read so many pages so quickly is a testament to that.  Usual dose of murakami objectifying teenage girls + women but I’m gonna just block that out of my brain x

So heartwarming and sweet.  Literally a whole book based around a second hand bookstore - so how could it be bad??  I loved the parts on reading, finding yourself etc, (aka part 1) but part 2 fell a little short for me just bc I didn’t really like momoko’s character as much as the others 

This broke my little heart.  So much yearning, so much dry humour, so many unsaid things … also countess olendka gave me the same energy as Anna karenina 

The pacing was so weird but it was a fun read

He deffo knew his stuff, researched well, and knew how to write.  But his writing style was very clunky, the pacing was a bit off and kept pulling me out the story bc it would jump around from fast passed and skimming to slow and in-depth.  I also would’ve preferred conclusions at the end of each chapter on how this linked to current corporate powers - the conclusion at the end was good but should’ve been weaved in throughout the book.  But the history was interesting and I did learn a lot.

Bro it literally read like a textbook - I wanted to finish this by the end of the year but I couldn’t.  This wasn’t as good as I wanted it to be - but maybe that’s an issue with the translation bc half the time they didn’t talk like real people - will keep it for reference tho 

This book actually blew my mind.  It was so well written, and it wasn’t very science fiction heavy so I got used to it quicker.  There were so many moments where I felt sick and uncomfortable and I felt tense reading it - it was genuinely so powerful 

This was what I wanted “on the road” to be like … it was alright … I liked the first 1/3 and then it all kind of fell off a bit especially the last 1/3

Really interesting read.  I’ve only watched one or two things w viola Davis in it so I can’t say I really knew much about her.  But this was a really interesting take on her life and her acting and I could really see how self reflective and positive she was.  I thought it was really interesting in terms of the intersectionality of her growing up in poverty in America as a black woman.  The only reason it hasn’t got 5-stars is bc sometimes the pacing was a bit off and it threw me out of the book a couple of times