lewis_fishman's reviews
802 reviews

this felt different to other murakami stories I've read. both solid at the same time but liquid, mutable. the wind. the earth when it quakes. the silence of the night broken up by the occasional snatch of noise

shes won more than Tottenham innit. plus a stunning and real memoir that you don't get from footballers too often. then again, it is alex scott

All we see are the stars, but the night sky is a crowded graveyard

a life with the books of Bancroft is a life worth living in. he simply doesn't miss

i wish this book had existed 10 years ago when i first began to engage online with this sort of discourse, because it would have saved me years of suffering. i've never really been open with this sort of stuff, but for a while because of the laughing at cringe to mra style content and some parts of alt-right stuff, ie issues with fourth wave feminism and feminism as a whole, engaging in fatphobic, transphobic behaviour online, and it's taken the decadeish since to alleviate myself of many of the behaviours and thought patterns that went with it. reading this book has only made me gladder of the decision to change, because i know if i had either maintained my previous path, or had began to discover myself online now, i have a bad feeling that i would have been the exact sort of person cappelle describes throughout the book.

stunning book, stunning content creator. a must-read

hera lindsay bird is a poet like no other, and deserves every iota of success

seems fitting. story about the long Halloween - years and years ago when I thought I would start listening to podcasts, I found a 13 part radio play version of the long Halloween, and this really brought me back to Lewis of those times. everything seemed a bit simpler then

this collection seemed a lot more contemplative than 'stories of your life and others', in almost a raphael bob-waksberg sense. definitely boosted part of the existential dread as the year ends, but hey, what are you gonna do

starting the year off strong. be prepared - the reviews this year will be rambles of the highest order, but only truth.

this was a book that was beloved by an ex from many years ago, but for the time we were in each other's lives, i never really read or listened to patti (apart from birdland). we've gone our seperate ways now, and even though it was an act of nostalgia i did last year in buying the two, i don't regret it. this book is a circular deep dive into the mind of patti, and it was brilliant.

if agnes can turn her life around, there i sure as hell can

look obviously, as an outspoken political and environmental vegan, i wanted to enjoy this book. maybe ive been jaded by the years of stories speaking out against all industrial agriculture, or the marvellous 'seapsiracy' a few years ago, but this just didnt sit right with me. i don't know if it was the hints of nimbyism within the book, the fact that part of the conclusion was discussing how land-based salmon farming is coming, and flanagan inadvertently seems to advertise the coming advent of these farms as a way of saying goodbye to the current state of tasmanian salmon farming. i mean potentially we could go one step further and just stop eating animals and their products? idk man.