literaryjunarin's reviews
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I don't care about all the bad reviews because this series is my home!

Mr. Prohartchin is an impoverished old man who lives like a beggar. His only possessions are an old mattress without a bedsheet, a teapot he refuses to share with other tenants, and a box with a German lock. Out of pity, his landlady allows him to pay only a fraction of his rent, unlike the other tenants. He lives so frugally that he opts for the cheapest lunch and often skips dinner altogether. His social interactions are miserable, leading to frequent quarrels with the other tenants.

This is a multi-layered short story that explores themes of greed, pride, conceit, social anxiety, and poverty.

I love me some witches.

It was more gory than I expected. 

Well, i like dragons so I enjoyed it. Violet is annoying and "Violence" as a nickname is cringe tbh. Her being constantly horny is also tiring to read about. But overall, it was still a good fun? It was constantly tense and action packed. Not amazing but was a breeze to read through.

my holy scripture

I read this for the upcoming stage adaptation but I didn't like it. The only thing on my mind while reading is "Ugh this is another entry for #MenWritingWomen.". Overzealous description of body shape, one-dimensional female characters, and distasteful sex. 

I hope the play will make it better.

 “Aurel hoped that women writers would disobey the laws that bound men’s books. It was time for women to take language for themselves, Aurel said, even one word at a time, to take their own names and become. To become even one word.” 

After Sappho is a collection of reimagined lives of a brilliant group of feminists, sapphists, artists and writers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century as they battle for liberation, justice and control over their own lives. It is interesting and informative but lacking soul. At some point, it started to read like a research paper. Disappointing.

Boring and not in the mood for it.

This is a vampire-bait. The vampire only served as a trigger for the main character to trauma-dump her mommy issues into. Sad girl lit at its finest indeed. The sex was unpleasant. I liked the ending though. I was there on the boat. Emotional. Cathartic.