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American Royals by Katharine McGee
- Loveable characters? No
3.0
america fanfic that made me cry twice
Shark Heart: A Love Story by Emily Habeck
emotional
hopeful
- Loveable characters? Yes
5.0
well, this book completely shattered me.
You Deserve Each Other by Sarah Hogle
2.75
Mar. 2024: 2.75⭐️
So I spent the first of this book in varying degrees of anger over the fact that I was reading "miserable people being miserable to each other" marketed as a romcom. While I really enjoyed the last third or so, I don't really think that the payoff was worth being frustrated and hating both of the main characters for almost 200 pages. And while I really liked the elements of the book focused on falling back in love and learning to be a better partner, I found the way their evolution from utter hatred to utterly in love was written to be pretty sudden and not super believable.
Eagerly awaiting the day I read a romcom book I absolutely love again🙏
So I spent the first of this book in varying degrees of anger over the fact that I was reading "miserable people being miserable to each other" marketed as a romcom. While I really enjoyed the last third or so, I don't really think that the payoff was worth being frustrated and hating both of the main characters for almost 200 pages. And while I really liked the elements of the book focused on falling back in love and learning to be a better partner, I found the way their evolution from utter hatred to utterly in love was written to be pretty sudden and not super believable.
Eagerly awaiting the day I read a romcom book I absolutely love again🙏
Good Girl by Anna Fitzpatrick
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Feb. 2024: 3⭐️
went back and forth the whole time reading this between really liking and really disliking this book, specifically lucy, but i loved anna fitzpatrick thanking the discography of joanna newsom in the acknowledgements
went back and forth the whole time reading this between really liking and really disliking this book, specifically lucy, but i loved anna fitzpatrick thanking the discography of joanna newsom in the acknowledgements
The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
informative
Oct. 2023
she sure does talk about mushrooms. by GOLLY does she talk about mushrooms.
she sure does talk about mushrooms. by GOLLY does she talk about mushrooms.
The Fiancée Farce by Alexandria Bellefleur
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Oct. 2023: 4.5⭐️
this is a u-haul sapphic romance disguised as a marriage of convenience and i loved basically every second of it
also the part about the author’s dead cat in the acknowledgments?🥲 rude🥲
this is a u-haul sapphic romance disguised as a marriage of convenience and i loved basically every second of it
also the part about the author’s dead cat in the acknowledgments?🥲 rude🥲
Funny You Should Ask by Elissa Sussman
4.0
Oct. 2023: 4⭐️
really liked the writing style. plus perhaps my favorite book dedication i've ever read ("all my stories are love stories because of you").
really liked the writing style. plus perhaps my favorite book dedication i've ever read ("all my stories are love stories because of you").