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43 reviews
Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You about Being Creative by Austin Kleon
adventurous
funny
hopeful
informative
inspiring
fast-paced
3.5
Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
2.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Hate crime and Homophobia
The Many Deaths of Laila Starr by Ram V
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
4.75
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder
fast-paced
1.0
This book adds nothing meaningful to the conversation about fascism in America. It offers no solutions or courses of action, or even explanations for how we got to this point; it's just 128 pages of discombobulated and unhelpful soundbites. It seriously suggests reading Harry Potter as “an account of tyranny and resistance”. I will likely come back with a longer review at a later date.
Rave by Jessica Campbell
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Lesbophobia
Moderate: Death, Misogyny, and Pregnancy
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
dark
sad
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
1.25
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Violence, Blood, Cannibalism, Death of parent, and Fire/Fire injury
Moderate: Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, and Pregnancy
Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre by Max Brooks
dark
mysterious
reflective
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Sometimes you read a book at a specific time in your life and it becomes part of your soul. Every book Max Brooks has written has managed to be one of those books for me. I'm bad at writing reviews for art I actually like, I might come back to this one someday to flesh it out.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal death, Cursing, Death, Gore, Violence, and Blood
Moderate: Excrement, Death of parent, and Fire/Fire injury
Minor: Cultural appropriation and War
What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher
4.0
Content Warnings
Moderate: Animal death, Death, and Blood
Minor: Gore, Suicide, and War
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
adventurous
emotional
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
4.25