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* Add Conversations With FriendsJune McEnroe2022-08-04
| | | | | | | | | | | | The better of the two, but largely the same. I feel like these books are a bit too autobiographical, but I don't know if I'm allowed to accuse an author of that. My real problem is that I read these books as largely uncritical of their characters. They behave in nonsense ways, are mostly uncritical of their own behaviour, and don't really have arcs of growth or change. I suppose this book had a bit of one, but only in the last two chapters.
* Add Normal PeopleJune McEnroe2022-07-30
| | | | | | | | | | Unbearably straight. Eyerolls and sighs per page off the charts. Shout out to Joanna, I guess. I kinda like the lack of quotation marks though to be honest. After half of the Ruth Ozeki novel and now this, I need to get back to some genre fiction.
* Add The Bone Shard EmperorJune McEnroe2022-07-03
| | | | | Suffers a little bit from middle book but I really enjoyed it. Read it faster than the first one too, despite its length.
* Add Maiden, Mother, CroneJune McEnroe2022-06-08
| | | | | | Mixed bag like most collections of short stories. Some of them are pretty good. The author of the worst written story also has the worst written bio.
* Add The Bone Shard DaughterJune McEnroe2022-05-29
| | | | | Never seen a title telegraph the reveal so hard. Excited to read the next one though.
* Add CirceJune McEnroe2022-05-08
| | | | | Look, it's okay. But I should have been done with classics fan fiction last time I said so.
* Add HenchJune McEnroe2022-04-17
| | | | There are some truly horrifying and gruesome bits though.
* Add The Invisible Life of Addie LaRueJune McEnroe2022-03-24
| | | | | | | | | | | So good, but so long. Reminded me of The Ten Thousand Doors of January at the beginning, and more of that N. K. Jemisin series about gods later. I like this interacting with gods and becoming something like one sort of thing. God, it took me a whole month (more?) to read and this is only my third book of the year :( I need some more novellas to read, but the other books I have from the library currently are also thick.
* Add Convenience Store WomanJune McEnroe2022-01-26
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* Add The Galaxy, and the Ground WithinJune McEnroe2022-01-14
| | | | No, I am still rating these out of three. I love this so much.
* Add The City in the Middle of the NightJune McEnroe2021-12-31
| | | | | Sophie is a fucking idiot jfc. She doesn't even get a redemption she's just bad all the way to the end.
* Add Six Months, Three Days, Five OthersJune McEnroe2021-12-02
| | | | | | An impressive amount of these short stories are actual stories with beginnings, middles and ends! Well done! The last little side story of All the Birds in the Sky is cute.
* Add SorrowlandJune McEnroe2021-11-22
| | | | Good, but slow.
* Add A Psalm for the Wild-BuiltJune McEnroe2021-11-03
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* Add PiranesiJune McEnroe2021-10-29
| | | | What an interesting one!
* Add BerserkJune McEnroe2021-10-22
| | | | | | | I had reserved this at the library like half a damn year ago after enjoying the anime, just to see if I'd like to read the manga. The answer is not really. Also such a huge and hefty book for so little reading.
* Add A Wizard of EarthseaJune McEnroe2021-10-20
| | | | Meh.
* Add EarthlingsJune McEnroe2021-10-03
| | | | What the fuck.
* Add The HobbitJune McEnroe2021-09-23
| | | | | Surprisingly good for something written by a man like a hundred years ago!
* Add Clay's ArkJune McEnroe2021-09-05
| | | | It's like proto-xenogenesis-series.
* Add A Desolation Called PeaceJune McEnroe2021-08-21
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* Add Fugitive TelemetryJune McEnroe2021-07-27
| | | | Felt so short compared to the previous full-length novel.
* Add Sisters of the RevolutionJune McEnroe2021-07-22
| | | | | | | Some good stories but 99% downers. Feels like the editors fell for thinking that "feminist speculative fiction" can only be about suffering. Where are the stories of pride and empowerment? Balance it out, please.
* Add Oryx and CrakeJune McEnroe2021-06-22
| | | | | Contemptible protagonist, long and tedious. Would not have ever read Year of the Flood if I had read this one first.
* Add The Year of the FloodJune McEnroe2021-05-23
| | | | Abrupt ending.
* Add All the Birds in the SkyJune McEnroe2021-05-09
| | | | | The writing style seemed very odd at the beginning. Not sure the end was sastisfying.
* Add The PenelopiadJune McEnroe2021-04-26
| | | | Tedious. I must give up on the classics fanfiction genre.
* Add The Once and Future WitchesJune McEnroe2021-04-20
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* Add The Relentless MoonJune McEnroe2021-04-10
| | | | | More interesting than I remember the second book being, but so long too.
* Add BellwetherJune McEnroe2021-03-29
| | | | | | Found in a street library. Was surprised to find something other than mystery. It was amusing, but the writing and overall story was not great.
* Add Her Body and Other PartiesJune McEnroe2021-03-21
| | | | | | I have a problem with short stories. They pull you in and then take you nowhere. The stories were good though, and I especially liked the SVU one.
* Add The City We BecameJune McEnroe2021-03-15
| | | | | Gotta say the writing of Queens as a math nerd was kinda cringe though.
* Add Network EffectJune McEnroe2021-02-19
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* Add BintiJune McEnroe2021-02-07
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* Add I Hope We Choose LoveJune McEnroe2021-02-05
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* Add The Rosewater RedemptionJune McEnroe2021-01-31
| | | | Remembering how to read 2021.
* Add The Awakened KingdomJune McEnroe2020-09-20
| | | | A cute extra novella. Finally finished this series.
* Add The Kingdom of GodsJune McEnroe2020-09-10
| | | | Reading has really slowed down :(
* Add The Broken KingdomsJune McEnroe2020-07-10
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* Add Ancillary JusticeJune McEnroe2020-06-30
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* Add The Song of AchillesJune McEnroe2020-06-03
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* Add The Hundred Thousand KingdomsJune McEnroe2020-05-22
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* Add AutonomousJune McEnroe2020-05-11
| | | | Why do the bad guys get a happy ending though?
* Add The Rosewater InsurrectionJune McEnroe2020-05-03
| | | | Finally able to read again. But not a great sequel.
* Add The Ten Thousand Doors of JanuaryJune McEnroe2020-03-19
| | | | Uh oh, the library is closed.
* Add The Stone SkyJune McEnroe2020-03-08
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* Add Fierce Femmes and Notorious LiarsJune McEnroe2020-02-26
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* Add This Is How You Lose the Time WarJune McEnroe2020-02-23
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* Add The Obelisk GateJune McEnroe2020-02-19
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* Add To Be Taught, If FortunateJune McEnroe2020-02-09
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