books log

from 2023 to 2024.

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december 2024

📚 one day (reread, continuing) 💖
📚 this is how you remember it (did not finish)

i feel like this author thinks i'm an idiot for how overexplainy some of this prose is

😐
📚 strong female character

november 2024

📚 book lovers

i am a hater of this sort of book (especially its cover!!!), but i did my best to read it with an open mind and enjoyed it well enough! solid 2.5~2.75 stars. i'm reluctant to read another though... i imagine this is in the upper tier of quality for this genre

📚 tampa (reread) 💥

october 2024

🎨 my solo exchange diary (reread)
📚 my education (did not finish)

way too dense, and (according to mallow) unsatisfying, so i just dropped it lol. we'll try buddy-reading another book...

september 2024

📚 my education (continuing)

I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS IS THE ONLY BOOK I'VE BEEN READING FOR A MONTH... i should start something new. it's very good though – just dense!!!

august 2024

📚 lord of the flies
📚 the artist's way (started) 🌱
📚 how to stand up to a dictator (started)
📚 lolita (finished)

FIIIINALLY got it done after many moons... it was good!!! there were some parts i felt myself getting bored by, but i feel the overall experience of reading it was very rich

📚 my education (started)

i'm doing this as a buddy read on the storygraph with my friend mallow!

july 2024

🎨 a boy's scar

oh i enjoyed this. warning for vampire shota and his ambiguously close relationship with the woman who had a crush on his mom LOL

📚 mother noise (finished) 🫶
🎨 miss don't touch me
📚 savaging the dark

holy fuck. like tampa but honestly maybe more insane?

📚 animal farm
📚 the idiot (did not finish) 😐
📚 flowers in the attic

absorbed it in two days – i haven't read anything so voraciously in a while. i must read the next installments immediately

💥
📚 wildwood (started)

june 2024

🎨 kid gloves: nine months of careful chaos 💖
🎨 himawari house

i felt so seen by this GN. and as a language lover, i love that it's not only in english!

💖
📚 mother noise (started)
📚 lolita (continuing)

i hate that this book is taking me so long. it's good i just need to be in the right state of mind to read nabokov's writing LOL

may 2024

📚 the lonely hunter (reread)
🎨 dancing at the pity party
➕ the art of ducktales 💖
📚 a doll's house

read bc i'd heard about it a lot and specifically because of my favorite bojack character (beatrice). took a minute to understand why it affected her so much but boy oh boy i GET it

💥

april 2024

🎨 stick n poke 🫶
🎨 dear brother
📚 diary of a wimpy kid series

recollecting these books secondhand because i wanted to read them again and still think they're very funny. i've collected and (re)read the first 6 volumes so far!

📚 monsters: a fan's dilemma (completed)

very extremely good; i wish i could get everyone to read this. the whole part about being a mother and an artist gave me so much to consider

💥

march 2024

📚 the majesties (completed)
📚 cold new climate (completed)
📚 lolita (started)

honestly probably the best written book i've ever read and i'm not even done

💥
📚 the diary of a bookseller (started)

february 2024

📚 the majesties (ongoing)
🎨 how to love 🫶
🎨 big beautiful female theory 👎
📚 kinky history (started)
📚 monsters: a fan's dilemma (started)
📚 cold new climate (started)

january 2024

📚 parallel lives

so fucking fun, i kept stopping to tell my family and friends about what was going on in the book lol

💖
📚 the majesties (started)
📚 the deep end of the sea

december 2023

📚 the bell jar (completed)

november 2023

📚 the bell jar (started)
➕ the art of mutant mayhem

find some pictures + commentary of it here :)

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🎨 but you have friends
📚 25,000 years of erotic freedom
📚 you deserve nothing
🎨 diana: a graphic memoir
📚 of love and other lemons

october 2023

🎨 devil's candy (started + caught up) 💖
🎨 unicorns aren't horny 🫶
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