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so happy i came across this author. g and tomorrow were my favourite stories, yeti lovemaking got better the more i thought about it (ao3 authors could never write monsterfucking this way i'm so sorry and embarrassed by extension both). this is what i mean when i say i like mild body horror. super frustratingly abrupt endings, but at least it was all of the stories TT

i don't enjoy worldbuilding done this way (book inside the book was the worst thing to happen to me personally). let's stop with the villain monologues @ 1984 & fahrenheit 451. unfortunately the mc was terrible enough that i did not care much for his fate ;; and i think it was a loss for the story that he didn't have to die. boring choice. also couldn't suspend my disbelief about torture having this kind of effect

the first third annoyed me so much, got better towards the end, but still very middle class-centric to its detriment. feels very voyeuristic since most patients only find mention once. everyone talks the same... those are certainly not quotes; one of the pre-genai books that read like genai text dfhj. a lot of it is ridiculous to me especially, too ace to Get the thrill of the forbidden

no surprise: give me a book about a character who feels so lonely, detached from life they're suicidal, i'll enjoy it. i suspect being familiar with canada makes this more enjoyable, it goes over a lot of history (the colonisation isn't much reflected upon hmm) and nature. ended on too positive of a note, but that's me feeling left behind. you wouldn't find this nuance in the bestiality ao3 tag & that has me so sad

why is this man so gay

backed out at the second mention of bts, it was so viscerally digusting i fear there may be things wrong with me (also the plot was moving way too slowly)

i know i'll regret this one. it's Fine (through gritted teeth) -- on a related note, i think some/many of the children's books i grew up reading took young readers seriously as people, and this lack of respect towards young readers translating into writing that doesn't even attempt to be deep or beautiful but capitulates to 'trendy' really rubs me the wrong way.

idk if it was listening to it as an audio book but this was a rather disappointing experience. just not very impressive or interesting, overall. maybe the pov switches contributed to the detachment? it felt in many parts more like a very trodden-out thought experiment rather than a story. also painfully white cishet man-centric. interesting that fahrenheit 451 had an echo of its main oppressive character hmm

randomly came across this and thought, why not, knew nothing at all about it. mild regret, because i read he was an eugenicist and now i'm very confused as to which aspects of the book are meant to be dystopian ;;

did what i read it for (easing me into a historical setting while centred around the experience of non-royal characters), but oh dear do i not enjoy murder mysteries, or even romances. (i do enjoy romances, just not this one.) the best part of this was finding out the author was most preoccupied with the prince who was a real historical figure in this, but his presence is so muted throughout this book :o

seems i hit 500 read books now, seems both vanishingly few since i began tracking them here and too many to comprehend. if you look at my average rating,,, maybe i should stop the pursuit of reading as a hobby (only half jesting)

not truly enjoying this, the characters are a bit too snoozy (predictable) and the romance would have been better had it been one-sided (this man is too perfect=bland, sorry), and unsurprisingly now that they're close to solving the murder mystery it turned out i forgot who the suspects in question even are sjdf. but i do love the glimpses at structure & details of their daily lives, which is what i'm reading it for

told my friend i was conflicted about reading this (concerned about the residue it might leave behind in my head, since i forget everything except for stuff i dislike) and now they're asking at every turn whether i finished it :'

motivation to read this is the equivalent of reading fic with a certain tag when i'm writing something for the first time. maybe not the smartest decision to go for an audiobook (can only guess at spellings) but okay. i should enjoy the focus on servants

i fear this book affected me more than i ever thought. but idek how to explain it. that aside, it might have been my angst lover origin story

went from oh this feels like very skilled and beautiful writing to hmm. unsure at this point if the pov character feeling somewhat... empty is a wanted effect, or if she actually is lacking something. on paper, she should be intriguing to me. selfishly, i wish there were more of her observations of the environment too (don't mind me i'm not particularly invested in the plot ;;)

did no one fact-check this book. i dislike it already, this is a weird issue on top of that

if this book's conclusion after 300 pages will be "just love things you love, people are people and will always be messy" then i'll have to buy a physical copy to tear the pages out of one by one <- this is me having had expectations and the author having made very clear from the start that she does not want to provide an answer. which is what the book is being recommended for though...?

"The full moon was spilling its radioactive milk everywhere." ;;

could be one third of its actual length and still get its point across ;;