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Jonathan
is 98% done
became a chore to finish reading, unfortunately. didn't help that four out of the last five stories all revolved around women being brutally murdered. i feel like this book would have worked as non-fiction (interviews). the stories were almost all structured the exact same way, and didn't seem to have all that much of a narrative to offer aside from women resisting but eventually being killed by misogyny.
— Aug 18, 2026 02:33PM
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Jonathan
is 99% done
one story that listed ways in which women had been raped and murdered threw in a 'i never heard of this happening to any man' about a specific scenario and it immediately reminded me of a black man who was raped and murdered in this exact way for being black and bi here, and i cannot imagine that this is violence unique to a single country. ah well, served to solidify the impression that this book wasn't for me
— Aug 18, 2026 02:37PM
Jonathan
is 53% done
true equality is giving poor and rich characters the exact same speech/thought patterns // i also wonder why one would, in an english translation, leave spanish words as fragments of--what, authenticity? are these concepts truly so untranslatable? to rub salt into the wound of the reader not speaking spanish? since i only have apps set up to explain english words, i won't interrupt reading just for this :/
— Aug 15, 2026 02:17AM