4.75 - of particular interest to me was the biographical essay, but i would've loved to see more annotations for the more adult-geared tales

this gives me the same feeling as speak does...which is to say: good

hi i'm emotionally compromised but my gay little heart is so happy

2.5 - this was an interesting concept but something about the way it was written just didn't grab me :/

interesting concept but honestly? for the repetition of the same phrase (‘formal elegance') and appalling number of times the slur ‘g*psy' was used in a modern context and the switching between adoring and making digs at millennials....gonna have to give this a 2.5 :/

retroactively bumping my rating down a star bc i just now remembered how...obsessed with any POTENTIAL for an innuendo the author was. not everything is a sexual reference, my dude

(not saying that it never is, but that it doesn't happen as frequently as he seems to think it does)

holy moly this was unexpectedly painful to the emotions

at the start this read on the younger side of ya which is fine but now? after finishing it? let's just say i'm uncomfy and will be thinking about that damn cat story for a while

i'm gonna be thinking about the gray boy's work for a WHILE now trying to figure it out

4.75 - A U G H now i need to reread the bartimaeus series because i love having my heart curbstomped

4.75 - that_part_in_the_heathers_musical_at_the_beginning_of_fight_for_me_when_they_sing_HOLY_SHIT_over_and_over.mp3

WHY did no one put this in my hands sooner

4.75 - well........now what am i meant to do with my life?? my local libraries only carry so many gay historical romances and i don't have money to purchase ebooks...

4.75 - this was?? really good?? similar vibes to spin but way less hand-hold-y and a lot less focus on the violence

(show me where sadie is an unlikeable character. show me where she's anything but a grieving teen whose grief takes an incredibly reasonable shape and motivation.)

3.5/5, mostly because some stories were incomprehensible and a couple just didn't really have endings at all...or plots really

if you don't have full authority to arrest anyone, then by god you at least have the authority to sit on their unconscious body while waiting for the cavalry to arrive

patrick ness: releases a book
me, picking it up from the library: just fuck me up

me, reading this, every time i see tomie: WHAT ARE YOU? WHAT ARE YOU?

i have yet to watch the movie (movies? i have no clue) but i'm either gonna love it or hate it or take it at face value

anyway junji ito is a genius and i love him

EXTREMELY late review since i just remembered i read this, but...this just wasn't for me. felt like it was trying to do too much and we didn't really get to connect with any of the characters but i really really liked the concept :/

this felt like i was reading a goosebumps book but like...one of the mediocre ones even though i did really like the whole control-a-deadly-spider-with-telepathy-and-a-flute thing and the fact that mr crepsley doesn't give a single hoot about anything. whatta mood

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did i read this almost entirely because peter cushing (aka Dad Helsing) wrote the foreword? pretty much. did i thoroughly enjoy it despite that? absolutely

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i'm not emotionally compromised, YOU'RE emotionally compromised

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