Alexander

“When I'm with you, I want to play more than I want to win” is sweetest thing I've ever read holy shit

This is some top tier slow burn romance/slice of life goodness. Still waiting for the part that'll make me fall in love with the series, but I'm pretty confident that it's coming soon.

The voices, the fucking voices

alissa nutting makes sayaka murata look like nicholas sparks. this was easily the grossest book i've ever read, but nutting's unnerving vision and dedication to her characters made it a really engrossing read and makes me very excited to read her other works.

Sally Rooney is lit fic's Steph Curry. SHE DOESN'T MISS.

a great collection of essays, even if they didn't always feel the most cohesive and though there weren't any singular standout stories.

definitely enjoyable, but was missing something to take it to that next level, like people we meet on vacation's non-linear plot (STRAIGHT CRACK IN MY VEINS). worry it won't stick with me for that reason.

lady, have a little SELF-RESPECT!! i understand this novel is pretty strictly basing its story and characters in its time period and setting and there are many readers who like reading this kind of relationship (powerful, stoic duke and a pwetty lil gorl

And the Goodreads Choice Award for Messiest Main Character goes to.....

i'm always gonna be enticed by a novel about a woman on the verge of a nervous breakdown and this one did it with such a wicked singular vision that it nailed. i understood the narrator at her core because she is so well written and she works perfectly as the centerpiece of this story and as a vessel for exploring the stories of everyone around her. happy i got to read a book that whips so much ass.

So much of McCurdy's story is unrelatable to me, and her existence overall was such an unknown to me besides the awareness of her being a Nickelodeon actress and that week she dated Andre Drummond (it's not even in the book!), but I still found the book to be incredibly engrossing in spite of that. The levels of manipulation she had to face are brutal to read about, but it feels like an important story to tell and I'm happy she did it so succinctly.

An easy to enjoy collection of essays about pop culture, humanity, and the odd places where they intertwine from an essayist that I've admired for awhile now. Probably would've scored higher if more of the cultural touch points that the essays focused on were ones I was actually familiar with (my fault, not Puschak's).

I couldn't imagine a more predictable ending, but I guess it was still very sweet and cute.

Ending felt a little rushed and incomplete. Overall, the series never reached the highs I thought it could have, especially in terms of romance, but was still a pretty enjoyable coming-of-age story.

Not with a bang but a whimper.

ends a lot stronger than it begins and meanders a bit in the middle to the point of having already forgotten some of what occurs, but i overall really enjoyed reading this book and following the mystery through its blank slate protagonist. every ESJM book has to live in the shadow of station eleven (possibly my favorite novel ever), but i'm pretty sure this is my second favorite of her novels that i've read so far.

read this about two years ago and thought it was an incoherent mess. but after seeing continued praise for it and thinking about how my mindset and opinions have changed over the hundred-plus books i've read since then, i decided it was time for a revisit. i can now comfortably say i right the first time.

not the moan didion tell-all i was hoping for, but still an interesting, if not compelling, life story that your mom might've bought in the 90s and kept on the bookshelf with the spine facing inwards

Read this one on autopilot and will forget it ever existed very soon

Such a phenomenal book. The only drawback is that the audiobook is so spectacular and rich that the print book lacks a lot of personality by comparison.

The parts about the history surrounding zero:

Pretty book make brain go brrr.

What a fulfilling finale. Surely the two additional volumes don't do anything to ruin it.

Not enough of the good stuff, but there is at least some good stuff to be enjoyed.

not trying to dunk on YA, but if you told me this was actually YA, i'd 1000% believe you. enjoyed the world a lot (as does everyone) and some of the ideas the book presented about what the world could represent, but i really wasn't a fan of the writing style and many decisions involving the characters (why is piranesi so dumb???) and plot.