

Review: Educated by Tara Westover
(Sorry I took so long to write this, I've been working 24/7 😍) Since it's been several weeks since I finished this book, I'm not the best equipped to write a comprehensive review. Instead, I'd like to focus on one aspect I found particularly resonant. As many of you can tell from my reading history and my scribblings, I'm quite interested in feminism. I fell into this interest due to my experiences in the modern world, and naturally that led me to explore its history. Women'
★★★★★-5
Feb 28


Review: Lord of the Flies by William Golding (Spoiler-Free)
Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind's essential illness. Well, this seems particularly resonant at this current...
★★★★-4.5
Sep 24, 2025


Review: I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman (Spoiler-Free)
I was perfectly aware that I had only added another question to all the others, but it was a new one, and, in the absurd world in which I...
★★★★★-5
Sep 10, 2025


Review: Simple Passion by Annie Ernaux, Translated by Tanya Leslie
When I went to the kitchen to get some ice, I would look up at the clock hanging above the door: 'only two more hours,' 'only one more...
★★★★★-5
Jul 5, 2025


Review: Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata (Spoiler-Free)
She's far happier thinking her sister is normal, even if she has a lot of problems, than she is having an abnormal sister for whom...
★★★★-4.5
May 26, 2025


Review: We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson (Spoiler-Free)
I began dressing Helen Clarke in my mind, putting her in a bathing suit on a snow bank, setting her high in the hard branches of a tree...
★★★★-4
May 6, 2025


Review: The State of Affairs: Rethinking Infidelity by Esther Perel
Our partners do not belong to us; they are only on loan, with an option to renew—or not. Knowing that we can lose them does not have to...
★★★★★-5
Feb 23, 2025


Review: The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff (Spoiler-Free)
The world, the girl knew, was worse than savage, the world was unmoved. I struggled with the writing style of this book when I first...
★★★★-4
Jan 6, 2025


Review: The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love by bell hooks
The crisis facing men is not the crisis of masculinity, it is the crisis of patriarchal masculinity. A compelling collection of essays...
★★★-3.5
Dec 24, 2024


Review: Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata (Spoiler-Free)
'Why wouldn't they want to know me?' Who wouldn't want to know me? This was a new idea for me. Our father had always thought we were...
★★★★-4
Sep 2, 2024
























