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Wants to read The Master and Margarita

Rated A World Without Email: Reimagining Work in an Age of Communication Overload 6/10

Reading A Wizard of Earthsea

Reading Rise of the Lycanthrope

Wants to read House of Leaves

Wants to read Aching God

Wants to read Pretty Monsters: Stories

Rated Gone Girl 6/10

I very much understand what the big deal is about this book and also very very much understand why it bothers so many people. It is very compelling and clever and well-built; there is a twist about halfway through that I sort of saw ahead of time, and then some counter-twists that I did not expect. I can kind of recommend it if you like that sort of thing, but....<br/><br/>-<br/>-<br/>-<br/>-<br/>-<br/>-<br/>-<br/>SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS <br/>-<br/>-<br/>-<br/>-<br/>-<br/>...it hinges on two unpleasant archetypes of women. One, which is directly critiqued, is "Cool Girl," who is down for whatever and never asks for anything and defies "girliness." The other, which is not really critiqued, is "Jealous Vindictive Crazy Girl Who Lies to Punish People," which is presented waaaay too earnestly. There's a sourness about the whole book that makes it much less fun to read than it should be, even as you really want to find out how all the pieces fit together. <br/>

Reading They Stole a City: Wilmington's White Supremacist Coup and the Families Who Live with Its Legacy

Rated The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet 8/10

Added Finale

Wants to read War in Human Civilization

Finished reading Palaces of the Crow

Finished reading Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory

Rated Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West 10/10

Test review

Finished reading Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic

Reading Everything was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt

Wants to read Capital in the Twenty First Century

Wants to read How to Do Nothing with Nobody All Alone by Yourself: A Timeless Activity Guide to Self-Reliant Play and Joyful Solitude

Rated Planetfall 10/10

Wants to read Acceptance

Finished reading The Well of Ascension

Wants to read Doom Guy: Life in First Person

Added Until We Reckon to Want to Read

Added Apocalypse Never Forging the Path to a Nuclear Weapon-free World to Want to Read