alicedroni's reviews
64 reviews

Let at læse, hvis du lærer dansk, men forfatteren lyder som en knasende gammel dame. 

Get ready to be furious.

All the statistics and data behind that unshakeable feeling that you're getting screwed over somehow. This book does an amazing job of describing all the lesser known and indirect ways women are treated as lesser in society. It's infuriating but also validating. Her writing style and sense of humor are much needed and appreciated to break up all the rage inducing data.

Gotta get all of my male colleges to read this now.

I immediately donated money to No More Deaths after reading this book. 

The author breaks down the entire border crisis in a very accessible way, giving tons of informative context split up with personal stories backing up the previous sections points. 

It's impossible to come away from this book without an incredible respect for migrants and solidarity workers, as well as a new fire to research how to help your nearest border crossing.

For me this is the perfect witchcraft book. It's more of a personal reflection on what witchcraft means to the author and how she incorporates it in her life. She has a really beautiful way of mixing vivid narratives about experiences in her own life with practical knowledge and history. There were of course some chapters i related to more and felt very captured by and some i felt less connected to but it was really fun and interesting all the way though. 

The spells at the end of each chapter are nice and small, easy to tweak to your own preferences and pretty generally applicable. I also personally really like that nothing feels too heavily spiritual. There's very little talk of deities outside of a historical sense, and the spells are small instead of big religious like rituals. 

Cute, Queer, Gorgeous worldbuilding. 

Simple story but really pretty universe and i love that it is just unquestionably and unapologetically queer.

I'm definitely going to revisit this with a paper copy, the audio book is incredible but it felt like it repeated at one point and i think the ideas need to marinate a bit more than an audiobook allows.

Such a great collection of super varied and diverse perspectives. A great mix of personal experiences and scientific studies. There were many sections I found myself really battling my own biases, particularly the parts about accessibility and viewing "urban hiking" as not real hiking, I really loved that re-framing. So much inspiring material here. 

I first saw this book years ago and kind of wrote it off since it's art style feels a little bit like a political cartoon and that's not usually something I'm drawn to but somehow it works for this story? The author does a good job of mostly staying sympathetic to Dahmer while also not letting him avoid responsibility. 

It's a little tough to see the author and his friends become the only one's who knew what was going on, yet still refuse to help. I get it though, as much as I'd like to think I'd do something different I'm pretty sure my highschool-self would also be too overwhelmed and just cut ties. The narrative really leaves you with a lot to reflect on.

This is my all-time favorite book. I feel like every book I read is instantly compared to this one (and nothing has even come close yet imo). 

Danielewski is truly incredible at twisting the definition of what a "novel" is or can be. The format is like nothing I've ever seen before, the typography is literally art, the story telling breaks dimensions, and the book physically forces you to read it in bizarre ways to mirror the strangeness of the plot itself. The experience of this book is absolutely worth every second.

I listened to this audiobook on a train because it's INESCAPABLE and it was SO not worth the hype. 

It's basically: Man-child learns how to empathize with other humans only after witnessing something absolutely tragic (huge trigger warning) and then makes the tragedy all about himself and how it taught him how to finally be a human being.

Also he constantly brags about how much he *definitely absolutely fucks all the time for sure*