bigtiddygothgf's reviews
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live, laugh, love elizabeth zott


a story about women, science, grief, and that everyday is new

reylo authors are NOT letting me down this time!!!!!!

3.75 stars rounded up

the amount of miscommunication in this book made me wanna lobotomize myself

eros and psyche is one of my favorite greek mythology couples so you can BET it got 5 stars

this book was full of tropes i love and eros was down bad for psyche, as he should be!

rtc

3.5 stars rounded up

this book follows the simonverse characters, specifically leah (as you can tell from the title) as she struggles through many changes a crush on a girl who is best friend who is dating her other best friend. 

this book was enjoyable! i loved being able to see the characters from simon vs the homo sapiens agenda in a new light and simon and bram were adorable! i really liked abby (she's SUCH a cutie) and thought nick was a little bitch baby! i even liked leah! she's very cynical and negative but i still enjoyed her and the prom dress scene will probably stick with me for a while (here's for the girls that hate going clothes shopping in general because nothing fits and everything is too small for you AYYYYYY- ngl it made me cry LMAO)

my complaint is just the ending. it was so abrupt and did not address ANY of conflict points in the story. leah is against her mom's boyfriend the whole book, but actually talks to him towards the end and starts to like him. but we get NO addressing of that. how does leah break the news to garrett (who has a CRUSH on her) that she doesn't like him?? how does nick react to who leah ends up with?? all of these plot points were forgotten, and while we did get an email epilogue detailing who gets with who (which was so random btw) that is IT. it just left me reeling because the ending was so abrupt, and it lowkey just made the entire book seem pointless. 

overall a good book though! it just left me feeling unfulfilled and eh, but it was a fun ride while it was going. 

ah, the play that has traumatized many english classes for years past and will continue to do this for years to come!

this play centers around the accusations and trials against those accused of witchcraft during the salem witch trials, which the author uses to show the similarities between this event and the red care during the 50s. 

i expected this to be a long and boring play, but i found it surprisingly compelling. the plot was interesting and i found myself angered and anxious over what would become of the accused, knowing nothing they said would make a difference in the otherworldly evidence in which they were being convicted. if i was forced to read this for an english class i probably would have hated it, but i read it for my own enjoyment, and i read it as a performer, not a student, which also helped me to connect more the characters (just acting things i suppose, or as i like to say, delusion). 

i do have a few problems with this play though and that is of course, the women. the salem witch trials was an event in which women were the main victims. they were the majority of those hung and were widely known as the victims of this event. that being said, they were an afterthought in this play. not surprising, considering this was written in the 50's era by a man, but still. for a story portraying the event that affected (effected? who knows) mostly women, it has a neutral stance to it that disappoints me. the women in this story either aren't given enough stage time so we can feel for them (we can feel for them only briefly through a village man's speech) or they are portrayed as bitch. 

case in point, abigail williams. 

dear god. 

abigail williams was an overarching choice the author chose to do that rubs me the wrong way. first of all, she slept with a 30 man (john), who was HER EMPLOYER!! and we are supposed to feel sympathy towards the man? he was obviously the adult here and CHOSE to sleep with a girl who was his employee and also did not have a fully developed prefrontal cortex, but john is the one we are meant to feel sympathy for? the character of abigail is meant to anger, she was written to be a character we all don't like, and that's fine. my personal gripe is that she is made into a villain for acting her age (SEVENTEEN) and is called a "whore", "harlot", and "bitch"? abigail is a CHILD but she acts childishly (aka, accusing john's wife of being a witch so that she will be hanged and john will marry abigail) and yet we are supposed to be feel so so so sorry for john who slept with a child and now feels bad for cheating? obviously what abigail does is wrong, but she had the potential to be such an interesting character, because so little is known about her? we don't know the truth about why the real abigail williams started the accusations (we can guess, but we won't ever know the full truth) and the reasoning miller gave was to shallow for my tastes. the main men in this play (john, hale, parris, etc) have depth to them, and the women fall flat. disappointing. 

i understand why miller chose not to focus on the women in this story though, because it was not the meaning he was trying to convey. miller wanted to highlight the neighbor vs. neighbor and the game of "he said she said" that ruined countless lives during both the salem witch trials and the red scare. in looking at what story he WAS telling, miller did a great job. i was thoroughly into it and i would perform in this play if given the chance. 

overall, a very good play, that was compelling and made me think ever since i've finished it. though it could do with a better portrayal of women, but oh well, my modern way of thinking and i will continue to think about communism and witches for the rest of the week at least. 

NOW HERE'S SOME QUOTES I REALLY LIKE:

"...cleave to no faith when faith brings blood. It is a mistaken law that leads you to sacfrice. Life, woman, life is God's most precious gift; no principle, hower glorious, may justify the taking of it." 

hale's entire monoluge at this part is so so SO good!

"To all intents and purposes, the power of theocracy in Massachusetts was broken" 

wonderful WONDERFUL ending line, had me gasping for breath fr. 

if there is one thing you need to know about me, it is that i will always read and love any book written by malinda lo (i say as i have only read two of her books)

this was a coming of age summer story following aria as she spends time with her grandmother in california during the supreme court decisions to legalize gay marriage. 

lo's writing is just incredibly profound, in my opinion. this book in particularity was so cinematic? the way she would write things drew me in and i could *see* the book so vividly. i love the way lo's writing just draws you in. 

also the way lo depicts sapphic women just speaks directly to me and it's like she scooped some of my soul out and put it into her books? idk how to describe it but the way she writes queer women make me feel incredibly seen and it just soothes me okay✋ 

anyways, i just finished this book like twenty minutes ago and i am still stewing in the things it made me feel, which was a lot. the ending especially hit me hard, not to spoil anything but the sudden and quick loss just spoke to me really hard. this book was so good, this and 'last night at the telegraph club' will forever be special to me (queer history bro!) and malinda lo is a godsend to queer books, and to BOOKS overall.

much love xx

much, much, MUCH better than the movie!

simon's voice was so unique and dorky and he just felt so real. the friend group was awesome and albertalli's writing just gives me a fun buzzy feeling. i felt like i was in a really great friend group. 

and the narrator was just phenomenal. 

not much to say, i just had a great time

was much more invested in the blue and red robot and korse then in the main storyline! once again proves that the gay are always more interesting!

the art was very good and the story was interesting but i was very confused for most of it (someone tell me what fandom this is from because i think i picked up a prequel novel T-T) and the ending was hella rushed (main battle was finished in two pages, like five panels). overall kept me entertained for an hour so slay.