buthainna's reviews
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this is one of my least favorite YA novels that I have ever read. Unfortunately, I could not relate to the protagonist, and I did not understand her. I didn't understand any of the characters for that matter she hated them one day she was their best friend the next day, I just couldn't understand. It felt like the author had vivid, descriptions and images, and a clear vision for these characters only inside her head, but she couldn't really translate it so well into words for us to understand, and I couldn't even understand the romance between the protagonist and the boy she likes I couldn't appreciate when they actually started liking each other 

this is not a bad book. I just personally did not enjoy it. It was not what I expected it to be. I thought it would be a lot more philosophical and self reflecting, and even though it was that way at times, it was mostly about palliative care, and nursing homes and caring for the elderly and what it is that matter is most to people at the end of their lives, and how we as medical professionals should deal with it.
it was almost mind numbingly boring at times, and if I hadn't had the audiobook then I probably would never have finished reading it.

The story of an Olympic athlete who later became an escort due to a mental disorder. The reason I don't like this book is just how sexual it is. Unfortunately the way this woman's bipolar disorder manifested was mostly a hyperactive sex drive, the thing that led her to becoming a call girl in Las Vegas and leaving her family behind. You'll read about her life as a teenager as she was getting into competitive sports, dealing with the pressures of that, and with her brother's suicide. Later on she explains how she got into escorting and what that life was look. 
The book ends when a reporter outs her in a front page scandal, forcing her to quit her fun life. A few months later she receives her bipolar diagnosis. 
I wish she talked more about her recovery and life after diagnosis. 

This was hilarious. I didn't expect it to be so comedic. Despite some personal qualms with parts of the book, I really enjoyed it. 
Since it's a collection of journal entries that read like tweets (short and funny), it was very easy to read before bed. 

this may have just become one of my favorite books of all time
I have never read a family saga before, and I don't know if they are always this amazing, but Pachinko has definitely raised my bar high.
It starts with Sunja during the Japanese colonization of Korea, and follows her through her immigration to Japan with her husband, where they start a family and have two sons.
There are so many characters in this book, but you get to know the story of every single one of them. There is no shallow character, and even though there are a lot of them, the story is very easy to grasp and connect to. She wrote about the nuances of identity, nationality, loyalty, home country, morality war, immigration, and poverty so realistically, and managed to display the complexities of these people in such an absorbing and fascinating manner. 

I dont know why I put this book off for so long. 
I mean I actually do, I tend to avoid books that have a lot of hype around them.
This one is totally worth the hype though! 

This was a unique book, typical of japanese literature. 
Our protagonist felt completely exhausted and burnt out after spending 14 years in her previous job (the specifics of which weren't revealed until the very end). 
She goes to a recruiting agency and asks for "an easy job" that requires no brain power or anything like that.
The book has five chapters, each one about a different short-term job that she tries out. They vary from bus advertising to "an easy job in a hut in a forest".
The first chapter was very intriguing to me and I enjoyed it a lot, but by the end of the second one I started getting bored and so switched to listening to the audiobook while doing a jigsaw puzzle. 
There's nothing jaw dropping in this book, not much deep thinking or introspection, the protagonist isn't much inspiring or relatable and I never truly understood her.
Just an average book to me.

I was expecting more greatness out of Fahrenheit 451. 
The characters felt superficial, the world bland, the story unfinished. 
I wanted to see more of what became of Mortag, his wife (if she survived), the book people, even Clarisse's family. 
It felt like the book ended just as it was about to get good.
I read the introduction written by Bradbury after finishing the book, and understand now that he was young when he wrote the book and has some regrets about it now. 

It’s so boring, it’s not progressing at all

I want to cry from how much I loved this book. I devoured it in two days. 
It's so emotional and is exactly the type of YA I crave. It's about Declan and Juliet, two teenagers with their own set of pain and misery. 
She lost her mother in a car crash. He lost his sister in a car crash caused by his father. 
They both feel estranged and hopeless. 
Things happen and they start exchanging letters anonymously in a cemetary, where she goes to visit her mother and he works to make up for community service.
It's absolutely beautiful. The slow burn, opening up to each other, letting go of facades.
It made my heart ache and I wanted to cry so many times. Both of them felt -and were- abandoned by what remained of their families, and by the end you can see them starting to solve their issues. 
I love and hate how it ended. Loved, because it was executed perfectly and made a lot of sense. Hated, because I want to READ MORE !!!! an absolute gem