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Idk! I'm not feeling it??

What if books were written in a more interesting manner? Huh? What then

I was concerned this wasn't a case of matching someone's freak, that someone was going to be flattened by another's freak, but no! They did it. They, in fact, matched the freak.

Finished Butter today, and honestly it was so damn good. Another star in the pantheon of Japanese feminist literature, lushly written (and translated), gorgeous prose and story about what's expected of women, about shame and culture, and feelings around food and desire and loneliness and fatphobia. Truly wonderful book. Also if I had a nickel for every time I read a book this year about women's relationships with food, I think I'd have like? Three nickels. I want more.

Only dinging a quarter of a star because there were so many moments where I thought Yuzuki was going to say something deeper about lust between women + bisexuality + wanting a romantic relationship with other women and it went nowhere... Like, you can't have a woman be like "yah all the girls in my class loved me for my masc swag, my best friend (who's a little in love with me and doesn't really like men) calls me her prince, also I feel such lust and hunger for this woman who I fear and pity" and then go "and they're all still heterosexual and never think about not being straight" ... Yuzuki, miss maam ... Fix it.

A case where not even school sports can save a teenage girl, and in fact, made shit much much MUCH worse.

Whatever insight I gained from this has been tainted by the platforming of an admitted pedophile/repeat offender as some kind of LGBT hero... Um. Anyways Galen, I hope they throw your ass back in.

No, because exactly. Like, exactly, that's what I was thinking and talking about, and I know I'll need to reread it soon but exactly. 

Interesting but not interesting enough. Very bootlicky. And I hate the way people talk about Evelyn nesbit

Still impactful as I first remembered it, though weirdly shorter than I remember it being? It's strange how time changes the shape of a book in your mind.