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After Sappho by Selby Wynn Schwartz

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Did not finish book. Stopped at 56%.
wonderful fragments of the lives sappho influenced throughout italy and her islands in the early 20th century 

DNF as a fault of my own, the history of lesbianism without intersectionality is hard for me to accept, such beauty falls lacklustre 
Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power by Byung-Chul Han

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challenging informative reflective slow-paced

2.5

‘The capitalism of Like should come with a warning label: Protect me from what I want.’

‘Luxury as a freedom - like play that is truly free - can be thought only beyond the world of work and consumption. Viewed in this light, it stands close to asceticism.’

‘True happiness comes from what runs riot, lets go, is exuberant and loses meaning - the excessive and superfluous.’

unfortunately, outside of these fair declarations, the judgments that were pass from a place of superiority undermined the effectiveness of comparative philosophical discourse.
Beware of Pity by Stefan Zweig

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challenging relaxing slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.25

Oh, the dramatics of it all… Beautiful prose, of course, with an interesting selection of adjectives at times that have that distinct 20th-century quality to them. Definitely reads more like a string of consciousness than anything more construed as far as cautionary tales go, which was pleasing, though, man, Toni Hofmiller is a complete puff(derogatory)((though in the reclamative tone of a lesbian woman)). The diagloues we’re engaging and so believable, no flowerly or suspended disbelief, which really drew me in. I’m happy to have learnt about Zweig’s friend and of my time spent uncovering the highly emotional Kekesfalva’s.
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel

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adventurous challenging funny reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

A comic!! how fun, I thought; what a tragic concoction of passages, I realised... 

Bechdel’s hold on language is God-sent. As a queer person raised in a catholic albeit unconventional household, Bechdel’s familial dynamics in the Creek rang dangerously close to home… I found comfort in this Fun House— my own fascination with the aesthetics of masculinity led to a false identity of bisexuality. The use of grey was a beautiful stylistic choice for the comic, the interlinking of chapters so effortlessly well-done, and my biggest emotional takeaway right now is that I need to know how Bechdel would describe everything in the world, ever. Big up dykes.

‘And indeed, if our family was a sort of artists’ colony, could it not be even more accurately described as a mildly autistic colony?’

‘He did hurtle into the sea, of course. But in the tricky reverse narration that impels our entwined stories, he was there to catch me when I leapt.’

Erotic truth uncovered.
Before We Say Goodbye by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

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inspiring lighthearted fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

2.75

The Details by Ia Genberg

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adventurous challenging emotional inspiring fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

Pure class. The inextricably tangible details weaving the fabic of everyday life novelised. To know yourself is to understand those around you.
I Cannot be Good Until You Say it by Sanah Ahsan

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slow-paced

2.75

i’ve known better queer poc poets who stab more edgingly into the disassociative memory-bone 

sanah ahsan uses old, immigrant-religiosity to bring forth 21st century tears; when held up to scripture, their poetry is lacklustre 
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

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adventurous emotional hopeful informative inspiring mysterious reflective medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

‘Truly, nothing in the world has occupied my thoughts as much as the Self, this riddle, that I live, that I am one and am separated and different from everybody else, that I am Siddhartha; and about nothing in the world do I know less than about myself, about Siddhartha...’


‘I have asked the river, my friend, I have asked it many times, and the river shook itself with laughter at our folly. Water will go with water,’


‘Everything that was not suffered to the end and finally concluded, recurred, and the same sorrows were undergone,’
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Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart

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emotional reflective sad medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

his life was sour when all he craved was sugar sweetness.
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The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

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challenging dark informative medium-paced

5.0

“ Hence the question: Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house? “

I took my time with this beauty, and have been emboldened by these great words against racism in our society