| 11/4/24 |
This Night Is Ours
Ronni Davis |
My pal Ronni's second book! A cute 24-hour romance about an artistic girl with big feelings. I really enjoyed her journey. |
| 9/30/24 |
The Golden Enclaves
Naomi Novik |
Emotional conclusion to the Scholomance trilogy! Plenty of feelings, action, inspiration, disappointment, and wonderful human relationships of every kind. |
| 9/5/24 |
Down Girl
Kate Manne |
Wonderful book analyzing misogyny and figuring out what drives it. Incredible insights into how and why misogyny manifests and persists. |
| 6/12/24 |
The Ace and Aro Relationship Guide
Cody Daigle-Orians |
A lovely ace and aro–centric guide on how to approach relationships that truly serve our needs, while respecting ourselves and others. I got to read it early because I was asked to blurb it. |
| 5/18/24 |
Magic for Beginners
Kelly Link |
This book of short stories kinda felt like a fever dream. I didn't enjoy it but I thought it was good, if that makes sense. Some of the concepts and ideas will be with me a long time, but I didn't like how unsettled I felt throughout reading it and I didn't like that most of the stories just kind of stopped happening rather than ending. |
| 3/14/24 |
The Last Graduate
Naomi Novik |
The second Scholomance book did not disappoint! I liked it better than the first because it had less distracting exposition. The main character was very realistic considering she was in a magic book. I loved her relationships, her personal doubts and frustrations, and the depiction of privilege and politics in the book. Despite seeing such a tiny slice of the population in the form of wizard kids getting their education, you really get the feeling that there's an incredibly fleshed out world out there. |
| 1/16/24 |
Loveless
Alice Oseman |
People have said they wanted my opinion on this book since it's mainstream fiction and has an asexual, aromantic protagonist. Happy to say it didn't disappoint me, and even though I didn't particularly relate to the protagonist's experience, I did think it's relatable enough that plenty of people will get some validation from it that they hadn't before--especially if they thought they couldn't be ace or aro because they like fiction about relationships and looked forward to falling in love someday. |