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Milk Fed by Melissa Broder
(heads up: this review contains mentions of eating disorders and body dysmorphia as well as explicit language) While I doubt that Milk Fed will win many awards, I sure hope that it wins the Bad Sex in Fiction Award. It 100% deserves to. βWas it real freedom? Unlikely. But my rituals kept me skinny, and…
1st pov, 2.5 STARS, Adult, ALIENATION, all of the trigger warnings, America, American, AMERICAN AUTHOR, bad love, BISEXUAL/PANSEXUAL, body dysmorphia, California, Contemporary, contemporary malaise, dark humor, eating disorders, f/f, female authors, film industry, graphic content, illness, incest-y, introspective, Jewish, lgbtq+, los angeles, Melissa Broder, mental health, Milk Fed, mumblecore, navel gazing, netgalley, published in 2021, queer, read in 2020, Religion, sapphic, sex, toxic relationships, trigger warning, work culture -
Earthlings by Sayaka Murata β book review
βThe person who had given birth to me said I was a dead loss, so I decided it really must be true.β A few days before reading Earthlings I read Sayaka Murata’s Convenience Store Woman and I really loved its humour and eccentric narrator. So, perhaps I approached Earthlings with the wrong expectations. Or maybe…
3 STARS, ALIENATION, ALIENS, BOOK REVIEWS, bullying, cannibalism, child abuse, Contemporary, Earthlings, family, female authors, feverish, graphic content, HIGH SCHOOL, HORROR, incest, japan, JAPANESE AUTHOR, LITERARY FICTION, MAGICAL REALISM, mental health, netgalley, Pedophelia, published in 2020, rape, read in 2020, Sayaka Murata, sexual assault/abuse/rape, SOCIAL COMMENTARY, surreal, TRANSLATED FICTION, trauma, trigger warning, violence, weird -
Too Much: How Victorian Constraints Still Bind Women Today by Rachel Vorona Cote
TW: mentions of self-harm Not only was Too Much not enough but what little it offers is wholly problematic. This book would have made slightly more sense if it had been published in 2010 instead of 2020. Its analysis of the social norms and literature emerging from the Victorian era are far from insightful or…
1 STAR, American, AMERICAN AUTHOR, Booklr, books about books, books i hate, female authors, feminism, films, literary criticism, mental health, problematic, published in 2020, Rachel Vorona Cote, read in 2020, self-harming, SEXUALITY, Too Much: How Victorian Constraints Still Bind Women Today, trigger warning, trying and failing @ feminism
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