i hated reading logs as a kid.
They made me write down the book I read, which pages, when I read it, what genre it was (d-y-s-t-o-p-i-a). Then when they let me leve elementary school I was put on Goodreads, where you write reviews and put shiny stars to try to measure the inscrutable nature of literature. Boring! Anyway, I love to read, I hate writing book reviews. I do use stars here, sometimes. For my purposes, anything above 3 compelled me enough to finish the book, 4 means well written, and five is great. Five means I thought about the book for a while. Some don't have ratings. Highlighted in dark blue are my favorites. Go to the library and pick something up.
2024
September
Close to the Knives: A Memior of Disintegration - David Wojnarowicz
Those who leave and those who stay - Elena Ferrante
A Story of a New Name - Elena Ferrante
August
My Brilliant Friend - Elena Ferrante
Into the Woods - Tana French
In the Dream House - Carmen Maria Machando
Transit - Rachel Cusk
May
Eleanor Oliphant is perflectly fine 3/5
1984 - George Orwell 4/5
Birnam Wood - Elizabeth Catton 4/5
Orlando - Virginia Woolf
APRIL
Outline - Rachel Cusk 4/5
The Searcher - Tara French 2/5
Ulysses - James Joyce (ask me my thoughts about this book and I run)
MARCH
Written on the Body - Jeanette Winterson 4/5
Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter - Simone de Beauvoir 5/5
We Had to Remove This Post - Hanna Bervoets 3/5
The Hunter - Tana French 4/5
Another Country - James Baldwin
American Pastoral - Philip Roth 5/5
Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
Why be happy when you could be Normal? - Jeanette Winterson?
FEBUARY
To be taught, if fortunate - Becky Chambers 3.5/4
Marytr! - Kaveh Akbar 4/5
JANUARY
Don't Look at Me Like That - Diana Athill 3/5
Stay True - Hua Hsu 4/5