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when i made this blog, i thought i'd be doing a lot of book reviews. that decidedly did not happen, as you can assume from the preponderance of ai posting i've done. in any case, to save a certain amount of face, i'm just going to make an update on what i've read recently. i made it about 40% of the way through not my father's son and then had to drop it from boredom. the abuse cumming experienced was certainly horrific, but i felt just wholly distant from the book. it's not like i'm expecting to stumble upon some moral from a person's real life experiences, but if i'm reading a book i'd like at least for it to inspire something in me. this book did not do that for me, and sure, maybe i can't say that when i've not read the whole book yet, but i find that if i'm 40% into a book and haven't found a single portion that i genuinely enjoy, it's not worth it. perhaps if i'd been interested in him or had even remotely heard of him before i picked the book up, i might've enjoyed it more. none of that happened. i wouldn't really recommend it; i know someone who was shilling it lots, but i just couldn't understand what portions they enjoyed.
additionally, i've been slacking off. boy parts is another book i'm working my way through (and by that i mean it's been almost a year since i started & i hit 50% in three months and didn't open it again). i want to finish that one; i'm not quite sure what my feelings on it are yet, but i think at the very least that the main character's interesting and that well, it's a novel novel.
aside from that, i'm actually attempting to start a couple of books on my tbr list. there's a ya novel that i'm honestly not looking forward to at all, but since it's a book club book, i'll be doing that in the future. i can't be bothered to recall its name right now, but in its synopsis, i vividly remember the words "the infamous 2020 graduates"... and really, infamous just repulsed me a bit. i don't know what it is about that word choice, but i just couldn't see myself liking the book afterwards. i've a bit of an issue with turning my nose up at ya books, but given the state of the industry right now, i feel like that's a bit warranted.
in other news, from my actual tbr list: i'm really trying to start black reconstruction in america right now. checking out the page number count made me a tad bit dizzy, but it's not as though i'm obligated to finish it all in one sitting, and i'd love to further expand my worldview. courtesy of a friend, i'm also trying to read hitchhiker's guide to a galaxy right now. i enjoyed octavia butler's "amnesty" as well as "bloodchild" (lots of emphasis on the latter. i'd love to reread the former in the future so i can better formulate my thoughts on it, though!), so i'm also interested in reading her other short stories as well as maybe even one of her novels. there's a bunch of books i want to read. i feel like that's about it for my reading recap. ideally i get boy parts finished first, but who really knows?
additionally, i've been slacking off. boy parts is another book i'm working my way through (and by that i mean it's been almost a year since i started & i hit 50% in three months and didn't open it again). i want to finish that one; i'm not quite sure what my feelings on it are yet, but i think at the very least that the main character's interesting and that well, it's a novel novel.
aside from that, i'm actually attempting to start a couple of books on my tbr list. there's a ya novel that i'm honestly not looking forward to at all, but since it's a book club book, i'll be doing that in the future. i can't be bothered to recall its name right now, but in its synopsis, i vividly remember the words "the infamous 2020 graduates"... and really, infamous just repulsed me a bit. i don't know what it is about that word choice, but i just couldn't see myself liking the book afterwards. i've a bit of an issue with turning my nose up at ya books, but given the state of the industry right now, i feel like that's a bit warranted.
in other news, from my actual tbr list: i'm really trying to start black reconstruction in america right now. checking out the page number count made me a tad bit dizzy, but it's not as though i'm obligated to finish it all in one sitting, and i'd love to further expand my worldview. courtesy of a friend, i'm also trying to read hitchhiker's guide to a galaxy right now. i enjoyed octavia butler's "amnesty" as well as "bloodchild" (lots of emphasis on the latter. i'd love to reread the former in the future so i can better formulate my thoughts on it, though!), so i'm also interested in reading her other short stories as well as maybe even one of her novels. there's a bunch of books i want to read. i feel like that's about it for my reading recap. ideally i get boy parts finished first, but who really knows?