The Book Leo

Basically, I wanted something atmospheric and dark. Anything that can make me feel the way that I felt when I was reading One Dark Window for the first time.

If you loved Project Hail Mary and you loved her other series, A Psalm for the Wild Built, you're going to love To Be Taught, If Fortunate.

It's still my guilty pleasure. I had a great time, but I recognize its flaws.

And boy, oh boy, I could talk about this book for an hour, I think. ... where I think this book really shines is that it perfectly walks the line between like exposing and criticizing the trad wives and showing empathy for them.

But this book was so wonderful. About a young, kind of naive, shy girl who runs away from home to find the witch, the illustrious of which Theodora, and her tea shop, so she can become her apprentice.

I still ended up really, really loving this book, and I gave it four stars. ... it's also full of sapphic yearning, just endless yearning between two women. I love that.

This book is like a train wreck that you can't look away from. It's like Fleabag on steroids. After I finished it though, I didn't feel fully satisfied because I think I was constantly waiting for there to be a point to the story...

This has been translated from Italian and it follows the life of two expats who move to Berlin. Oh man, this book, it's like it's kind of satirical, but also relatable...

Just like in yesteryear, Andrea Dworkin is both absolutely scathing of these Christian women, but also remains empathetic. Her main take ... is that a lot of Christian or right-wing women see the reality of society...

Oh my gosh, guys, if you read one nonfiction book this year, let it be this one. Naomi Klein has somehow managed to make a book that is about so many different things, so many different subjects, and they all feel genuinely related to each other.

I think it's an incredibly interesting way to have a more positive outlook on how we can use technology and the internet for feminism. ... I will say that I find that the book kind of repeats itself very often, and I don't think that the glitch metaphor always works really well.

I will say that the focus of this book is a little all over the place. ... So if that sounds interesting to you, then I would recommend the Pain Gap.

And I absolutely inhaled it. And there is a lot to be said about Lena Dunham, but that woman can write.

This has a wonderfully interesting premise. You follow a group of astronauts as they go to kind of research different planets... It's all very wholesome and utopian.

I really feel like this is one of those books that you could recommend to anyone. Yes, it is very sciency, but please do not be held back by that.

I know her from this book, Juniper and Thorn. Which was a really weird horror adult book, and I really liked it.

The Vegetarian by Han Kang, incredible and also short book but it makes me so uncomfortable that I can only read it for little bits at the time. I do think it's just a really interesting take on women deciding to not play according to the rules of society anymore.

I love it. But they're talking about how you can do it in a feminist way. How you can use data in a feminist way, which I think is very interesting and very relevant.

Although I do enjoy Inamorata, it's too much of the same more just disturbing dark stuff. So far, it is about this world where there's like the a house the house of teeth and the house of blood and the house of bones. Very cool.

I love when authors are capable of really keeping you on the edge of your seat in such a short book. But, it is a super interesting look into the world of these content moderators because that is, of course, a real thing.

And then of course, I cannot make a video about weird books without recommending Bunny by Mona Awad, one of my favorite books of all time.

You may of course know her most well-known novel, which is The Night Circus. I think The Starless Sea has just slightly more whimsical qualities to it in a sense that the entire book feels like a little puzzle or even a scavenger hunt.

The fae are actually scary and mean, but somehow Heather Fawcett writes it in such a way that it never is scary, but it always feels cozy and just a little strange.

I love books that have a lot of imagery of rots and mushrooms and decay, and this book is full of that.