An egregiously long review of every book I've read so far this year.

I think that the first half of this book was so much stronger than the half. The second half becomes a little bit disjointed for me. I don't really empathize with the character as much as I did in the first half.

I did lose a little bit of interest in this after it veered away from being about more of the history of cod into like some random cooking things and adages about cod. It wasn't my favorite, but if you like cod, if somebody's really big cook, this is great for them.

I don't know if I would suggest this to people. I wouldn't I definitely wouldn't give this book to somebody unless I knew that they were just open for the experience and I don't even know if I want to use the term open because there's a lot of things in this that I absolutely do not agree with.

I don't think this is going to be for everybody, but I think that this was a fun little read, and yeah, I thought about it quite a bit since, and I like the voice, and it felt very Substack article that has made its way onto the page and feels really relevant for a lot of girlies.

I suggest this to literally everyone. I think it's so good. Probably one of my definitely one of my favorite books of the year.

I think that Tokarczuk is a great writer. This just was not a successful matching for me.

You know that Steinbeck is one of my favorite writers of all time. All of his books do feel like you're coming away with this really fundamental teaching. I think East of Eden it's all good versus evil, Grapes of Wrath it's the haves versus have not.

This was fantastic. I mean, really beautiful. I'm always so happy when I do find that Baldwin is as great of a writer as everyone says.

That details Nin's affair with Henry Miller and his wife June. Polycule. Hello. This very artistic bohemian lifestyle. It was all these letters. I didn't really think that was that shocking.

Really wonderful. I mean, Morrison is so lyrical.

Really great, and this reads so quickly. I mean, I just remember every morning waking up and wanting to read about this.

I did think that this was very gossipy, very easy to listen to. Felt like I was watching a video essay on Madonna. If you're a super fan, listen to this.

This is not going to be one of my favorite books, but as far as storytelling goes, you really can't get any better than this. You can't get better than a true saga like this.

Do I Do I think I loved this book? No, but there were so many awesome sentences in this. There were so many awesome things about this.

I thought that there were some really interesting stories. Some were a little bit of a snooze fest, but ultimately I had a pretty okay time with this one.

I liked this book a lot more than I thought I was going to like it. I thought that this book brought out a lot of problematic things that are happening within our schooling system. It's brought to light so many stories that are not fiction.

All of his books do feel like you're coming away with this really fundamental teaching. I think East of Eden it's all good versus evil, Grapes of Wrath it's the haves versus have not. I think that also ties into Of Mice and Men.

I wasn't so in love with this, but I think the reason that this became so popular is because it's so disgusting for a lot of people.

I had read Pure Colour, or I listened to it on audiobook, which I don't think was the proper way to consume that book, but I wanted to give her another shot because she definitely feels like a lot of my inner monologue. I think her writing is very astute and rich observational writing. Pure Colour did not work for me.

So, this was really interesting, tiny little thing. Not my favorite, but pretty interesting.

So, even in as far-reaching and strange as this book becomes, you do land yourself back to the origins of why you wanted to read this in the first place, which is Winterson's writing just being phenomenal and so captivating. Just vibes. This is solely vibes.

Interesting story. I just wish that this had been completed so that you could get a full developed idea of who this woman was.

And this was a great little consumption of pop culture through somebody who I think has a really biting and overall really aligned voice with how I see a lot of the world. So this was fun. I liked this, and I had a good time.

I really liked this. I thought that this was such a vision to see a writer advancing into doing something really wonderful and that's what I got most out of this book. I really loved it.

This is great. Easy read, I would say. If you ever have a chance to go and see it performed, go and see it.

I loved this. It took a little bit of time for me to get into this book. I thought that I was going to sink into it a little bit easier, but it did take me past, I don't know, him talking about the arms and the legs for me to really envelop and enjoy the experience.

This really didn't live up to the expectations for me. I think that this was very great thriller writing. Could have been about 200 pages less.

Grapes of Wrath is I think a great testament to that. He wrote that because he had interviewed people in Oklahoma that were moving to California at the time and he became so enraged about the conditions.

The father is trying his best to make sure that his child is safe, that his wife is safe, and in doing so, he just unearths the most evil parts of him. Really good. Not my favorite by any means, but really good.

I do think that this book loses a lot of its footing. I think it loses a lot of its thesis, and it's just more profiling cases that he found to be interesting while not really honing in on what it was trying to say.

Did I like this book? Not necessarily. Did I have a really funny time with this? Sure.

I'm reading in The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende and she does a fantastic job of dropping a little Easter egg for what's to come and then just bringing it full circle around and being so much of a captivating writer that you are able to care about the story enough to get to that point again.

Yeah, I mean this was fine Like if you find it, great, read it. If you don't find it, just know what I told you about it is pretty much what happens.

I don't think that I really cared too much about that portion of the book, but I do think that the front part of this was really great, outstanding. You're getting exactly what you're looking for when you seek out this book in those first couple of chapters.

I wasn't crazy about this book at all. I think I was promised an idea of this book, and it never really came to fruition.

This was good. This was definitely much more heady. This was a lot more heady than I think I anticipated it being before I got into it, but I did think that this was ultimately pretty good.

I didn't empathize with the character. I didn't like her interpretation of the world. This was really hard for me to get into.

Really wonderful. Feels like anybody can read this, should read this. Not an a enjoyable read, but feels like something that is expanding education and I'm always looking to do that.

This has been Written on the Body has been added into my favorite books of all time. This book blew me away. Blew me away.

But this really worked well for me because I understand that psyche in a way that you can criticize as much as you want. I'm not defending this main character at all. There's so many horrible things that this character does and says.