I think these books broke my brain... a WeirdLit Reading Vlog 📚

And yes, this is weird. It has very strange plot, but there wasn't enough for me personally in either the themes or the characters to really make me care.

It felt like something was going to come to kind of flip things around and that definitely happened in the final part which just completely recontextualized everything that came before it in a really wonderful way. I found it really fascinating and really kind of exciting and interesting the way that shifted my understanding of everything that came before it.

This book is so unique and so absurd and silly and ridiculous and a labor of love and also other kinds of labor. I just thought this was so clever and fun and interesting, and as much as it broke my brain a little bit to read, I really, really enjoyed it.

What I liked about this was the experimental form, the switching up of the form from chapter to chapter, the sort of non-traditional narration style, the barest thread of a plot tying together essays and many thought experiments on interesting topics, mostly focused on relationships, connection, love, belonging, attachment, etc. What didn't work for me was the inclusion of a sort of post-apocalyptic element, which was a little too vague to really add anything for me personally.

It's really interesting, very open for interpretation. This was very unique, very interesting.

Like, I think about You Exist Too Much, and I really didn't like that main character was represented the way they were because it really leaned on so many negative stereotypes about bisexual people. I also just didn't enjoy that book in general, but that aspect of it, yes, on the one hand, I do think it's perpetuating negative stereotypes about bisexual people that are rampant, and I don't enjoy that.