Massive Book Unhaul 📖🌿💀 Spring Cleaning My Bookshelves

This book just represented me as a reader for such a long time. It always felt like such a feat to have read this.

So, I've got American Gods, Anzi Boys, which I also really enjoyed reading after American Gods.

But I did love Babel by Oruraf Quang and I feel like her writing style just gels really well with me and especially the cultural aspects that she has in her books are just really impactful.

And that unfortunately means that I don't really want to reread any of these books again, but I still have my memories of them. I still have like the wonder and the astonishment and you know all the positive stuff that I felt when reading them.

And another book that I have tried to read and I've just failed to really get into is God Killer.

Not just because of the Neil Gaiman situation, but because I didn't really enjoy it all that much when I read it.

The book was so fast-paced that it felt rushed. It felt really underdeveloped, and the ending unanimously sucked.

I also pulled this copy of I'm Thinking of Ending Things out of my wrap-up pile because I didn't really enjoy it that much, and it did show up in the copy that I didn't order it in.

And the title story is the best story in it. , but yeah, it just didn't live up to my expectations of it.

And I don't want to say it was like completely unenjoyable because it was a worthwhile read. but this is kind of fresh in my brain cuz we were talking about it in Dublin Horror Club and I was saying that like it is it is a rough read.

I have tried to read this book on two or three different occasions and it's just it's not for me.

And despite the fact that I am someone who enjoys unlikable characters, they were just unlikable in the most unenjoyable way.

And that unfortunately means that I don't really want to reread any of these books again, but I still have my memories of them. I still have like the wonder and the astonishment and you know all the positive stuff that I felt when reading them.

It was kind of like a sweet story but also kind of like a little bit pervy and a little bit funny and stuff like that which is everything I enjoy in Japanese literature.

I read this because I loved Tenderest the Flesh and this is not in line with Tenders the Flesh at all.

I read The Familiar by her last year. I really didn't enjoy it.

And I'm also going to let go of the Nakano thrift shop because I didn't actually really enjoy this all that much.

I really enjoyed Salt Grows Heavy.

It was incredibly dark and weird and messed up and that's kind of everything I love in a horror novel. And then obviously it's got the southern gothic background which I also really enjoy.

And I read this and I kind of read it as a dark comedy because it is incredibly misogynistic. And I felt like, well, if I read it as if it's kind of like a satire, even though it kind of is, I'm like, it made it kind of easier to get through.

This was a really beautiful, impactful, worthwhile read, especially if you're someone who is going through grief or like really struggling to make sense of your grief. This really does an incredible service of depicting grief and the alienation and the anger and confusion and just every other horrid emotion that goes along with it.