April 2024 Reading Wrap-Up!

I read and absolutely adored a good Girl's Guide to murder a few months ago

but the strangeness of the world in Alien clay actually mirrors and thematically Loops back into the politics it is wonderfully circular and brilliantly clever alien Clay is one of the best sci-fi novels I've read in years and years and years

Anatomy had a lot of punch because it felt very much like a love letter to so much great Gothic historical fiction but also it was doing its own thing

I got through both of these and they're really excellent they're really fantastic

one book that I read and loved with all my heart is a Botanical Daughter by Noah Medlock this will undoubt Ed ly be one of my favorite novels of this year I am obsessed with this thing I think about it constantly

this is a really good thriller there are horror elements especially body horror but this is far more Thriller than horror so if you enjoy Mysteries and thrillers but you're not a big fan of horror I reckon this is a good fit for you

I got through both of these and they're really excellent they're really fantastic

I loved anatomy And I also loved immortality it was a great Sequel and a satisfying ending to the story

as I said in my review these are enormously hit and miss stories they swing as I said in my video like a pendulum back and forth between really excellent tales and really mid or even just awkward and disappointing stories

I didn't like the fact that this was pros and poetry combined I wanted it to be one or the other there was a dissonance there that I couldn't get over and I had a lot of people in the comments asking me what the big deal is what the problem is with this and for me as I said in the video there was a disconnect between me and the characters and the story

when I think about beautiful novels the first thing that pops into my head is The Picture of Dorian Gray one of the most beautiful things I've ever read or at least most beautiful pieces of pros

another brand new book that I reviewed was Eric Lor rocker's this skin was once mine a collection of four incredible horror stories

I struggled with this book and in my video I explained why basically I don't know who this book is for the people who've been suckered into the culture War around trans people and also the roles and rights of women are not going to read this book and trans people like myself who pay a lot of attention to the cultural Zeitgeist to the politics of our world to the politics around social issues and the existence of trans and queer people Etc we know everything that's in here more or less