Last week I was learning to sit with the discomfort of uncertainty and lack of control and also reading "Let Us Descend," "Get a Life, Chloe Brown," "Sister, Maiden, Monster," and "Yura."
Category: last week’s books
Last week’s books: Who am I?.. and does it matter?
Asking the hard existential questions while reading "The Shadow Cabinet," "It's Not Always Depression," "Lucky Red," "Let Us Descend," "Yura," and "Sister, Maiden, Monster."
Last week’s books: Secrets
Secrets are at the center of much fiction and non-fiction writing. I write about the secrets of "Dune Messiah", "What My Mother and I Don't Talk About", "Babel", and Erin Hunter's "Eclipse".
Last week’s books: Isolation
I've been feeling more isolated lately, so I related to book characters that feel similarly. Featuring "Dune Messiah", "Babel, or the Necessity of Violence", "A Wrinkle in Time", and "What My Mother and I Don't Talk About"
Last week’s books: Timelines
I've been thinking how we are always in the middle of the stories of our lives, and I was sensitive to the (un)certainty of future in the books I read last week: "Ninth House", "Dune Messiah", and "We Spread".
Last week’s books: How we treat our bodies
Reflecting on how the books I read last week portrayed bodies and our relationship to them. Featuring "The Red", "All Her Little Secrets", "The Body Is Not an Apology", "Get a Life, Chloe Brown".
How I rate books
I explain how I choose ratings for books on goodreads.
Last week’s books: Art and Pain
Thinking how the books I read last week handled traumatic events and their aftermath. Featuring "Catch-22", "Only Child", "Self-portrait with Boy", and "The Great Alone".
Best books read in 2021
The books I enjoyed the most in 2021. Spoiler alert, many of them were queer-themed.
Last week’s books: Contribution
Last week I was thinking about valuable contributions we can make. Here's how that reflected on my reading of "Red Clocks", "Summer Sons", "Flowers for Algernon", and "But Some of Us Are Brave".