Specs
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(3.75/5)November 23, 2024
September 15, 2023
Content warnings: None I can think of
omk3's review gives a great summary, and overall I echo their feelings on the book both in terms of difficulty (huge stretch of vocabulary, lots of casual speech and internet slang mixed in with the formal language of business emails) as well as impact.
The stories are fun little nuggets, but none really had a good punch to them. I liked enough of where things were going that I'd like to read some of the author's other works, especially long form as maybe
June 14, 2023
4 short stories, all taking place in the time just after the height of the pandemic, but with the pandemic as the background rather than the main subject. Each of the main characters have their own quirks, extreme or more common, and find themselves in unusual situations through (at least partly) their own doing. While there's much to criticise about all four of them, they get their point of view across in such a way that it's almost easy to sympathize with them despite their (sometimes unexpla
November 9, 2023
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Giving a grading to this book is challenging since I loved 2 out of 4 stories (the 1st and 3rd), found the 2nd one very disturbing, and the 4th one as well to some extent. In particular, the 4th story involves the author herself, as a particularly despicable character, which… is strange to write about yourself. I am left wondering if that story is based on true events, which would be pretty bad to say the least.
At the end of the day, though, I loved the author’s writing style, which led me to