Catship reviewed Fight Night by Miriam Toews
Really good for a random library find, decided on during the beginning of a migraine
5 stars
Also wonderful everyday weirdness
Reviews and Comments
We're a plural system who loves queer & anarchist scifi.
But recently we just read a few randomly picked up mystery books in a row, in German, and we tend to review books in the language we read them in. That or similar may happen again, be warned.
No reading goals, just feelings.
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Catship reviewed A Night in Terror Tower - 25 by R. L. Stine
ALL LOCKED UP AND NO PLACE TO GO!
Sue and her brother, Eddie, are visiting …
Well
3 stars
I disliked most of the story, but it has a really nice comfy ending.
Catship reviewed Elena Knows by Frances Riddle
After Rita is found dead in a church she used to attend, the official investigation …
I like it
4 stars
I wasn't totally in the right mood for it but I liked a lot about it. It's very slow for a long while and then there's a moment when I realised it was going to get pretty heavy. I liked the way in which it got heavy.
Catship reviewed Marsmädchen by Tamara Bach
Hui, das mag ich mehr als erwartet
4 stars
Also, weil, es ist sehr gehypt worden als ich ein Teenie war aber ich hab es nie gelesen. Jetzt find ich es.... schmerzhaft teenie-ish aber mag es auch. Hab mich gefreut, dass es eben alles als Alltag beschrieben ist und keine großen moralischen Sequenzen drin sind. Frag mich ein bisschen, ob ich damals gecheckt hätte dass zwischen meiner besten Freundin und mir was laufen könnte, wenn ich damals das schon gelesen hätte. Nur das Ende... Queers bekommen kein glückliches Ende, oder. Vielleicht muss man in alter Tradition den letzten Teil wegreißen. Wobei, also, es ist nicht sooooo schlimm. Aber eben. Glücklich zusammen sind sie nicht.
Catship reviewed Of Women and Salt by Gabriela Garcia
In present-day Miami, Jeanette is battling addiction. Daughter of Carmen, a Cuban immigrant, she is …
This is really heavy
5 stars
I was actually looking for some light YA thing when I bought this instead. Cause I didn't find a light YA thing that I was interested in. And this sounded good. It is good. It is also so heavy that I can't summarise the plot to people who ask me what I'm reading without also crying about it.
Catship reviewed Take Me With You When You Go by David Levithan
Cliché in the good ways
4 stars
So.... this is the kind of cliché YA story that just by its ways of storytelling makes me almost-cry on most pages. But I really enjoyed how not-cliché the story was in many ways. Like.... teenagers who run away and meet a surprising amount of really kind people even though everything sucks. And the gay kid's gayness not making much difference to the abuse he experiences anyway. I liked that.
Catship reviewed 99 Erics by Julia Serano
I like many parts of this book
4 stars
just not the anarchism one, for example, I'm still grumpy about that. Anyway this is just really lovely and weird and queer and feminist and the protagonist is an ex-linguist.
Catship reviewed TOO F____D TO LIVE TOO PUNK TO DIE by Mori of LB Lee
Oooof it's good and really really hard to read
5 stars
I read this at breakfast and didn't want to cry next to a flatmate. I think it would have been even better with crying. It combines some ideas that classically make me very sad (being a ghost and not able to talk to people for example), even though everything turns out great actually.
Catship reviewed Trotzdem aufbrechen by Angelika Wilke
:)
4 stars
Ich habs richtig gern gelesen und es hat mir so viel Träumerei gemacht. Weil die Perspektive eben anders ist, als so viel was über solche Unternehmungen geschrieben wird. Wie schön es einfach ist, über die Tour einer alleine reisenden behinderten Frau über 50 zu lesen, die sich gar nicht so sicher ist, was da jetzt was wird und was nicht. Kein bisschen Mackerei da drin... also nur in Zitaten, naja, begegnen tut sie den Typen natürlich schon. Also... sehr ähnliche Gefühle wie zu Gears For Queers. Ich freu mich einfach, lesen zu können, wie Leute die keine SportDudes sind so was angehen.