I love this book so much 🤖❤️.
I mean, what's not love about a cosy road trip with a human, a retro robot, and a radioactive sausage dog?
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I love this book so much 🤖❤️.
I mean, what's not love about a cosy road trip with a human, a retro robot, and a radioactive sausage dog?
pickWhat an empathetic book! How tender. How bittersweet. How deeply poignant. For a book so absorbed with death, it's strangely life affirming, and isn't that such a wonderful paradox? It emanates such fierce humanity that it's a palpable thing, an innate goodness that you get to hold in your hands with all the messy complications of this equally terrifying and wonderful business we call life and death. I can't resist returning again and again 🫖.
And this is why I have 7 cats! 🩷
I love this journey more than anything, which is why I can't resist returning to this cosy world of ghosts and tea shops again and again 🫖.
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This story never fails to warm my heart.
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In case anyone needs a little reminder today 🌻💙🌼.
I'm of the mind that I'm family now, since this is my third time reading this book! 🫖
I never, in a million years, thought I would identify with a little sentient vacuum with an anxiety disorder!
But look and see, a little pinch of Rambo wisdom 💛🤖🩷.
pickIn a book populated with mostly robots, Klune explores what it means to be human. Those pesky contradictions that, as a whole, make us a fascinating, infuriating, and sometimes violent species unlike any other. It's clear that this novel was somewhat steamrolled in the editing stages. I wish it hadn't been made obligatory that Klune remove all mention of Vic's autism. (1/2)
🖤🩶🤍💜
More.
More.
MORE!
*points to massive bookshelves* I WANT these books.
*solemnly points to my checkout basket on Waterstone's/my library checkout pile* I also WANT these books.
Rereading Klune's books always feels like coming home 🦋.
Eeeeeeeeek!!!
It's FINALLY official!!!
#rwrb #caseymcquiston #historyhuh #sequel #movieadaption
pickA concept reminiscent of existential therapy; death, meaning, isolation, and freedom, with prose that dives between the dissonance of reality and unreality and that heady sense that the past is the future, Klune explores the philosophical/scientific debate of nature vs. nurture with an evocative twist, thus inbuing the story in subtext; memory, introspection, testimony, and reason while balancing the social benefits of knowledge vs. autonomy.
Giovanni‘s Room by James Baldwin!
I've been pining for this book to be adapted into a movie ever since I first read it. The knowledge of a secret screenplay squirrelled away somewhere in a London flat penned by Baldwin himself only made the notion more desirous.
Forever holding out hope!
pickA tale of human endurance, madness, fervent self-observation and redemption, with a Whitman-congruent dichotomy plucking at the prose, comes an MLM romance set against a post-apocalyptic backdrop, switching between present tense and hallucinatory insanity that the past is the future with a kind of staccato, frantic ease, blurring the edges between reality and unreality. Mind-bendingly cinematic, and without doubt, Klune's greatest work to date.
pickGay dystopian fiction. Frantic, almost delirious prose. Characters that are all insane. A man who only goes by the name of Cavalo. A mute cannibal. A loyal dog. A robot succumbing to insanity. The bees inside Cavalo's head invent voices for his canine companion and the aphonic cannibal. Ghosts haunt his mind. What's real? The scrape of a knife and a kiss. Despite every attempt he makes, Cavalo can not ignore his feelings for the cannibal for long.
Nope, nope, nope.
Real world = people.
Fictional world = fictional people.
The introvert in me can *spoiler alert* only handle the latter.
*snatches book back*
Reminds me of one of my favourite book couples, Gus and Casey 🖤🩶🤍💜.
#asexuality #lgbtqia #acerep #tjklune #pride
pickSilver truly upped the ante in this thrilling, evocative sequel to HappyHead. I consumed it in a mere three days. The stakes are higher than ever as a group of teenagers seek those coveted nonpareils: happiness, affirmation, resilience, though a series of increasingly dangerous, morality diminishing tasks, teaching obedience and epicaricacy to the most desperate to please. Blind faith in a twisted system leads into even murkier waters. Incredible.
In all seriousness, I can't be the only one who does this 🫣.
Did I pre-order Casey McQuiston's new book without reading the synopsis? Why, yes. Yes, I did.
The. Ultimate. Ick!
pickMy first foray into the genius that is Stephen King, and he had me gasping, grimacing, recoiling; a whole phantom locomotive of emotions. The palpable pity for Paul Sheldon was consuming. The descriptive writing was stomach-churning and oh-so good. Palahnuick's use of the word "rubbernecking" springs the mind; the inability to look away from a road traffic accident, though in this case, one can't look away from the page despite its grisliness.
pickDarkly satirical, macho, and dogmatic comes anarchy personified, Tyler Durden, raging against consumer culture and class stratification with napoleonic savagery. Mindless, respectable drones become mutinous guerillas amongst sardonic undertones and hypnotic prose. I had zero expectations when I chose this book, having not seen the film, and was promptly knocked off my feet. Mind blown. Excuse me while I collect my jaw off the floor. Incredible!
pickPerfect for fans of the Squid Games & Adam Silvera's More Happy Than Not universe comes the 'answer' to the unhappiness epidemic: Happyhead. A warped idealogy centred around the prevalent wellness culture, a clever simulation with dark & twisted undertones. A hypothetical universe of a wellness system becoming something unhealthy in the blind hope for life's most coveted nonpareil: ultimate happiness. Edge-of-your-seat enjoyable & oh-so thrilling.
pickMy infinity star read. This book is the equivalent of a comfy pair of pyjamas, something I slip back into whenever I'm ill or anxious or possibly both. What's not love about an asexual stoner hipster and an idiosyncratic curmudgeon living platonically ever after together? It has all the feels, laugh out loud moments, and harbours the only miscommunication trope that I've ever enjoyed. I've basically read (and reread) all of Klune's books now!
I love TJ Klune! 🖤🩶🤍💜
pickA nostalgic reread treasured for the much needed comfort it brings. Soto captures the deeply eloquent, vulnerable inner life of her characters perfectly, penning a novella built on the foundation of enduring affection & a no-frills storyline where my favourite couple take a vacation to NYC, face childhood ghosts, shady art dealers & eat a great deal of food. A novella that, for me, feels like that small contented sigh breathed right before sleep.
bailedI'm certainly in the vast minority of people who did not enjoy this book - I even opted to #hailthebail with little under a hundred pages to go as I found myself skimming whole paragraphs. I found the constant ping-pong of trump cards between the characters tiresome, all of whom I found obnoxious and unlikeable to the point of being exasperated by them. (1/?)
pickA spy novella without the usual espionage & histrionics, replacing melodrama with a chaste love story between a demisexual analyst & insoluble asexual secret agent who vanishes on a covert op, leaving an almost empty apartment & a library full of Arthurian-obsessed children in his wake. Short & wholesome, with characters that carve a forever place in your heart. With so little ace representation out there, this story will always be special to me.
pickThis American Life (my latest obsession) was my first introduction to Dan Savage, and I quickly purchased his book. Witty and intelligent, full of big feelings and hilarious surprises, comes Savage's debate and heartfelt ode to his family. I laughed out loud more than once and tucked away excerpts in my arsenal of retorts for the inevitable run-in with a disgruntled right-winger and/or religious troll ("powers of gay marriage activate!").
pickA follow-up that pulls out all the stops for one helluva wild ride! Hussey pens his second crime novel with a showman's flair, a natural storyteller spinning a macabre tale of murder & revenge. Jericho investigates a series of gruesome murders inflicted upon physics, puzzled by the killers inattentive MO. Edge-of-your-seat. Addictive. Deliciously dark. A complicated labyrinth of a plot. The addition of the aro-ace detective was much appreciated!
My current problem!
Jericho's Dead by William Hussey is AWESOME!
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