#oh i forgot about babel entirely. picked it up bc i was told it was like. decolonial magic and language but it sooooooooo wasnt. maybe im
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I'm so glad my friends are (mostly) not book lovers bc holy shit I hate she who became the sun so much and if I was surrounded by people who love it I would not be able to talk to them until they got over the hype. I only liked abt half of it and I would explain my feelings but I don't feel like doing that rn.
Tldr though: I didn't think it was feminist at all and going in thinking it was a feminist piece of literature made it a bad read for me. I liked how the author explored another gender class through the eunuchs though. Should've contested the other main character's misogyny & toxic masculinity (maybe that's not the right term here but idgaf this is just a tumblr post) though (can't remember their name bc i read it so long ago. The monk)
#same with iron widow and this is how you whatever the time war#so disappointed#they were hyped up so much but were riddled with issues#i liked all the other books i read last year though!!!#couldnt finish mexican gothic though bc i think it just wasnt the right vibe. i want to give it another shot though bc i usually love the#genre :3#it wasnt bad i just wasnt in the right mood at ALL#OH also i think the bladerunner movie is leagues better than do androids dream of electric sheep but the book was still a good read yk?#i think there were additional elements in the book that just weren't tied together well enough#and didnt pay off well enough#like the religion payoff felt bizarre relative to the rest of the contents of the book. didnt feel fleshed oht enough#but perhaps that was the point and it just didnt click with me#no hate to the ppl who liked these books btw#oh i forgot about babel entirely. picked it up bc i was told it was like. decolonial magic and language but it sooooooooo wasnt. maybe im#just stupid or expecting too much idfk
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