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Mixed results, but pretty sure it adds up to an epic ad campaign you couldn't possibly plan or pay for. 💁🏼‍♂️

My copy arrived! Naturally, it brought a few friends with it (and there are three more still on the way, and I don‘t even remember what they are). Komi is for the kiddo, and the rest…well, there‘s kind of a theme, isn‘t there? #bookmail is the best mail.
@GingerAntics I‘m ready!

#12BooksOf2025 November An eye opening read ,will be part of the permanent collection. Sometimes I wonder Laura Bates could go through so much to research this book.

There are over 50 "stories" in this 174-page book, so no surprise that they are very short, some being only one line. Naturally, then, most of the ideas are conceptual: you get the gist and fill in the blanks yourself. Matsuda gets this to work more often than not, and her surreal feminist commentaries on Japanese (and global) culture mostly hit home, but I think I'd have preferred some editing to either remove or expand the ones that don't. 3.5⭐

#Storygraph

Started this audiobook. First time reading Virginia Woolf.

I've been setting up my categories over on LT, using snapshots from graphic novels. This one is going to be most pleasing for the art / exhibition catalogue category.

#12BooksOf2025
September: another tie between a nonfiction title---Emotional Labor by Rose Hackman---and a fiction title---The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai.

@TheEllieMo

This was a really mixed bag for me. Entertaining and propulsive, it features a woman found dead in a park early in the morning, shocking because all men are subject to 7p-7a curfew and wear electronic tags. But a major character is so unsympathetic just for a sudden switchover that it reads as caricature, and the result of the murder felt like a bait and switch. Cool premise, though.

For August, I‘ve selected this collection of dark, twisted, angry fairy tale retelling short stories.

Wonderfully creepy and full of rage, these were everything I wanted out of them.

#12BooksOf2025 @TheEllieMo