I‘ve read a lot of books on ace identity at this point and I think this is my favorite one. It‘s so affirming and talks about so many different topics that are relevant to the ace community. Definitely if you are also ace like me it should be on your reading list, but actually everyone should read it.

This book was intense and deals with some incredibly difficult themes, but I absolutely could not put it down. Brilliantly written and richly imagined. It‘s definitely not for everyone and it feels weird to say I loved it because of the subject matter, but it was an outstanding read.

If you are autistic or think you might be, this book is a must read. If you‘re neurotypical, it‘s a must read too, so you can understand what autism actually is rather than all of the stereotypes that are floating around.

I absolutely loved this book and it definitely lived up to the hype! It‘s hilarious and also surprisingly sweet.

This history should be essential reading for everyone, but especially those of us who are queer. 🌈🌈

I loved this book! I thought it was going to be a music book and a WWII book. It is sort of both of those things, but more than that it‘s a love story. ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

Every single woman should read this book. In fact, every single human should read this book. I am asexual, so I didn‘t think it was for me, but boy was I wrong! The overriding message of this book is that everybody‘s body and sexuality are different, but everyone is normal and everyone is beautiful. Oh, and screw the patriarchy! I can‘t recommend this book highly enough. It was so powerful and the information in here is so important.

This was a powerful, beautiful and heartbreaking story based on real-life gymnasts from the USSR. I also loved that the queer element of the story was the most beautiful and hopeful part of the whole thing and was not at all the focus of Anya‘s challenges and struggles.

This is a GREAT book to understand yourself better! I came to a lot of realizations through reading this book and doing the exercises. Some of them may seem silly, but I was surprised at how impactful they all were. Highly recommended!

This book was fantastic. I love books with a complicated, flawed protagonist who doesn‘t always make the best choices, but at the same time, you can completely understand why they made those choices.

I think I‘ve found my favorite genre of non-fiction: highly sarcastic, opinionated scholarly writing! I just loved this! Great arguments and also hilarious!

I think I‘ve found my favorite genre of non-fiction: highly sarcastic, opinionated scholarly writing! I just loved this! Great arguments and also hilarious!

The information of this book was great, but the overt Christianity felt like wrapping this common sense advice in the jargon of a cult to make it palatable to the the cult members. It was extremely weird to read in that regard.

Oh my heart!! ❤️❤️ This book made me laugh and it made me cry. It‘s absolutely adorable and heartwarming and deep and important. I loved every second of it!

Everyone should read this book whether or not they‘ve been in an abusive relationship.

Great information in here and something all women should read.

Another fantastic read by Mary Lawson. I‘m so happy I discovered her work over the summer and I can‘t believe I had never heard of her before!

Why in the world is this so popular? The writing is absolutely terrible and everything that happens is utterly unbelievable. Way way too many convenient coincidences. I made it about 50 pages in and I couldn‘t take it anymore.

I‘ve been completely obsessed with Heartstopper since I watched the Netflix series, so of course I loved this novella!

This book is a classic on Carol Dweck‘s seminal and hugely important research, but my goodness it is badly written! 😱😳🤦‍♀️

I really loved this book. It‘s very hard to describe. The writing style is incredibly unique. The story is both quiet and gentle but also hilarious at times. I was incredibly distracted by other things the whole time I was reading it, so the fact that I felt such an investment in the characters throughout really says something.

This book is absolutely gripping. It was also completely infuriating to read, not only for what happened during the AIDS epidemic, but how literally every single mistake is being repeated now with Covid (and monkeypox). Everyone should read this book, if you didn‘t read it back when it came out in 1988.

I realize I‘m late to the game, but I became totally obsessed with this show on Netflix last week and read all four books in the last two days. They are unbelievably sweet, endearing, wholesome and so full of love. I can‘t say enough good things!

I mostly read “serious literary fiction“ but I am totally a sucker for Helen Hoang‘s books and characters. I absolutely loved this book. And as a professional musician I have to say that she did a great job with the musical aspects of this book. Usually books with professional classical musicians as characters make me cringe because they are just hilariously inaccurate, but she did a great job here.

An amazing story! The writing is a little bit clunky and amateurish in places, but the story itself is incredible.

I borrowed this from a friend so I could understand better her frustrations and challenges with cleaning. I thought it was an outstanding book with really good ideas for how to reframe cleaning as care tasks and making your home work for you. Now I need to go buy my own copy!

A fascinating, thought-provoking, and entertaining read!

This book was OUTSTANDING. One of the best books I‘ve read in a long time. Reminds me of Ann Patchett…I had never heard of this author before, but someone on here posted a review of one of her books, so thank you to whoever that was for introducing me to Mary Lawson!

An interesting read, although I didn‘t realize it was a memoir. It‘s also definitely not for the faint of heart. I am not squeamish in the slightest having grown up in a medical family, but the graphic descriptions of murder victims and mass disaster scenes was a little much at points…

I‘ve been enjoying reading books that come highly recommended but about which I know nothing. This book was not at all what I expected it to be, but it was completely delightful, touching, witty, and wonderful.

I was really excited to read this book about writing by a neurologist, but it‘s a disorganized mess. It reads like an initial draft that nobody edited.

I love everything she writes. This is a remarkable meditation on language, reading, writing, art, identity, and so much more.

Why is everything Ann Patchett writes literally the best thing I‘ve ever read? Like all of her other books, I absolutely loved this one!

This book was amazing! I learned so much about Taiwan and its tumultuous history that I knew nothing about before. It was interesting reading the end, which takes place during the SARS epidemic in the early 2000s, and comparing it to our current pandemic…

Too much botany, not enough brains for me. Oh well!

I liked this better than The Miniaturist (only because that book has so many problems with it), but I still don‘t think Jessie Burton is a very good writer. The pivotal moments in this book are much too contrived and everything is tied up way to neatly at the end. I don‘t understand why her books are so popular. They seem very amateurish to me.

I‘m not really a short story person, but I loved this collection of short stories by one of my favorite authors.

The extremely informal, conversational tone of this book took a little getting used to, but it was a fantastic read. I learned so much about the immune system. His analogies made really complicated topics easy to understand. And as others have mentioned, the illustrations are beautiful. Highly recommended!

My great aunt gave me this book years ago but I only just read it. The title and the cover and the font make it look like it‘s going to be some light airy read, so I didn‘t expect themes of suicide, murder, mental illness, etc. I‘m glad I finally read it!

Despite its subject matter, I found this book ultimately hopeful. Definitely a lot to think about in here.

Okay, stop what you‘re doing and go out right now and buy this book. I have read a lot of really incredible World War II stories, but this one takes the cake. A suspenseful, gripping, heartbreaking story full of love and heart and bravery that is all the more amazing because it‘s true! Incredible!!!!

It goes without saying that this book should be required reading for every American. I really liked how each chapter took a different topic and traced it through history to the present day. If this book isn‘t on your shelf yet, make a point to remedy that.

This is one of the funniest books I‘ve read in a long time. I read NW several years ago and I liked it but I wasn‘t thrilled. This one‘s been on my shelf for years. I‘m so glad I finally read it. I absolutely loved it!

The topics covered in this book are right up my alley, but I couldn‘t believe the racist terminology in referring to Indigenous peoples and languages (savages, primitive, etc.). It read like something written in the 1980s (or earlier), not 2010.

Her first book remains one of the best books I‘ve ever read, and this one joins that distinction. Outstanding in every possible way. As someone with a background in neuroscience, I loved the neuroscience stuff in here. A fun note: the protagonist‘s research is so similar to the research being done in Karl Deisseroth‘s lab at Stanford that I figured she must have talked to someone in the lab. Turns out I was right! :)

My 100th book of 2021! I wanted to try to read 100 books this year and I got there a whole week early! :) I enjoyed this gentle tale of love and change. Seems fitting somehow for everything the world is going through right now. Merry Christmas, everyone! 🎄 May you have lots of time to sit and read today. ✨

I feel bad giving a so-so rating since I know the author (we used to teach at the same university). But I found the tone annoying (making a big deal out of things that are not big deals, and minimizing things that are a big deal by writing about disasters of which he has no personal experience). All of the chapters were also apparently previously published as individual articles and so it doesn‘t hang together as a book.

This is an extremely powerful graphic novel about the Korean women who were forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese during World War II.

It was interesting and surreal to read this now while we enter probably the most dangerous chapter of the pandemic so far. These comics are from April through October 2020, which in many ways feel like the good old days of the pandemic… :(

I‘m not quite sure what to make of this book. On one hand, the writing is excellent. On the other hand, all of the separate threads didn‘t quite add up for me in the end in the way I was expecting/hoping.