December 27, 2023
I wish I could end essays the way she does.
December 16, 2023
I had high hopes for this at the beginning, but then it became too obvious.
November 26, 2023
I really enjoyed this.
November 25, 2023
I really could not get into this.
October 31, 2023
This took me a bit to get into, but I loved it.
October 20, 2023
I was glad I reread this.
October 9, 2023
This was a little much for me.
October 5, 2023
I hated this.
September 22, 2023
I’m glad I finally had time to dive into this.
September 17, 2023
This was so weird, I loved it.
September 14, 2023
This was exactly what I was expecting.
September 9, 2023
I absolutely loved learning while reading this.
August 31, 2023
I think I actually liked the show more.
August 26, 2023
This didn’t fuck me up the way it did the first time I read it and I think that is growth.
July 26, 2023
This made me sad and happy at the same time.
July 25, 2023
This was dark.
August 22, 2023
I didn’t love the way this was written, but it had some interesting points about happiness.
August 20, 2023
I liked this, but some of the lines really irked me.
August 19, 2023
This kept me hooked.
August 15, 2023
This had too much going on.
August 8, 2023
I wanted to like this more than I did.
July 29, 2023
This wasn’t as good as I’d expected.
July 22, 2023
Really, really beautiful.
July 18, 2023
I loved these stories.
July 7, 2023
I really enjoyed this.
July 4, 2023
Exactly what I expected.
July 4, 2023
I’m annoyed that I knew immediately who the murderer was.
June 28th, 2023
This was the most predictable book I have ever read.
June 17, 2023
A big kid’s Westing Game.
June 8, 2023
This was predictable, but in a cute way.
May 27, 2023
This was so weird; I loved it.
May 21, 2023
This made me anxious.
May 20, 2023
This was predictable, but not bad.
May 13, 2023
This scared me.
May 7, 2023
This made me very sad.
April 25, 2023
This was an easy, light read that I enjoyed even if the characters were annoying.
April 22, 2023
I loved this.
April 16, 2023
Kind of predictable, but fine.
April 9, 2023
I didn’t want this to end.
April 4, 2023
Absolutely gorgeous.
March 29, 2023
It was kind of giving that “Five People You Meet in Heaven” vibe, but I did like it.
March 28, 2023
Exactly what I expected.
March 18, 2023
I liked this a lot and it had a lot of twists, both ones I saw coming and ones I did not.
March 15, 2023
Beautiful.
March 14, 2023
As always, I love him.
March 4, 2023
I still loved this, but I didn’t feel like it was my life anymore which was a relief.
February 25, 2023
This was fine.
February 14, 2023
I liked this, but not as much as I expected to.
February 6, 2023
This was exactly what I expected it to be.
February 6, 2023
This was maybe the worst book I have ever read.
January 31, 2023
These were written in a very lovely way.
January 29, 2023
I liked this, even if parts felt dumb.
January 16, 2023
This was a good collection.
January 14, 2023
This was pretty good.
January 7, 2023
I love this style of storytelling.
January 3, 2023
This was lovely, though I hated the term “sweetness.”
December 31, 2022
I loved this.
December 29, 2022
I wanted this to be better than it was.
December 27, 2022
This was fine.
December 24, 2022
I can’t believe I finished this book.
December 21, 2022
I loved this.
December 16, 2022
I didn’t like this as much as I liked the first one.
December 7, 2022
This was the funniest book I have ever read.
December 2, 2022
I knew who did it, but it had enough turns that I really enjoyed it.
November 27, 2022
I was surprised by how I knew how did it, but I was intrigued either way.
November 19, 2022
These stories made me sad in a beautiful way.
October 23, 2022
I am the idiot.
October 16, 2022
This made me feel both sad and determined.
October 10, 2022
I saw myself so much in this that it made me feel like magic existed.
September 18, 2022
I think I liked this less the second time around, but still enjoyed the personification of New York.
September 8, 2022
This still made me sad.
September 8, 2022
I was blown away by this project — it’s so emotional, but also journalistically relevant.
August 30, 2022
lol.
August 26, 2022
This is maybe the worst book I ever read.
August 1, 2022
I was ready to cry again.
July 26, 2022
This was even better the second time I read it.
July 25, 2022
This was exactly what I was expecting and I enjoyed it for that.
July 6, 2022
I enjoyed this, but not as much as his other books — still, it kept me excited.
June 17, 2022
i loved how this was written and following the characters along their life journey, but even more so loved the throw away details about minor characters who resurfaced.
June 12, 2022
I needed to read something like this.
May 29, 2022
I will think about sentences from this book for a long time.
May 6, 2022
I liked this.
April 30, 2022
This was a little all over the place for me.
April 16, 2022
I liked this, though not as much as I originally did. I loved the short sentences, the chapters that ran through life.
April 16, 2022
This book felt so boring to me.
March 30, 2022
I love this, as always.
March 30, 2022
I’m annoyed that I knew exactly how it was going to end.
March 26, 2022
I loved this.
March 21, 2022
This was beautiful.
March 21, 2022
This was predictable and poorly written.
March 12, 2022
I loved this.
March 6, 2022
I had a hard time getting into this book, but the twist was good.
March 3, 2022
As always, I am delighted by his writing.
February 26, 2022
This took me a little to get into, but once I did, I loved everything about it.
February 25, 2022
This had some good twists and I was intrigued.
February 20, 2022
I felt like her.
February 10, 2022
This made me feel sad in a way I didn’t expect.
February 6, 2022
I liked how short the chapters were and the story kept me engaged.
January 29, 2022
I adored these stories and how they were interconnected.
January 25, 2022
I thought this was pretty well written and interesting that two different authors wrote it together.
January 22, 2022
This was an easy, interesting read.
January 17, 2022
This book was awful and lowkey racist.
January 15, 2022
I found this boring.
January 14, 2022
I understood this and think so many women would.
January 8, 2022
I loved this.
December 27, 2021
I thought this was poorly written.
December 27, 2021
This was boring and predictable.
December 14, 2021
I absolutely loved this.
December 11, 2021
I really enjoyed this.
December 10, 2021
I liked this, it’s exactly what I needed to read right now.
December 5, 2021
I enjoyed this more than I thought I would.
November 26, 2021
I genuinely liked this.
November 26, 2021
I loved this.
November 17, 2021
This was boring.
November 13, 2021
I loved this.
October 14, 2021
I thought this was beautiful.
October 5, 2021
This was predictable.
October 4, 2021
I did not understand this book very much, but I loved the writing.
September 21, 2021
I loved this.
September 9, 2021
This was fine.
September 4, 2021
This was bad.
August 15, 2021
I will always love this book.
August 15, 2021
I hated this.
August 9, 2021
This was an okay book — I finished in a day and it kept me entertained enough.
August 5, 2021
This was fine.
July 31, 2021
This was interesting.
July 25, 2021
I cried in public multiple times reading this.
July 23, 2021
I genuinely enjoyed this book, but found it concerning that some of her eating habits felt normal to me.
July 21, 2021
I cannot explain how much I hated this book.
July 13, 2021
I wanted this to be better.
July 8, 2021
This was a cheesy mystery which I needed, although some of the scenes made me sick.
June 30, 2021
I liked this even though it felt too soon with the pandemic — it was eerie how different it would have felt to read in 2019.
June 19, 2021
I liked this, but not as much as I thought I would.
June 13, 2021
This was kinda cheesy.
June 2, 2021
I loved these weird stories.
May 20, 2021
I can’t believe I liked this book when I was a kid.
May 18, 2021
I enjoyed this and the thoughts it envoked.
May 14, 2021
I genuinely loved this book.
May 10, 2021
This was fine.
May 6, 2021
Predictable, but fine.
May 5, 2021
I loved this book.
May 1, 2021
I enjoyed this more than I thought I would.
April 25, 2021
I enjoyed this because it made me think a lot.
April 21, 2021
This was literally so unrealistic.
April 20, 2021
I never would have bought this book if it wasn’t sent to me and it was predictable, but it did have points about body image for me to consider.
April 18, 2021
This was pretty cheesy, but I enjoyed it.
April 14, 2021
I loved this.
March 28, 2021
I wanted to like this more, but it felt like there was no real exciting climax.
March 24, 2021
This book gutted me.
March 20, 2021
I wanted to read something familar.
March 19, 2021
I wanted to like this very much and did not.
March 12, 2021
I wanted to like this, but it was very predictable and none of the sentences struck me.
March 9, 2021
I wanted to like this more than I did.
March 7, 2021
This was extremely well-written and I loved it.
March 5, 2021
I loved this book, even when it made me uncomfortable.
February 14, 2021
This book started out ok, but really lost me at the end.
February 12, 2021
I thought I would like this more than I did, but I still enjoyed the writing.
February 9, 2021
This was predictable.
February 7, 2021
I loved this.
February 3, 2021
This made me sad.
January 30, 2021
I loved this collection and know that some of these stories will stay with me for a very long time.
January 23, 2021
This made me miss New York terribly.
January 20, 2021
I genuinely enjoyed this because I have felt a lot of the things she felt and if I hadn’t already started exploring why, this would have made me.
January 15, 2021
I did not understand or like this book at all.
January 9, 2021
I enjoyed this even if it did make me feel completely unmotivated which I do not think was the purpose.
January 5, 2021
This book was so cheesy, I rolled my eyes so many times while reading it.
January 2, 2021
I loved every single story in this book and loved how it was written, how everything was told and the way the characters existed with their faults.
December 31, 2020
This book was less eye-opening than I wanted it to be.
December 29, 2020
It took me a little bit to get into this book, but once I did, I really enjoyed it.
December 22, 2020
I thought this book would be better than it was and I wanted so badly to love it.
December 18, 2020
I learned and felt a lot.
December 17, 2020
This book was perfectly written.
December 12, 2020
I loved this book — loved how it was written, loved the characters, loved the story.
December 7, 2020
This book was better written than I remembered.
December 5, 2020
I went between enjoying this book and disliking it, so because of that, I feel like I didn’t fully grasp everything.
November 30, 2020
This book made me realize all the ways I need to be better.
November 19, 2020
I will always love this book and her writing.
November 15, 2020
I was looking for something to help me find a path on my way to stop drinking, but I think I found something better with this.
November 14, 2020
This made me think in the way I knew it would. I want to do the work, want to be better, want our country to rid ourselves of this caste system, but it feels so despairing to know how many people don’t feel the same.
November 13, 2020
I didn’t like this book as much as I liked his other one, but it was still enjoyable.
November 8, 2020
Sweet and predictable in a way I very much craved.
November 5, 2020
I needed something I knew the ned to in order to get through election week.
October 25, 2020
I reread this because I needed something quick and easy and bad.
October 19, 2020
I felt like this book was way too long and way too boring for me to have kept going, but I did.
October 13, 2020
I really liked how this book was put together structurally even if I wasn’t sold on the storyline.
October 9, 2020
Simple, quick, predictable, enjoyable.
October 7, 2020
Entertaining, even if I saw both twists coming.
October 7, 2020
This book was incredible.
October 6, 2020
I loved how clever and thoughtful and funny this concept was and how it was written in a way that seemed so intriguing, even though everything was so ordinary.
September 28, 2020
I hated this.
September 26, 2020
I wanted to like this book more than I did.
September 19, 2020
I wanted to like this book more, but it just felt too rushed and predictable.
September 21, 2020
This is not a book I ever would have picked for myself and, while I did feel like it wrapped things up too quickly, I was interested.
September 14, 2020
I don’t know why I didn’t want them to end up together in the end because I have been in similar situations on much, much smaller scales, but… I didn’t. I wanted her to realize she was better than him, just like I know I should have realized the same within myself.
September 9, 2020
This is the way I want to be able to tell stories.
September 6, 2020
I don’t think I would have made it through this if I hadn’t so very much loved the television adaptation.
September 6, 2020
This was fine — predictable with inconsistencies, but an easy read.
September 5, 2020
This was the best book I’ve read in a long, long time. It was so well-written and clever and funny that I didn’t want it to end.
August 9, 2020
This book was exactly what I needed — a quick, kinda-bad crime novel to keep me interested.
August 2, 2020
I love everything Sam writes.
July 31, 2020
I found this book interesting, but also jarring.
July 28, 2020
I loved this book. I loved the way it was written and how it flowed and the entire storyline.
July 13, 2020
I loved this book, but I hated how much of myself I saw in one of the characters. I’ve spent my adulthood telling myself it’s a good thing and now I can’t tell if I want the life she ends up with because it’s so ambigous.
July 11, 2020
Funny and consistent and comfortable which is exactly what I need.
July 6, 2020
This book was so perfectly worded, it made me want to cry multiple times.
July 3, 2020
I liked this book — I liked her sense of describing the characters, of recognizing where they were at in their lives.
July 1, 2020
I remember this book being better than it was.
June 30, 2020
Our prison systems are so fucked up and so is our justice system — this made me so angry and upset at the irrationality put in place for these people to die.
June 25, 2020
I forgot how well-structured this book really was. It’s truly better than all the copy cats.
June 14, 2020
Reading this, I was embarrassed that I had been blind to so many things that people are experiencing constantly.
June 11, 2020
I learned a lot throughout these essays — some that made me laugh, others that made me feel physically ill — and enjoyed them even when I thought I would not.
June 7, 2020
This book was kind of dumb, but interesting enough for a summer read.
June 7, 2020
I loved this book — loved how the story melded together with characters you both hated, loved and understood, even when you didn’t want to.
June 4, 2020
I miss New York and wanted to read about how elegant it all was in a voice that lends so much detail to description.
May 31, 2020
I’ve been re-reading books about New York because I miss the cit even though I am in it. This book reminds me of who I will be.
May 28, 2020
I love Lena’s writing — it’s impossible for me to pretend like I don’t think she is talented or witty or funny because she is.
May 23, 2020
This book hurt even more the second time reading it because I can see myself so clearly in how she lets herself be treated, in how she wants to be treated, in how she wants to be loved.
May 22, 2020
I read this, knowing there was drama around the author.
May 20, 2020
I needed a quick, light read and this delivered, although I was shocked after 83 pages to learn it was happening in 2001, not the 80s.
May 17, 2020
I somehow hated this more than I hated her last one, which I did not think was possible.
May 15, 2020
I feel comforted by reading stories that I know are well-written.
May 12, 2020
This always makes me feel comfortable and at home — this book is the reason I love time in circles, the roundness of life.
May 10, 2020
This book was beautifully written and I loved that all the characters were intertwined without knowing it, but it was heartbreaking and lovely.
May 5, 2020
This book was essentially what I expected it to be, but I found myself off put by Jesus being hot.
May 3, 2020
I genuinely enjoyed this book, far more than I thought I would. It was funny and slightly dark and kept me wildly entertained.
May 2, 2020
This book was beautifully written and made me so angry — which was the point — but I will think about it for a long, long time.
April 26, 2020
I actually really enjoyed this — loved the different points of view and, while it was a little annoying that there were clearly so many secrets, I ddi not guess the ending until it happened.
April 12, 2020
I genuinely thought this was awful.
March 21, 2020
This is the kind of writer I want to be.
March 19, 2020
I’ve read this book countless times and it still makes me cry.
March 11, 2020
I didn’t like this book because it felt like a lot of name-dropping, but I did love the drama.
March 8, 2020
I chose this book because I once also thought I was in love with two people, but they were the same person intertwined and this is not that.
February 25, 2020
I loved everything about this book — the characters were people I thought about constantly and all I wanted to do was lay in bed reading about them and their different points of view.
February 23, 2020
I really wanted to like this book because I loved her other one, but it just made me feel so dumb and like I didn’t understand what was happening in any of the stories.
February 17, 2020
I don’t think this book was well-written, but it wasn’t as predictable as I initially thought it would be.
February 2, 2020
This was an easy, fun read for a lazy Sunday — I enjoyed it without having to think about it.
February 2, 2020
The first time I read this book, it made me want to get sober. This time around, it doesn’t make me want to stop drinking fully, but it does make me want to make better choices.
January 29, 2020
Every chapter of this book made me want to cry.
January 26, 2020
This was a very easy book to read, but had a lot of deeper feelings within in that made me think about the way I treat people, even if I’m trying to just do the right thing.
January 22, 2020
I genuinely loved this book — maybe because it felt like conversations I’ve had with myself about things I am too timid to admit to people about sex, about love, about not feeling what I’m supposed to.
January 18, 2020
Low-key, I hated this book. I knew exactly what was going to happen the entire time and I didn’t find it well-written at all.
January 7, 2020
I don’t know why I expected to hate this book, but I actually loved it. I loved how I could understand the space / time continuum and still be fully enthralled by the characters.
January 3, 2020
I felt like this book was terribly written and it was so obvious what was going to happen — even the biggest plot twist felt too low-key because it was so expected.
December 29, 2019
I started reading this because my coworkers were, but ended up finishing in a day because I needed a quick, interesting, if slightly predictable read.
December 22, 2019
Everything felt too beautifully written — I wanted to be the one who wrote those sentences; I wanted to be the one who felt all those things.
December 28, 2019
The beginning was hard for me to get through, but I loved the callback, loved the way different events resurfaced from everyone’s points of view.