I read this book with my eyeballs but like the reviewer at bookwyrm.social/user/mollymay5000/review/7520325 I also found it kind of rambly and unfocused.
I wrote a more detailed review on my blog: ian.mccowan.space/2025/07/09/whos_afraid_of_gender/
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valrus reviewed Who's Afraid of Gender? by Judith Butler
From a global icon, a bold, essential account of how a fear of gender is …
Yeah it's pretty rambly
3 stars
valrus reviewed One of Our Kind by Nicola Yoon
The Stepford Wives meets Get Out in #1 New York Times bestselling author Nicola Yoon’s …
This review is a link to my website
4 stars
I wrote this review on my blog! Read it there! ian.mccowan.space/2025/07/04/one_of_our_kind/
valrus rated One of Our Kind: 4 stars
One of Our Kind by Nicola Yoon
The Stepford Wives meets Get Out in #1 New York Times bestselling author Nicola Yoon’s first adult novel, a terrifying …
valrus finished reading One of Our Kind by Nicola Yoon
The Stepford Wives meets Get Out in #1 New York Times bestselling author Nicola Yoon’s …
Jesus Christ.
valrus started reading Smoking the Bible by Chris Abani
valrus started reading One of Our Kind by Nicola Yoon
One of Our Kind by Nicola Yoon
The Stepford Wives meets Get Out in #1 New York Times bestselling author Nicola Yoon’s first adult novel, a terrifying …
valrus finished reading Who's Afraid of Gender? by Judith Butler
Who's Afraid of Gender? by Judith Butler
From a global icon, a bold, essential account of how a fear of gender is fueling reactionary politics around the …
valrus reviewed To Die For by David Baldacci
Very competent
2 stars
Pretty well put together and kept me reading, but the characters were two-dimensional and the prose was serviceable at best. I read this with my book club because it was set in Seattle; it didn't have me super eager to read any more Baldacci.
Pretty well put together and kept me reading, but the characters were two-dimensional and the prose was serviceable at best. I read this with my book club because it was set in Seattle; it didn't have me super eager to read any more Baldacci.
valrus finished reading Starter Villain by John Scalzi
Starter Villain by John Scalzi
Inheriting your mysterious uncle's supervillain business is more complicated than you might imagine.
Sure, there are the things you'd …
valrus rated A Letter from the Lonesome Shore: 3 stars
valrus finished reading A Letter from the Lonesome Shore by Sylvie Cathrall
valrus reviewed Stony the Road by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
The abolition of slavery in the aftermath of the Civil War is a familiar story, …
Distressing
4 stars
Much of this book was like talking to Measurehead in Disco Elysium. Just pages and pages and pages of the absolute most inane racist shit. Really brings home how much Abraham Lincoln hella did not end racism in America with a stroke of the pen. I read this for my book club because someone wanted an answer to the question of "How did we get from Reconstruction to where we are today?" This book doesn't explain it all—what book could?—but it accounts for a hell of a lot of it.
Much of this book was like talking to Measurehead in Disco Elysium. Just pages and pages and pages of the absolute most inane racist shit. Really brings home how much Abraham Lincoln hella did not end racism in America with a stroke of the pen. I read this for my book club because someone wanted an answer to the question of "How did we get from Reconstruction to where we are today?" This book doesn't explain it all—what book could?—but it accounts for a hell of a lot of it.
valrus started reading Who's Afraid of Gender? by Judith Butler
Who's Afraid of Gender? by Judith Butler
From a global icon, a bold, essential account of how a fear of gender is fueling reactionary politics around the …
valrus finished reading Stony the Road by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Stony the Road by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
The abolition of slavery in the aftermath of the Civil War is a familiar story, as is the civil rights …