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Almond by Won-pyung Sohn

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3.0

i have a lot of thoughts i fear… loved how fast paced and easy to read this was cause i rlly needed something like this so bad recently.
thought it was so interesting to be reading a person learning to feel emotions.. i was so moved when yunjae finally said he felt something at the end fr
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

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4.0

sooo beautiful and interesting and unique. almost everything nowadays has been done before but this is really the first of its kind its incredible. loved the mystery of it i couldnt wait to find out what was going on and i was not disappointed.. loved it
Young Mungo by Douglas Stuart

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5.0

God.. I was so prepared to come in here mad as fuck I was already planning my goodreads angry rant but no... those last five words saved everything. COME, IT SAID. COME AWAY. :(
reading this became rlly difficult during /that/ part, like even when I saw the terrible shit coming it still made me sick to my stomach reading it... however the men dying and hamish being jailed for their deaths is so fucking excellent karma is real thank you douglas stuart
there was something so devastating about the line "he found he could not hug her back" the progression of mungos character felt so gradual that i didn't notice it properly until that moment, and when i did i had to put the book down because id completely forgotten how different he was at the beginning. he changed so much by the end of the book he was like a completely different person...
hope mo maw dies and i hope james and mungo live happily together in their caravan for the rest of their lives with no one bothering them. i am heartbroken. need a sequel where they're ok
The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake

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1.0

never speak on adam parrish again freak. you wont ever be anything more than a loser dramione shipper and you will never be famous.
Out by Natsuo Kirino

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3.0

likeee i actually have so many thoughts… i dislike the weird rape kink that happened? it felt weird and not handled well at all.. did not like the writing style much but it can be chalked up to translation tbh.. i enjoyed the plot tho it was giving girlboss it was giving yassification of murder!! and fuck kuniko fuck that goofy girl
The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern

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3.0

rlly good but too long... even when i wanted to read it i struggled to get through it bc it felt never ending idk how to explain... still rlly beautiful writing tho rlly lovely characters loved the cats
Greywaren by Maggie Stiefvater

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5.0

I want to preface this by saying I received this book in the mail at 2pm today and finished reading it by the end of the day.. i cannot describe how it made me feel im just sitting and thinking.. i cannot believe this is the last i will ever get of adam parrish and of pynch... So terribly heartbroken every time i think about that......
but anyways.. this was a really gorgeous book like. i had so many emotions it was crazy.. the part where adam and ronan were like molecules and they were merging together idek what was going on but it was gorgeous. adams whole monologue had me gagged.. like actual tears in my eyes i really felt for him.. his confession that he lies to everyone but ronan and how ronan was where he stored all his reality... I MISS KNOWING WHERE I WAS GOING :( i love adam so bad i will seriously never love a character like that ever again im afraid.. he changed something in me like deeply and fundamentally
"this adam killed those adams so this one could win, this one who came to harvard to go to class and write papers and buy waffles with the crying club and pretend like nothing bad ever happened to him and like he has all the answers."
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

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Did not finish book.
flop and boring couldnt even finish it im gonna be all over the sparknotes later
Time Is a Mother by Ocean Vuong

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5.0

ive been reading this over several months on and off not because i didnt want to read it but because after every single poem i always wanted to reread it multiple times and think about it more.. so many faves in this one.. nothing, dear t, snow theory are my top three i think…

“how can I say the hole in your brother's back is not a part of your brother but your brother aparted who is still somewhere running because I wrote it in the present tense the bullet held just behind his death an insect trapped in amber”
I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy

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5.0

finished this in 2 days after i got it as a secret santa gift from a friend. so in love with it i couldnt put it down. jennette mccurdy is so raw and real about everything to do with her life even the things that most people wouldnt share and im so grateful.. reading through her recovery was more intense than i anticipated and i found myself so genuinely proud of her at the end, seeing her progress felt oddly personal.. i have so much respect for her. fuck nickolodeon fuck everyone that works there fuck debra i feel for every child actor and the childhoods they dont get to experience