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This whole book is one big WTF moment.

Confessions by Kanae Minato

December 30, 2019 by narfna Leave a Comment

If you would like to read something absolutely wild, go ahead and pick up this book. I knew it was going to be dark going in, and maybe it’s just because I don’t read all that many books that could truly be described as “dark,” but this was DARK. But also, it somehow managed to avoid being bleak? I think it was because it was so audacious. I just kept thinking the whole time I was reading it, WHAT. SHE DID WHAT NOW. (She being […]

Filed Under: Suspense Tagged With: Confessions, Japanese literature, Kanae Minato, narfna, psychological thriller, read harder challenge 2019, Stephen Snyder, thriller, translated

narfna's CBR11 Review No:160 · Genres: Suspense · Tags: Confessions, Japanese literature, Kanae Minato, narfna, psychological thriller, read harder challenge 2019, Stephen Snyder, thriller, translated ·
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Well, this was definitely a book. I will not be rating it.

The 120 Days of Sodom, or The School of Libertinage by Marquise de Sade

December 30, 2019 by narfna Leave a Comment

So, I wrote this upon finishing this book: “Ummmm. Give me a while to pull some thoughts together.” That was mid-October. I don’t think I’ve managed to pull those thoughts together. I don’t think I ever will. I mean, I read some reviews going in to this book, but even the ones that were explicit about the contents didn’t prepare me. I picked this book up because of the Read Harder Challenge. One of the challenges was to read a book that was written in […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: classics, erotica, french literature, kink, libertines, marquise de sade, narfna, read harder challenge 2019, the 120 days of sodom

narfna's CBR11 Review No:143 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: classics, erotica, french literature, kink, libertines, marquise de sade, narfna, read harder challenge 2019, the 120 days of sodom ·
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“How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.”

Dracula by Bram Stoker

December 28, 2019 by narfna 2 Comments

I don’t have the time or energy to write as much or as deeply as I would like to about this strange, 100+ year old book, so I’m just going to settle with posting some brief thoughts below. Somehow I managed to make it out of years and years of schooling, with two English degrees, without reading this book. Which is right up my alley! All that discussion of monsters and things that are taboo swathed in metaphor. I love that shit. When I first […]

Filed Under: Horror Tagged With: audiobooks, bram stoker, classics, Dracula, epistolary, horror, narfna, read harder challenge 2019, Victorian

narfna's CBR11 Review No:137 · Genres: Horror · Tags: audiobooks, bram stoker, classics, Dracula, epistolary, horror, narfna, read harder challenge 2019, Victorian ·
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Sometimes a book seems like it was written just for you; then you actually read it, and then you are sad.

On a Sunbeam by Tillie Walden

December 27, 2019 by narfna Leave a Comment

Much to my surprise, I didn’t really like this all that much. I will probably list some reasons down below, but bottom line ultimately is that something about it just never gelled with me. To elaborate, I didn’t really like any of the characters, except Elliott. The world-building makes no sense. (Or, there is no world-building?) SPOILERS Oxygen, where is it? How are they dealing with all the background cosmic radiation? Why are all these random fucking buildings floating in space? When is this set? […]

Filed Under: Graphic Novel/Comic, Science Fiction Tagged With: Comics, LGBTQIA, narfna, on a sunbeam, read harder challenge 2019, sci-fi, Tillie Walden

narfna's CBR11 Review No:133 · Genres: Graphic Novel/Comic, Science Fiction · Tags: Comics, LGBTQIA, narfna, on a sunbeam, read harder challenge 2019, sci-fi, Tillie Walden ·
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“Your heart is beating, isn’t it? You’re not in chains, are you?”

Felicity by Mary Oliver

December 26, 2019 by narfna 2 Comments

This is one of those books I never would have picked up on my own, so thanks, Read Harder, for doing your job. I do not read much poetry at all, and that is because some that I have read in the past has been pretentious as hell or impenetrable, or both, but even when it hasn’t been, my favorite thing about reading is narrative, and most poetry doesn’t have that, so. I’d just rather spend my reading time on novels, and the very occasional […]

Filed Under: Poetry Tagged With: felicity, mary oliver, narfna, poems, poetry, read harder challenge 2019

narfna's CBR11 Review No:129 · Genres: Poetry · Tags: felicity, mary oliver, narfna, poems, poetry, read harder challenge 2019 ·
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