UnfinishedDrafts
4130 points
October 2026
4.10 average · 212 reviews
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This books started off slow with unlikeable characters, but was so engrossing that I found myself doing calculations on their cost of living even when I wasn't reading. The character arcs/growth are done well, with genuine and believable change. By the end of the book I loved them dearly.
I had read about the great depression, but never from the perspective of those in the Dust Bowl. I learned a lot and was inspired by hope. Just when I was starting to think I was done with Kristin Hannah, this one won be back over.
I love Maggie Smith's poetry. It is lyrical and symbolic without being dense, and beautiful even when I don't have the same life experiences needed to understand to the same depth. This book is hope filled because it doesn't sugar coat. Highly recommend- I just wish it were longer!
A well-articulated memoir that tells the real story of a real Palestinian. The voice is a little young, but so is the author! It makes me want to read more about Palestine.
The Stranger
Albert Camus
"There was an advertisement of Kruschen Salts and I cut it out and pasted it into an album where I keep things that amuse me in the papers."
Pinterest? Is that you?
Has Pinterest been an exercize in absurdism this whole time? I feel like the character cutting out and pasting things that amuse him in the papers is inherently absurdist, but it seems remarkably like organizing pins into pinterest boards. 😂
I am embarrassed by how little I knew about apartheid. The fact that they studied systemic rascism in other places to do it more efficiently is horrific. And it's shameful to be one of the places they studied.
Somehow the "voice" (I'm reading an ebook, not audio) is so upbeat in the middle of him telling about it- it really seems like a kid's perspective.
The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger
I just had the thought that maybe the tone/voice of this book could be the result of a non-New Yorker attempting to write stream-of-consciousness for an imaginary New Yorker (heavily stereotyped). But it turns out Salinger was from New York 🤷♀️
