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brutalizermp3

(she/her): pretentious classics enjoyer, period drama aficionado, tbr collector, and occasional writer.

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Made for the Movies
Level 3
From Bookshelf to TV
Reading...Normal People
My Taste
Anna Karenina
Pachinko
City of Bones (The Mortal Instruments, #1)
If We Were Villains
Great Expectations

brutalizermp3 commented on lucyPagebound's review of Evenings and Weekends

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  • Evenings and Weekends
    lucyPagebound
    May 29, 2025
    2.5
    Enjoyment: 2.5Quality: 3.0Characters: 3.0Plot: 2.5
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    Marketed as "for fans of Sally Rooney," yet fell short. I think what Rooney does so well is portray characters who think and speak like real people, full of good and bad, ennui and yearning. The characters in this book felt like caricatures, where their main secrets and sources of conflict boiled down to surface-level identities/markers--being queer, poor, sick.

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  • Chlorine
    brutalizermp3
    May 28, 2025
    2.5
    Enjoyment: 1.5Quality: 3.0Characters: 2.5Plot: 2.5
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    glad to be leaving this book behind in may. a shame because on paper, it felt like everything i was looking for in a book. instead what i got was a book with bordering-on-purple prose and metaphors so heavy handed they might as well have been hitting me with a brick.

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  • brutalizermp3 commented on a post

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  • Chlorine
    Reading Update from 58%

    If this wasn't an audiobook I would have DNF'd by now, because honestly wth his happening. Every character is unlikeable - I have a high tolerance for unlikeable characters and often find it makes things more interesting, but this is next level. Cathy is pathetic, Ren is heartless and flat, and the men are awful caricatures of toxic masculinity. If there's a message in here somewhere, I've yet to find it.

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    Thoughts from 13%

    unfortunately, this is definitely turning into a spite read for me. in which i will be finishing it because i don't like to dnf books

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  • brutalizermp3 commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum

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  • To DNF... or to pause, that is the question?

    What do you usually do if there's a book that you started to read and realized you weren't really in the mood for a book like this but you're not sure WHEN you'll be. Do you pause it when you go to log the book OR just DNF it?

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  • To DNF... or to pause, that is the question?

    What do you usually do if there's a book that you started to read and realized you weren't really in the mood for a book like this but you're not sure WHEN you'll be. Do you pause it when you go to log the book OR just DNF it?

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  • brutalizermp3 wants to read...

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    The Favorites

    The Favorites

    Layne Fargo

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  • Beach Read
    brutalizermp3
    May 12, 2025
    3.5
    Enjoyment: 4.0Quality: 4.0Characters: 3.5Plot: 3.5
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    after people we meet on vacation completely surprised me, aka i enjoyed a first person romance after the longest time, i decided to give emily henry another shot. i chose beach read purely because i saw one too many fancasts of logan lerman as gus on tiktok and hey... that was once my white boy of the century. what's a girl to do? beach read is a perfectly serviceable romance novel. it hits all the notes and does them in a way that doesn't feel overwrought or repetitive. what i enjoy, i think, about emily henry's work (after having read two of her novels) is how the character journey is just as important as the love story. the love makes both of them grow, not just the grumpy male protagonist. i also really liked how she poked fun at the "fairy princess", manic pixie dream girl trope through january. but at the end of it, i still think i liked people we meet on vacation more. also, in the immortal words of sabrina carpenter, please, please, please... let the arguments last a little longer! delicious angst is nothing to fear!

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  • brutalizermp3 wants to read...

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    The Bogside Boys

    The Bogside Boys

    Eoin Dempsey

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    Saltwater

    Saltwater

    Jessica Andrews

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    Model Home

    Model Home

    Rivers Solomon

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    Post from the Beach Read forum

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    Thoughts from 17%

    "sexy, evil Gus" is totallyyyy something i would call my rival... NOT

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  • Ghosts of the Shadow Market
    Thoughts from 35%

    since it's an anthology, is it cheating if i skip over a couple stories 🤔

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  • Post from the Beach Read forum

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  • Beach Read
    Thoughts from 1%

    I love that period of my reading habits where I decide to read like 10 books at a time

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