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The Beggar Student
Osamu Dazai
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Picked this book up at random at the library and I can immediately tell that I’m going to be reading more Dazai in the future.
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The Beggar Student
Osamu Dazai
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This was a fun reread! I only vaguely remember reading this as a young kid and was surprised at all the different directions the plot ends up going.
This book is good at evoking my emotions but I’m put off by how artificial it still feels despite that. I thought some aspects of the plot (intentions, goals, how dystopian it feels) could have been written or explained better, and it took away a little from the whole experience.
Fun nonetheless! It’s easy to lose track of time because of the quick pacing and short chapters that fly by. I’ll definitely be reading the rest of this series (rare for me lol).
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The Angel Experiment
James Patterson
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This is one DENSE book. Dr. Goodall combines historic and emotional anecdotal stories + scientific information that sometimes it can be a lot at once 😆. This definitely isn’t something for me to read through in a week; plant info overload is real, even with how fascinating it all is.
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The problem of most YA for me is very stark in this book: adults writing teens. I understand that James Patterson is great at writing YA. The writing itself is not a problem (mostly)! But knowing that an adult wrote these teenage emotions gives me a mild ick. Going to keep reading so maybe I’ll get used to it 🙂↕️.