Mildly Mediocre Book Reviews

okay new quastion what is everyone's white whale book for 2026. the book you've been meaning to read forever and never got to for whatever reason. mine are house of leaves and the spear cuts through water and if I don't read them in 2026 they're going to put me down like a dog

i love the public library #mypubliclibrary

my reading goal in 2026 is to have fun and be myself

a court of thorns and roses. ballad of songbirds and snakes. bowl of macaroni and cheese

if A Little Life has a million haters i’m one of them. if A Little Life has one hater it's me. if A Little Life has zero haters i have died. if the world is against A Little Life i am with the world, but if the world is for A Little Life then i am against the world.

you’re laughing at me. i just told you that the reason my hands are always so cold is because i’ve been dead for seven years and you’re laughing at me.

being a poet is so embarrassing. here's another poem about how my dad sucks. yeah im gonna write 200 more of them

hearing "ley line" like a sleeper agent activation phrase and having to shut the hell up when someone starts explaining how they work in any other media. nodding all uh huh yeah okay that's cool. but are there creatures made of ley line energy though. do sentient forests sit on them. do the forests yearn. do they dream.

I can't wait for all the books I'm going to read once I finish all these books

obsessed with mass market paperbacks. their pleasing rectangular proportions. how they fit badly in a hoodie pocket so you can drag them around everywhere with you like a temporary little buddy. the way they fit in your hand because they're MADE for human hands and not as bookshelf decoration. the way the pages feel when you riffle them gently with your thumb. How pristine and crisp they look when you get them and how creased and folded they look when you're done, even if you try to be nice to them. how that wear is okay, how that's correct actually, because they're made with the philosophy that books aren't meant to be PRETTY, they're meant to be read. that little ripple new ones get on the left side from where you hold them when you're reading, the way the ripple only goes as far as you've read, because u change stories by reading as they are changing you. how you can find thousands of these creased and folded and loved little dudes in every thrift store and used book shop and neighborhood library and you can instantly see the ones that someone carried around in a backpack for weeks or read to pieces or gave up on halfway through because they wear being read like fresh snow wears footprints. I love these poorly made, subpar little rectangles so much. truly the people's books.