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This book pretty much reminds me of another book titled What Good Girls Do by Jonathan Butcher aaand that book pretty much is way better than this, because if you think about this idea enough, this is just SAD, so SAD and DEPRESSING and most importantly SAD, but i feel like there are some limiting factors that could made this book reach its fullest potential because the situation that the main character is placed in is probably as worse than what the main character in What Good Girls Do have to endure in her life but the fact that the men in here just...doesn't make sense at all is very limiting for the novel itself because them LITERALLY not doing anything except for 'intervening when the offhand chance that someone gets violent' is a clear indication that the author doesn't want to explore the themes of violence and insanity in which when one is put into this situation WOULD DEFINITELY have violent or insane tendencies but Nopppppp this book doesn't engage with...

I got this book from an extreme horror book recommendation site and not only is it pure disturbing (literally just Hogg 2.0) it is alsooooo 🤙 stupid confusing.. which is almost the point that is trying to get across by the author. So actually the entire point of this book is to be confusing..(mirroring the effects of heroin to the author by writing in a non traditional way, "technically if you think about it it's just shit writing" but like I'm sooo meta and a good 4th wall breaker so I'll just forget the rules of grammar and syntax). Which i almost didn't know because i was too busy looking for a plot that is absolutely non-existent. Every single chapter is a totally different story with new characters, only featuring a few (mainly only one) character/s that are also present in the previous chapters. Which if you put it together, is a certified absolute mess 🤦‍♂️. This book is an embodiment of a stoner, written like how a stoner's life would be like). ...

First of all i would like to thank The New Press for the ARC¿ (kinda ARC¿) Since upon researching there's already a book named 'Art on My Mind' also by bell hooks published in 1995 aaaaaaaand this is the 30th anniversary edition :) with the original text and essays being preserved with no additional apparatus or annotations (or so I've researched). Just an additional new commissioned foreword/introduction by Mickalene Thomas, so this review will only focus on the new media being released. Cover: One that stood outs is the updated design and the cover, which consists of bell hooks in 8 beautiful photographs, my only criticism is the font present on the name and the title, it is rather odd that the text present on the photographs have this nostalgic handwriting vibe going on whilst the title, the author name, and the "Visual Politics" have this simplistic, modern, and linear vibe, which is strange because in a contrasting perspective, the photographs have much...

My 5 00th read in this world and the review  t hat sparked my first ever blogpost!