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I read...a fair bit and want to move away from Goodreads

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Yu Kinutani: The Ghost In The Shell Stand Alone Complex (2011, Kodansha Comics)

it's a long time since I read any Ghost in the Shell, but it's a bad start when I'm unimpressed by the misogynistic cover. It doesn't get much better from there. Lots of not much and churny imagery. Let's see if it improves

Douglas Stuart, Douglas K. Stuart, Douglas T. Stuart: Shuggie Bain (EBook, 2020, Grove Press)

Shuggie Bain is the unforgettable story of young Hugh “Shuggie” Bain, a sweet and lonely …

What happens when your love is co-dependant. Mostly tender, with a large side of harshness. I wonder how much of its success is down to white liberals love of working class porn so they can pretend their nothing like Agnes while we sit around our dinner tables or in our soft furnished living spaces skulling litres of chardonnay or fat fingers of $200 scotch.