Reviews and Comments

This is one of a dozen or so old books my aunt gave me a few months ago, so I'm finally looking into this one because it's a topic I've been interested in exploring for a while. I've read the first 20 pages, it's really interesting so far. I'm writing in the book, which is something I've been conflicted on doing but I think for this, where i have so many thoughts and questions, anecdotes to write, it makes sense. Journaling in the book, it honestly feels like I'm having a conversation with the book in the sense that I write my thoughts, and then I read on? Might sound crazy, but it's a really interesting approach to reading this specific book. The contents of the book itself use ways of thinking that are a bit unique for me to wrap my head around, so it's something of a journey to grasp. But I think I'm starting to understand the key concepts of this whole buddhism thing, maybe ill write it in a blog post or something idk. But cool book. Very good and cool

I loved it. There's a lot to love about it. Of course, the theme about social mobility as the title says. The plot was really off-the-walls in a lot of ways and everything the book was building up came together beautifully in the final 20 or so pages. Loved it!!!! I thought the prose, as well as how the story and character interactions is explained and told was done really uniquely here. It bends traditional writing styles, sentences tend to be more blunt and streamlined, but still rich with meaning. Will I write like Corey Fah's style? Maybe not, but I have learned that I have a craving for books with unique writing styles. This book is also queer, and it's written by a queer author, and I had no idea about that going in but it was pretty swag to discover :^) and it definitely gave the book extra depth, a supplemental flavor, because those emotions and what not were evident in all sorts of choice of wording, characterization, and off-handed lines.

Y'know, I opened Bookwyrm and I thought I wouldn't write a review for this book. I'm not good at writing reviews. But when I sat down and set the rating to 5 stars, I couldn't click post. I couldn't accept keeping my thoughts in my head!! So here you are, and you got to read them. :-)

With that said, I'll definitely come back to this book sometime, it's easily one of my favorite books I've read... well, maybe ever?