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Am I kinda shipping Genry and Harth, Mr. Ai? "Who uses first names? Hearth-brothers, or friends." They are not friends and Genry is hurt about it.

As a gay trans non-binary person who has never engaged in heterosexuality, reading this book felt like reading a work of science fiction about an alien civilization. It was fun, and sometimes depressing, but most of the times I was baffled by the depictions of men, women and their marriages. I felt like I was watching a David Attenborough documentary on straight cis people. I did double takes and I had to double check with my straight friends. (According to them, apparently sometimes it kinda is like that, but the machiavellianism is less elaborate?)

Overall, a fun read with despisable characters that I had a hard time understanding, but I think that's on me. The real villain of the book was heteronormativity, and the real victim was Detective Boney.

Been reading lots of memoirs and non-fiction lately so I thought I would give this a read. I watched the movie first, hopefully I can enjoy the book.

This book felt personal, in a good way. I liked it more than its successor, Amateur, although at times it felt a bit inscrutable in its writing, probably because of that same personal nature.

I found some interesting and novel ideas about masculinity, but I felt most of them lacked development. They felt like glimpses of light, some interesting perspectives about familiar subjects, and I only wish the author had spent some more time delving into them. Perhaps I was waiting for a more 'academic' text. The book does include some short interviews with researchers and includes a reading list at the end, which is great and I'll probably find what I was looking for in some of them.