Jonathan’s Reviews > In the Dream House > Status Update
Jonathan
is 99% done
i do question if i have any sense of someone building intrigue at all since i am usually not a quitter of books and tend to read faster the less i enjoy one. it's not an enjoyable experience. my notes on her short story collection said 'determined to never read her again', should have stuck to it. it's a tangle of me simply not liking her, the middle class vibes of it all and the walls kept intact btw author & reader
— 14 hours, 41 min ago
Like flag
Jonathan’s Previous Updates
Jonathan
is 75% done
interrupting a memoir about a topic as difficult as emotional abuse with pop culture references and factual stories about domestic abuse that escalated to murder distorts its focus. there's a lot of reluctance to bare herself as expected of a memoir. i think the closest this book came was a mention of why people like to live close to volcanoes, as in this gf, but there's near zero about this inner conflict otherwise.
— Jan 27, 2026 08:40AM
Jonathan
is 64% done
idk that i enjoy this book, maybe because it often takes the tone of a lecture for the uninitiated...? (those refusing the possibility of violent/abusive women at large and queer women in particular). idk it's strange i'll have to think about it some more
— Jan 26, 2026 04:09PM
