📗 Non-Fiction books I've given up on this year:
"Stalking the Atomic City: Life Among the Decadent and the Depraved of Chornobyl" by Markiyan Kamysh
I should have believed the title. The author really is depraved. I could hardly stomach all the 'look at me being a bad boy' attitude nonsense, but I hated the way he talked about women too much and eventually gave up.
"I Choose Elena" by Lucia Osborne-Crowley
I think the book is okay and I wish the author all the best. It was just too triggering for me. Almost all my life I have not been taken seriously medically. Every symptom was pushed into the 'hysterical woman with traumas' category. In this book it's discussed that the link between trauma and chronic illness isn't emphasized enough, but in my experience, it's all that is emphasized and it's too much. I think this just pushed too many buttons of my medical trauma.
"The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight" by Andrew Leland
Literally dropped it after reading the introduction because I was so annoyed about the way he spoke about the pandemic ('it's endemic now blabla') and because he sounded generally insensitive about ableist topics. I lost all will to explore the rest of the book.
"A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: A Palestine Story" by Nathan Thrall
This book is good, but I gave up I think 1/3 through. I've been reading a lot of books about/from Palestine in the last few years. Sometimes it becomes it a bit much to bear. For a difficult subject, I want the reading experience to be as tolerable as possible. The structure of this book is kind of hard (it's not one day, it's a full life history). I don't really like it when a person is talked about, instead of a person telling their story themselves. I was postponing this constantly, until I ultimately gave up. This might be right for you in you want to read something related to Palestine, but you're more of a fiction reader (it's non-fiction but reads very much like a family drama or historical fiction).
"Exotic Vetting" by Romain Pizzi
This was too much all over the place for me. Not really coherent, more stream of consciousness with animal facts about different animals in every sentence. Could've used more editing or structure.
(6/9)
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