The chapters were summed up by their titles, and they got long. It did help me understand trans people a little better.

This book is extremely dark. I picked it up because of the pretty cover and Japanese setting, but it's mostly depressing. I liked the Zen elements though, since I'm interested in meditation. I skipped the chapters of Ruth's perspective a few times, they weren't as interesting as Nao's.

It took me until I was halfway done the book to be into it. I like how Lyra is a good liar, it's fun to read how she gets out of situations by lying! I also like how Lyra is a young kid, I usually read books about teens.

It's fun to watch Komi and Tadano's relationship grow!

I love seeing how Ryland solves problems with science! And even though he's alone in space, we get to see how things on Earth are through his memories slowly coming back to him.

This was fun to read! The main character is a kleptomaniac. Really cool to read how she pickpockets things. Her younger brother is annoying, but I can give him a pass cause he's 10.

This book is mostly how people started non-profit organizations, which is lovely, but I would prefer if it was more achievable acts of kindness I could do too. The design/layout of the pages is neat. I like how they are all unique.

This book had interesting and encouraging things to say about meditation. Only thing was: it was a "28 day program," which just made me feel bad about not completing the weeks. Sharon assigned 20 minute sessions to start, which is longer than I'd meditated before. It was hard to keep it consistent. I preferred Dan Harris's books, where he encourages people to start with 5 or 10 minutes.

I don't think there were any boys in this book, ever. It was an interesting take on science fiction. It wrapped up pretty quickly after a lot of action at the end, I would have preferred a more satisfying end.

It makes me laugh, because I'm socially anxious too.