Quill & Queer

eclectic reader from somerset, uk

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Marjane Satrapi, cartoonist and film director, best known for Persepolis

22 November 1969 - 4 June 2026

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Taiwan Travelogue - Book Covers

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Weekly Reading Update || 1st June

Read Last Week

The Nights Are Quiet In Tehran: Intergenerational stories have been a huge hit for me recently, but there was a disconnect in this that I struggled to understand. 3/5

Break Room: This was such a strange concept of the start of a book, that felt like the author immediately got bored of writing it. 2/5

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Bristol this week

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sex is a distraction from your true purpose in life which is to go to the aquarium and look at the fish and go "wooooooaaah.... fishies". cmon guys we all need to lock in.

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Weekly Reading Update || 24th May

Read This Week

The Wall: What if Jon Snow went to the wall in future Dystopian England instead? Seems to be the premise of this book, but for me, it failed to have a point. 3/5

Vanishing World: This book is so subtly clever, by the end turning what I thought was a mediocre "what if?" experiment into a full blown horror. 5/5

Decomposition Book: Finding a New Best Friend in the form of a corpse in the woods is great until you remember that they were a Real Person With Feelings 4/5

Taiwan Travelogue: Colonialism told through the story of Japanese woman's desire to consume Taiwan's culture through their food, this was a slow story to get through. 3/5

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this week 24.05.2026

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Weekly Reading Update || 3rd May

Read This Week

The Ending Writes Itself: As long as you're not expecting a murder mystery masterpiece, this story is a lot of fun and I had a great time reading it. 4/5

Aborescence: I truly went from oh! a quirky tree book! to sobbing my way through this entire story. (again) 5/5

The Weeds: They float, a ghost, above the Colosseum, wondering when the hell this book will offer up a satisfying conclusion. 2/5

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Weekly Reading Update || 19th April

Read This Week

Heap Earth Upon It: Chloe Michelle Howarth makes yearning feel exactly like it's supposed to - a sick, cloying, endless want, the characters drowning in their own emotions. 5/5

Wolf Worm: Kingfisher really took that blowfly girl creepypasta and decided to make a whole novel of it, and somehow I always knew we were leading up to this. 1/5

Vanishing Cherry Blossom Bookshop: I know that if a cat is called Incense Box that I'm in for a great read, and tying the bookshop's customers with popular novels was such a fun concept. 4/5

A Beast Slinks Towards Beijing: A harrowing, dark story of three generations of one family, as they grapple with the trauma carried on by the next generation, and try to heal.

The Leather Boys: Such an important story for the era it was released, but from a modern perspective this was bleak and unsatisfying to read. 3/5

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My Dark Vanessa - International Book Covers

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Weekly Reading Update || 12th April

Read This Week

On The Calculation Of Volume III: Once again, men promise me hope and then continue to be a disappointment. 4/5

The Sentence: A pandemic novel that started off very strong, but took some interesting and strange turns that made the pacing feel off, for me. 3/5

On The Calculation Of Volume IV: This was such a slog to get through, but that ending had me pointing and hollering at the walls. This series drags me back in every damn time. 3/5

A Planet Called Happy: I wanted just a moment or two to be able to enjoy the different park themes, but this book dragged me along like an overexcited dog on a lead. 3/5

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Project Hail Mary: International Book Covers

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Weekly Reading Update || 5th April

Read This Week

Manny And The Baby: An incredibly moving portrait of largely unrepresented Black British history, set between London and Bath. 5/5

No Longer Human: A true accomplishment to write a character so devoid of any personality or likeability, and still make the story somewhat readable. 2/5

Wildwood: A strong modern day version of Narnia/Blyton, I'm just not sure it needed to be over 500 pages long. 3/5

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