From Russia With Love by Ian Fleming

From Russia With Love by Ian Fleming
My rating: 1 of 5 stars

DNF at 50%. I was humming along with this ridiculous plot. A female Russian spy basically announces herself to James Bond instead of actually being sneaky, but I thought, whatever, it’s just a fun trashy book. But then I hit a big rapey wall of misogyny and nope I can’t do it. Life is too short. I’m taking the rest of the Bond books off my physical and Goodreads to-read shelves. They’re all a racist-sexist mess.

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Uglies by Scott Westerfeld

Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Sometimes you need a light dystopian chick lit novel. This is fast and easy, and the story has all the basic things, but nothing particularly special or exciting to it. Tally lives in a world where at 16, you get extensive plastic surgery to be pretty. The young "ugly" kids and the "pretties" live separately. Tally finds out little by little that this isn't as utopian as it first appears, and then no spoilers but [adventure happens], [more adventure], and then as Tally embarks on [the third adventure], the book ends. So there you are.

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