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Spoiler warning! This review contains major, in-depth spoilers for the novel both in terms of plot and emotional beats. Content warnings: the novel contains depictions of domestic violence, emotional abuse, and mentions of childhood abuse. In Sally Rooney’s second novel Normal People, people make decisions based on what other
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A showrunner and her assistant give the world something to talk about when they accidentally fuel a ridiculous rumor in this debut romance. Hollywood powerhouse Jo is photographed making her assistant Emma laugh on the red carpet, and just like that, the tabloids declare them a couple. The so-called scandal
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SPOILER WARNING: This reading journal contains major spoilers for the events of this story. Here's the spoiler-free version: Girl, Serpent, Thorn | Review. It didn’t occur to me at first, but when Soraya remarks how much she relies upon being able to be up on the roof of
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“Even if she’s upset with you now, if you do right by her, she will forgive you.” — Melissa Bashardoust, Girl, Serpent, Thorn This is the spoiler-free review of this novel. If you'd like to read my full reading journal, you can check it over on my Ko-fi.
Fantasy
I love short stories, and I love myth retellings — if you, too, love both of those things, then you’ll have a blast with Where the Wild Ladies Are. It’s a collection of retellings of Japanese myths, and set in Japan, using many of the historical locations as a
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I am all for the author indignantly rejecting the notion of her novel being Joycean. (I have never read Ulysses.)Reading the brief introduction with at least some biographical details (albeit, I feel, not a fraction of the whole story) has made me very curious for the rest of Lispector’
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Once Manu enters the Everglades sanctuary, the novel feels very different from the beginning. it becomes a different story with (somewhat) different rules, because Manu now has what she’s been seeking: contact with other people her age. More than that, people who are like her. In some ways, at
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I am very much enjoying this — quite short — novel, as bewildering as it often is. Bewildering mainly because on the one hand (and I’ve seen people bring this up in reviews on goodreads) … nothing much happens; certainly for the first half of the story. As for nothing happening: I
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This month, I’ve been reading BORNE! I started a new job and since it's on the other end of the city and I can't work from home for a while, that’s a one-hour commute each way [sarcastic cheering]. However! Since I have neither a
Young Adult
“I wanted her to change my world.” “Mi amor, only you can change your world.” — Gabby Rivera, JULIET TAKES A BREATH An excellent story about a young queer woman from the Bronx who goes to Portland for the summer to find a new love, White Feminism, and the joy of
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“War never takes the wicked man by chance, the good man always.”— Sophocles, Philoctetes Soldiers Live. They Wonder Why. The concept of The Old Guard, sketched out in the exposition and then built upon throughout, is that everyone dies — just for some, their time hasn’t come yet. The soldiers
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If I said I met my vampire prince at a ball at the King’s palace, would you believe me? — OUT OF THIS WORLD OUT OF THIS WORLD is an excellent anthology — crucially in that it introduces new readers, such as me, to such a wide variety of stories by