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Matilda by Roald Dahl
4.0

I still love this book. I always felt a sort of affinity for Matilda, with her book reading and feeling so different and whatnot; but it's been so long- I felt the need to revisit it. And the audiobook, narrated by Kate Winslet, is outstanding. There's still this weird, comic violence that permeates Roald Dahl that I never thought twice of as a child but feel weird about when reading it as an adult. It's not necessarily bad, just... weird. Off-putting, maybe? Still good, but... that undercurrent is certainly more palpable now.