and_abigail's reviews
351 reviews

Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout

5.0

Wonderful as her books always are

The Forbidden Notebook by Alba de Céspedes

4.0

Too terribly depressing for five stars

Island of Whispers by Frances Hardinge

4.5

Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss by Margaret Renkl

5.0

Knitting Yarns: Writers on Knitting by Ann Hood

4.0

The Memory Police by Yōko Ogawa

dark mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri

3.5

Forest of Noise: Poems by Mosab Abu Toha

5.0

I don’t even know what to say about this one. I want to reread it already. Devastating and heart wrenching and soul crushing and beautiful.

Human Acts by Han Kang

4.0

Brutal

Sweet Bean Paste by Durian Sukegawa

3.5

Interesting underlying philosophy that the meaning of life is found in bearing witness to nature and other life