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167 reviews

All This Could Be Different by Sarah Thankam Mathews

3.0

The Mars House by Natasha Pulley

2.0

On Beauty by Zadie Smith

funny lighthearted fast-paced

5.0

one of the most grounded and human books i have ever read. the belseys and the kipps are as real as anyone walking this earth and their stories are sometimes more so than our own. can't wait to collect more full and lush characters to my own inner world through zadie. a big thank you to this book

Just Kids by Patti Smith

challenging emotional hopeful mysterious reflective slow-paced

4.0

a tender portrayal of friendship at the fringes of society, yet the center of the heart. smith's writing is melancholic, yet refuses to be read as a dirge. she writes friends, idols, and acquaintances into life with equal esteem and fervour. she is an incisive witness and renders her life a poignant bildungsroman of artists, friends, lovers, and changemakers.

Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh

challenging dark emotional funny sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

These Violent Delights by Chloe Gong

dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

Remarkably mid, but i did audible gasp at some of the cringy wording so entertaining nonetheless.

Was unironically very invested in the 20s atmosphere and period shanghai setting

Freakonomics [Revised and Expanded]: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner

funny informative lighthearted fast-paced

4.0

Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us by Rachel Aviv

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

My Monticello by Jocelyn Nicole Johnson

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

2.5

The Waves by Virginia Woolf

challenging emotional mysterious reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0