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The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon
Did not finish book. Stopped at 55%.

I hate this book.  First of all it is way too long.  But my main issue is the very descriptive rape scenes followed immediately by "romantic" love scenes.  It was jarring and disturbing.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual content, and Sexual violence

Vita Nostra by Sergey Dyachenko, Marina Dyachenko

3.0

The Lighthouse Witches by C.J. Cooke

2.0

Home Is Where the Bodies Are by Jeneva Rose

4.0

Fun. I liked it.

The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. Le Guin

2.0

So boring.

A Grandmother Begins the Story by Michelle Porter

challenging emotional funny hopeful

5.0

Wow - amazing. I tried to read this last year and gave up after a few pages.  I'm so glad I gave it another try. We have many perspectives including people (some who are dead), animals, the earth and even a car. It took focus but was completely worth it. It was emotional and beautiful.

One Piece, Vol. 1: Romance Dawn by Eiichiro Oda

adventurous funny lighthearted fast-paced

4.0

I don't like Manga but my son in law loves One Piece so I decided to read this just to get an idea of what it is. Shockingly, I kind of liked it.

Quantum Radio by A.G. Riddle

adventurous fast-paced

4.0

As fun as I expected. 

The Witch's Lens by Luanne G. Smith
Did not finish book. Stopped at 53%.

The writing is good and the story was interesting to begin with but once it got to the war, I lost interest.

Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

slow-paced

2.0

Maybe I'm extremel  cold hearted.  I found this so completely boring.