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Bitter Water Opera by Nicolette Polek

challenging reflective relaxing medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

A small little vignette of a book.  Beautifully written but it just didn't stick with me.  I wanted Marta to stay / come back and she never did.  

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

funny lighthearted medium-paced

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

3.0

This wasn't as good as I wanted it to be.  I did enjoy the vibe of "Fuck Mr. Darcy" though!

No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood

dark emotional funny fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

This book is a lot.  Funny, emotional, perverse, raw.  Rarely has an acknowledgement page hit me so hard.  

Funniest line: "Moby-Dick... was ableist... to Captain Ahab?"

Most emotional line: "What they repeated, oddly enough and over and over, was that she had done a good job."

String Theory: David Foster Wallace on Tennis by David Foster Wallace

funny informative fast-paced

4.5

I very much enjoyed this book, I like his writing, I like tennis, I like his writing about tennis (and math), if you also like DFW and/or tennis, you will like this book.

Babel by R.F. Kuang

adventurous challenging tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

Bumped up from 3 for the last 50 pages.  This book is very long and interesting and it drags at times and at times I didn't care about it but overall it makes you think a lot, about languages and colonialism and what it means to be "in."  It wasn't quite as enchanting as I hoped it would be but it gave me a lot to think about.

Incest: From "A Journal of Love": The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1932-1934 by Anaïs Nin

challenging dark mysterious reflective slow-paced

3.0

This wasn't as compelling as previous volumes.  The first 1/3 is boring, middle 1/3 disturbing, last 1/3 actually enjoyable.

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

challenging dark funny sad fast-paced

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

5.0

This book is lovely, very different experiencing reading it now vs when I was 16.  I found the end very hopeful, which I don't remember feeling before.  The depressive scenes are quite harrowing but overall this book made me feel better.

Carpool by Noelle Adams
Did not finish book. Stopped at 43%.

Just got pretty bored with it, as soon as they first kissed I realized I don't care and she's kind of annoying.

The Infertile Midwife: In Search of Motherhood - a Memoir by Sophie Martin

challenging emotional sad fast-paced

2.0

I liked this book until it became obvious that she was going to get her "happy ending" and I would no longer have anything in common with her.  The first half was quite relevant and touching.

She's Gone by David Bell

adventurous mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.5

I got this in a blind date box.  This is the first "thriller" I've read in a decade and I enjoyed it!  Young adult so not too scary but there were some plot twists I didn't see coming and I didn't figure out the ending and I liked that.  MC is super dumb and annoying but he's a 17 year old boy so I guess it's allowed?  Makes me want to read some more thrillers!