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On Being Different: What It Means to Be a Homosexual by Merle Miller

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challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

4.75


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The Road Through the Wall by Shirley Jackson

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

4.0


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La Bastarda by Trifonia Melibea Obono

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challenging hopeful fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

2.0


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Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl

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informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

3.5


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The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

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dark mysterious tense slow-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

4.75


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The Dangers of Smoking in Bed by Mariana EnrĂ­quez

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

2.75


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Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson

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challenging emotional hopeful reflective fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0


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Lapvona by Ottessa Moshfegh

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Did not finish book. Stopped at 43%.
A boring, horrifying for the sake of it, slog of a story. The writing's interesting enough, but the story feels pointless.

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A Short History of Myth by Karen Armstrong

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hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

2.75

This book has some bad parts, for example the author's mixing of her opinion with facts, which can be very misleading for people taking her writing at face value. It also has many good parts, it's an easy introduction to this topic and I personally loved the conclusion of this book. I didn't fully agree with certain sections but I feel like I took away some good information from this book. Although, a fair warning to everyone, this book does include the words r*tarded and E*kimos, both of which are slurs, though they aren't used cruely, simply out of ignorance, since this was published on 2005.

Other than that, it's a decent enough book for what it's meant to be, a quick introduction to a very complicated topic, even the author does makes many generalizations and doesn't back herself up with sources quite as much as she should.
No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood

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

1.75

Another bland book that got way too overhyped. The writing is boring and I don't like the characters. I can kinda undertsand what the author was going for but that doesn't mean I like it.

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