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So offen die Welt: Gedichte by Ulla Hahn

emotional reflective relaxing medium-paced

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

5.0

Call of the Bone Ships by RJ Barker

adventurous dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

3.75

Still not loving the style of prose, still loving the worldbuilding. Overall a much better book than the first instalment; the plot was immediately more gripping, mainly because there was a mystery element to it that I missed in the first book. Well, and because the slow introduction the the world was already done and I had the Hundred Isles vocabulary, I guess. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Physical abuse, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, and Deportation

Moderate: Ableism, Animal death, Panic attacks/disorders, and Grief

Minor: Child death, Miscarriage, Rape, Slavery, Xenophobia, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Acephobia/Arophobia, Fire/Fire injury, War, and Classism

Naokos Lächeln: Nur eine Liebesgeschichte by Haruki Murakami

dark emotional sad medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Mental illness, Sexual content, Suicide, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Cancer, Sexism, Sexual assault, Death of parent, and Alcohol

Minor: Infidelity

Ich bin am Leben by Yirgalem Fisseha Mebrahtu

dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Confinement

dreizehn +13 Gedichte: Lyrik vom Meer by Katharina Pütter, Barbara Heine

informative reflective relaxing fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Death, Antisemitism, Fire/Fire injury, and War

Ausgewählte Essays by Jorge Luis Borges

challenging reflective relaxing slow-paced

1.5

Die Dame vom See by Andrzej Sapkowski

adventurous dark emotional funny sad 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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexual violence, Violence, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Confinement, Hate crime, Rape, Blood, Medical content, Grief, and Cannibalism

Minor: Incest, Infidelity, Torture, Vomit, Pregnancy, Deportation, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Katharina by Günter Eich

fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide

Moderate: Grief

The World of Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse

funny lighthearted relaxing medium-paced

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

4.5

Lighthearted and laughing-out-loud funny, really the book to cheer you up. 
The stories can be a bit schematic and repetitive, I recommend not reading more than one or two at a time. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body shaming

Minor: Sexism and Classism

Am Gletscher by Halldór Laxness

adventurous challenging funny mysterious reflective medium-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death

Minor: Child death and Infidelity