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Phasers on Stun!: How the Making--And Remaking--Of Star Trek Changed the World by Ryan Britt

informative inspiring medium-paced

4.5

Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance by Alison Espach

emotional medium-paced

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

3.0

The title was misleading. I thought it was going to be a mystery story where the main character thinks someone is dead, who later turns out to be alive. But it was a drama instead of a mystery. Otherwise, it was well written and I liked it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident

Moderate: Grief

Dropping Ashes on the Buddha: The Teachings of Zen Master Seung Sahn by Stephen Mitchell

inspiring reflective slow-paced

3.5

Half a Crown by Jo Walton

adventurous mysterious medium-paced

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

5.0

A Night Like This by Julia Quinn

adventurous emotional medium-paced

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

3.0

Ha'penny by Jo Walton

dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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

5.0

The Benevolent Society of Ill-Mannered Ladies by Alison Goodman

adventurous emotional fast-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? Yes

5.0

A Regency romance about people in their forties falling in love while fighting injustice. What a good change of pace from the light ones about people in their twenties! 

Farthing by Jo Walton

dark mysterious fast-paced

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

5.0

The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert

adventurous dark mysterious 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? Yes

4.0

I understand why people would either love this or hate it. It’s a story (or stories) within a story, and that wasn’t well explained. But I liked it and might read the second one. 

The Secret Book of Flora Lea by Patti Callahan Henry

mysterious reflective slow-paced

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

2.5

It was slow-paced and repetitive in a way I didn’t like. A strange use of “parallel timelines” as the flashbacks were already described in the “twenty years later” chapters, so why have flashback chapters at all? They didn’t add new information to the story much.