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69 reviews

Bliss Montage by Ling Ma

emotional reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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

4.0

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

emotional reflective slow-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? No

5.0

oh my GOD

Please Make Me Pretty, I Don't Want to Die: Poems by Tawanda Mulalu

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

5.0

[...]Or the folds of you when you stretched on top of me
then back and forth. Or the calling of us in the long day times and the
reappearances of birds like mixtape summers. It sounds the same.

From "Prayer"

A stunning collection. 

The Salt Grows Heavy by Cassandra Khaw

dark emotional slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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

3.5

The Two Doctors Górski by Isaac Fellman

reflective medium-paced

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

3.5

The prose rules heavily, and the premise/concept is so interesting but it falls flat. 

Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory: Stories by Raphael Bob-Waksberg

dark emotional funny reflective medium-paced

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

4.0

Hit or Not Nearly as Much of a Hit with the stories as most collections go, and very very on the nose as a whole, but very human and very enjoyable. 

Orlando by Virginia Woolf

slow-paced

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

2.0

Grocery Shopping with My Mother by Kevin Powell

emotional reflective fast-paced

4.0

Midwood: Poems by Jana Prikryl

challenging reflective fast-paced

3.0

it's mixed with shame
seduces
have mercy, if mercy will empty you like an appetite

- From "On Desire" 

Lord of the Butterflies by Andrea Gibson

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

4.25

I could feel hope
traveling backward
to find us, 

to whisper into our chests
There will be music for you
one day.

From "First Love"