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Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt

emotional funny lighthearted medium-paced

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

3.0

Very cute. Wanted way more Marcellus. 

Weasels in the Attic by Hiroko Oyamada

emotional reflective fast-paced

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

3.0

A Brilliant Loss by Eloise Klein Healy

emotional hopeful reflective fast-paced

3.5

Meet Me at the Lighthouse: Poems by Dana Gioia

emotional reflective fast-paced

3.5

Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

emotional informative reflective sad slow-paced

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

5.0

History has failed us, but no matter.

Cotton Candy: Poems Dipped Out of the Air by Ted Kooser

reflective medium-paced

3.5

Balladz by Sharon Olds

challenging emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

 Love is the love of who we are, it is a form of knowing.
- From "Komodo" 

Night Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong

challenging emotional reflective fast-paced

5.0

Dear god, if you are a season, let it be the one I passed through
to get here.

Here. That's all I wanted to be.

I promise.

- From "Notebook Fragments" 

Almost an Elegy: New and Later Selected Poems by Linda Pastan

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.25

And that dark shape menacing
your every footstep
could be no more
than your own obedient shadow.

- From "Squint" 

Ghost Music by An Yu

emotional reflective fast-paced

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

3.0