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Son by Lois Lowry

adventurous emotional hopeful medium-paced

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

3.75

we need to give more respect to how beautiful Claire's coming-of-age narrative is. 

(and we need to honor Jonas as the young adult heartthrob he is. like he saved a baby and then became a powerful leader and now is a good husband and dad? Lois Lowry really did us a favor and we have given her nothing in return.)

but Claire's coming-of-age narrative? stunning. beautiful. a great commentary on sacrifice and motherhood.

Fish in a Tree by Lynda Mullaly Hunt

emotional hopeful informative inspiring 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

3.5

Mr. Daniels is my new teaching icon. Shay, however, would not survive a week in Miss Mulligan's classroom.

Please Don't Go Before I Get Better by Madisen Kuhn

emotional reflective

3.5

I love love love Madisen Kuhn in all of her passionate and messy and repetitive and heartaching glory!!! that's all <3

King Henry VIII: The Oxford Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

challenging tense slow-paced

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

1.5

you ever been bored to tears? cause I have.

Messenger by Lois Lowry

adventurous emotional mysterious fast-paced

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

4.0

the transcendentalists are screaming right now.

Faithful and Virtuous Night by Louise Glück

challenging reflective fast-paced

3.75

"But to abandon you, said the other, would be to leave a part of myself behind, and how can I do that when I do not know which part you are?" (59)

whimsical and dreamy, but still slaps you with reality at the most unexpected times.

note: read for ENGL 495 - Senior Capstone: Memory, Trauma, and Nostalgia 

Postcolonial Love Poem by Natalie Díaz

challenging emotional informative reflective slow-paced

4.0

"what we become grows weight / becomes enough or burden" transformed me into a new woman.

 

note: read for ENGL 495 - Senior Capstone: Memory, Trauma, and Nostalgia 

Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry

adventurous hopeful mysterious fast-paced

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

3.0

so does Lois Lowry always have horrendous endings? like does she not believe in a lil thing called closure?

The Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare

adventurous dark emotional fast-paced

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

3.0

if Oedipus Rex and Christianity had a baby with a very intriguing three acts followed by two more very boring acts, this is it.

note: read for ENGL 384R - Author Studies: Shakespeare

Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders

challenging emotional funny reflective slow-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

this is truly the most unhinged novel I've ever read and I don't state that lightly.

(but to get soft for a moment, one of my kids from summer as a camp counselor passed away almost three weeks ago. the grief and the joy and the possibility of this book has began to heal me.)

 note: read for ENGL 495 - Senior Capstone: Memory, Trauma, and Nostalgia