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720 reviews

The Lamb by Lucy Rose
Did not finish book. Stopped at 15%.

I don’t think I care about the narrative and the prose is almost robotic with its constantly short sentences. I think that may be to emphasize the child narrator but I’m longing for prose that makes me feel something. 

Red Seas Under Red Skies by Scott Lynch

3.5

Walk the Blue Fields by Claire Keegan

3.5

The Forester’s Daughter is a 5 star read. 

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

4.5

The Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare

4.0

Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl

3.5

The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead

medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character

2.5

Maggie's Grave by David Sodergren

dark funny mysterious tense medium-paced

4.0

Metamorphoses by Ovid

challenging inspiring reflective slow-paced

4.5

Dust by Hugh Howey

3.0