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Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
5.0
Sometimes the most popular literature doesn't live up to its promise, and sometimes you finish and realize, "Oh, that's why it's the most purchased book of 2019..." I am obsessed with the weaving of Kya's narrative within a murder case as well as Owens' crafting of characters and relationships. The setting, the marsh, is included so beautifully that it becomes another character in the book, and just like the real world, the natural references in WTCS will tell you more than you needed to know if you are paying attention. Wonderful writing, a story that sticks with you.
The Office of Historical Corrections by Danielle Evans
5.0
Danielle Evans has written a collection of short stories that each end the way you know they need to end, but you don’t want to admit they need to end that way. The kind of endings you reread because either it’s so shocking, or because reading such an honest, real accounts of fictional human nature is both unnerving and stunning.
Pay close attention to the themes of the dissonant stories we create in both past and future tense, as well as the portraiture of the “good” White woman, and ultimately (as Evans says) “grief and loss, and about women unwilling to diminish their desires to live full and complex lives.”
Pay close attention to the themes of the dissonant stories we create in both past and future tense, as well as the portraiture of the “good” White woman, and ultimately (as Evans says) “grief and loss, and about women unwilling to diminish their desires to live full and complex lives.”
Infinite Country by Patricia Engel
4.0
Beautifully written, relevant.
Read if you enjoyed _The Removed_ by Brandon Hobson, or if you’re looking for a more meaningful and sensitive historical fiction depiction of immigration than American D*rt.
Read if you enjoyed _The Removed_ by Brandon Hobson, or if you’re looking for a more meaningful and sensitive historical fiction depiction of immigration than American D*rt.
All the Ugly and Wonderful Things by Bryn Greenwood
4.0
The title says all you need to know. If you can handle the ugly, this book is worth the wonderful.
The Heart's Invisible Furies by John Boyne
5.0
An edgy, entertaining, and lovely coming of age story of not only Cyril, a gay man in 1940s, unforgiving Catholic Ireland, but also his “fallen,” mother, Catherine.
I found myself laughing and “talking” to this book a lot as I read. I feel very attached to the characters. Finishing this book is how a finished book is supposed to feel: It’s sticking to my insides and I want more, but yet this book owes me nothing.
I found myself laughing and “talking” to this book a lot as I read. I feel very attached to the characters. Finishing this book is how a finished book is supposed to feel: It’s sticking to my insides and I want more, but yet this book owes me nothing.
Allegedly by Tiffany D. Jackson
4.0
Still processing, but damn.
-Highly recommend the audiobook reading.
-5 stars for character creation/development
-5 stars for tackling many complicated and sensitive themes.
-3 stars for the ending. I appreciate how the end further complicates and explains the entire arch of Mary’s life, but it’s….. unfortunate? It’s unsettling, which on one hand is meta and appropriate. On the other, it’s angering, which is also meta. The last chapter is probably the only way it should have ended, actually. Ok yes, I’m still processing.
Just read it. But check up on TW before reading, especially since it’s technically a YA novel.
-Highly recommend the audiobook reading.
-5 stars for character creation/development
-5 stars for tackling many complicated and sensitive themes.
-3 stars for the ending. I appreciate how the end further complicates and explains the entire arch of Mary’s life, but it’s….. unfortunate? It’s unsettling, which on one hand is meta and appropriate. On the other, it’s angering, which is also meta. The last chapter is probably the only way it should have ended, actually. Ok yes, I’m still processing.
Just read it. But check up on TW before reading, especially since it’s technically a YA novel.