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Melmoth by Sarah Perry
3.5
he may have gone, but i am still here, and now what am i supposed to do with all this love?
Meantime by Frankie Boyle
4.0
rom-coms are innately radical. the central point is that it's always about a second relationship. it's about someone getting out of something that doesn't work, and into something that does. the rom-com says no matter how inescapable your current situation seems, you can escape, just not on your own. and this is also the message of radical socialism.
Booth by Karen Joy Fowler
5.0
she's long understood that no one will ever love her as much as she needs to be loved. she thinks she was born knowing this.
The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry
4.0
‘in japan they’ll mend a broken pot with drops of molten gold. what a thing it would be: to have me break you, and mend your wounds with gold.’ but she’d been seventeen, and armour-clad with youth, and never felt the blade go in