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Ordbok for overlevelse by Ingeborg Senneset

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challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

4.75

Everyone should read this. Very succinct and honest. It made me feel so seen and also very hopeful, which is incredible, cause I rarely relate to so called "self-help" books... But this was just the author telling her story and understanding that her experiences, though special and unique to her, are lived by a lot of people. 

I will recommend this to anyone ever 
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Saga, Vol. 10 by Brian K. Vaughan

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

3.25

And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

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

5.0

The Fragile Threads of Power by V.E. Schwab

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adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

Happy Place by Emily Henry

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emotional hopeful medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

This was just fine to me, I found it fell into the miscommunication trap too many times, not just between the main couple, but also between the main character and her friends, her family and also in the subplots between the friends, so  the first three quarters dragged quite a bit. 

However, I really loved reading about the relationship between Harriet and her parents... I felt very seen, and I thought her whole emotional journey was really great. The lasy quarter also was good, but the road to it was loooong.
A Passage North by Anuk Arudpragasam

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

3.5

I wanted to read more from Sri Lankan authors AND read more books outside my comfort zone, so I picked this up knowing it was heavy on the introspection (is that a word?). The 2/3 of this book flew by, and I absolutely loved it. The secondary characters were so great I didn't even think of how it's all in the main character's head. However, in the last third, the main character is by themselves and the pace slowed down too much for me, and I sadly lost interest. 
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The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming by David Wallace-Wells

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challenging dark informative reflective tense slow-paced

3.75

This book is A LOT. It was so interesting to listen to a clearly well-researched collection of data, and the the language, in my opinion, was accessible. It's quite repetitive in parts, and while that's understandable as many of the topics he highlight naturally cross over, but in the end I felt too overwhelmed (probably the purpose of it) and I struggled to keep track of the audiobook the last two hours. I might revisit this again, and take it even slower than I did, so I can take time to fully grasp everything
Lore Olympus: Volume Four by Rachel Smythe

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emotional funny lighthearted mysterious reflective fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0

I gathered from the previous three books that the burn would be slow, but my god... I think the previous was more sizzling, this has more of a middle-book syndrome to it. I still enjoyed Persephone's character development!
Effin' Birds: A Field Guide to Identification by Aaron Reynolds

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funny lighthearted fast-paced

3.0

Funny concept. I think the book was just a little too long so, for me, it got a bit old. But then, I don't think this is supposed to be consumes in one sitting either
The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo

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

4.0

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