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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Unknown
adventurous
mysterious
reflective
5.0
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if no one else got me, I know alliterative bob-and-wheel verse got me
if no one else got me, I know alliterative bob-and-wheel verse got me
Annie on My Mind by Nancy Garden
emotional
hopeful
reflective
5.0
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why does this novel have the power to turn me feral 40 years after its publication? it's not just about "being a gay teen in the 80s," it's about two souls finding and re-finding each other, despite the obstacles
why does this novel have the power to turn me feral 40 years after its publication? it's not just about "being a gay teen in the 80s," it's about two souls finding and re-finding each other, despite the obstacles
Le Jardin, Paris by Gaëlle Geniller
inspiring
lighthearted
reflective
5.0
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Had to order this book from France because the artist keeps posting fanart of her own OCs on instagram and I'm obsessed
J'ai dû procurer ce livre en France parce que l'artiste toujours poste "fanart" de ses propres personnages originaux sur instagram, et je suis obsédée par eux
Had to order this book from France because the artist keeps posting fanart of her own OCs on instagram and I'm obsessed
J'ai dû procurer ce livre en France parce que l'artiste toujours poste "fanart" de ses propres personnages originaux sur instagram, et je suis obsédée par eux
It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover
dark
emotional
hopeful
3.0
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At first I was really distracted by the silly details, but this story is not bad if you consider the psychoanalytical letters to Ellen Degeneres to be "camp"
At first I was really distracted by the silly details, but this story is not bad if you consider the psychoanalytical letters to Ellen Degeneres to be "camp"
Coyote Lost and Found by Dan Gemeinhart
emotional
hopeful
reflective
sad
5.0
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No book has ever made me cry so many times (in a healing way not a miserable way)
No book has ever made me cry so many times (in a healing way not a miserable way)
Trickster's Choice by Tamora Pierce
adventurous
4.5
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The ideal man isn't even a man. He's a crow. Need a bf to drop shiny things near me and roost in a tree.
The ideal man isn't even a man. He's a crow. Need a bf to drop shiny things near me and roost in a tree.
Here Comes Kitty: A Comic Opera by Richard Kraft
challenging
mysterious
reflective
4.0
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this book is like a workout for visual-literary-philosophical comprehension. My brain has muscular fatigue.
"Your world [...] move[s] among different realms of experience, all of them somehow in the 'foreground,' none of them prioritized. It's all just always-already there. Or is it here? The real question now becomes quite urgent; how do we know which or what among these diverse ideas and images are significant, important, relevant? How do we form judgments, like the Old Testament God, within a matrix of everything all the time?" (58)
this book is like a workout for visual-literary-philosophical comprehension. My brain has muscular fatigue.
"Your world [...] move[s] among different realms of experience, all of them somehow in the 'foreground,' none of them prioritized. It's all just always-already there. Or is it here? The real question now becomes quite urgent; how do we know which or what among these diverse ideas and images are significant, important, relevant? How do we form judgments, like the Old Testament God, within a matrix of everything all the time?" (58)
Aphrodite: A Memoir of the Senses by Isabel Allende
funny
informative
inspiring
4.0
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"So what if you make a mistake? No one is filming your errors. I invent them in the inspiration of the moment, and I can never repeat them– which is why you won't find mine here."
I love this style of nonfiction, almost a scrapbook of art, literature, history, culture, and personal experience, together composing a collage which depicts a world where food is more than just sustenance (that said, elements of the text & design date this as an artifact of the mid-90s; I would love to read an updated anniversary edition).
"So what if you make a mistake? No one is filming your errors. I invent them in the inspiration of the moment, and I can never repeat them– which is why you won't find mine here."
I love this style of nonfiction, almost a scrapbook of art, literature, history, culture, and personal experience, together composing a collage which depicts a world where food is more than just sustenance (that said, elements of the text & design date this as an artifact of the mid-90s; I would love to read an updated anniversary edition).