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26 reviews

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures by Anne Fadiman

dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad tense slow-paced

3.5

Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy

dark emotional funny hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

4.75

Such an amazing amazing memoir. Impossible to put down. Jeanette is such a great writer and perfectly captures such complex emotions and relationships. I 100% recommend this book!!! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, and Death of parent

Just for the Summer by Abby Jimenez

emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

Wow… Read this if you’re a real yearner- a lover of a slow romantic burn. Lovable main characters, super sweet romance, funny banter, super crazy chemistry. I BREEZED through this book because of how phenomenal and natural the story telling is written. I just witnessed true true love. Passionate and silly and gentle and unstoppable.  Read this is you wanna up your standards for your dream man by a little or a lot LOL… Great book for getting into romance. My heart was skipping a beat every other chapter. Esp at the ending. 

How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu

adventurous emotional funny inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

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

3.75

What an fun and original read. Advice- don’t take the logistics of this story too seriously. I enjoyed it more after starting to read it for the experience of cosmic time-space weirdness! The second 4th of the book gets pretty slow because world building is super heavy and repetitive through certain descriptions. Then it suddenly feels like a complete turn around into something unexpected and it kind of annoyed me because what and how !!?? But wow does it all pull everything together for me in a lot of unexpected ways… Although there’s so much repetitive rambling (because it is an internal monologue) I realized that it’s deeply reflective and relatable in a lot of painfully truthful ways. Hilarious and thoughtful, this book. Trippy and bittersweet as well. Lots of flowery language about very technical terms and concepts. Explores ideas of regrets, family, isolation, etc. Sounds sad, but I think there are still so many wholesome moments.  I think it explored the super complex relationships and feelings between parent and child well too.

Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt

emotional funny hopeful reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

So charming, witty, and sweet. A tender story about family and closure after loss. Loved the octopus POV. Loved Marcellus. Hints of Mystery and Romance. Listen to the audiobook on YouTube while reading esp for Marcellus POV chapters. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, and Drug use