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Othello by William Shakespeare
dark
medium-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? Yes
5.0
O, beware, my lord, of jealousy: it is the green-eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on.
Good Omens by Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett
Did not finish book. Stopped at 15%.
Did not finish book. Stopped at 15%.
Loved what I read but it’s not the mood right now
Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
reflective
medium-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
2.0
Turn Up the Ocean: Poems by Tony Hoagland
reflective
medium-paced
4.0
While I’m lying there naked, flat on my back,
I hope I remember all that I went through —
the storms and the lovers and the mountains;
complaining at the top of my lungs;
salting my grief with my mirth
while being tossed this way and that, askew and asunder,
in this blithering whirlwind of wonder.
Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare
dark
funny
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.
The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
dark
reflective
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
Being able to read and write did not provide the answers to all questions. It led to other questions, and then to others.
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
dark
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.
The New Atlantis by Ursula K. Le Guin
reflective
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.0
It was dark for so long, so very long. We were all blind. And there was the cold, a vast, unmoving, heavy cold. We could not move at all. We did not move. We did not speak. Our mouths were closed, pressed shut by the cold and by the weight. Our eyes were pressed shut. Our limbs were held still. Our minds were held still. For how long? There was no length of time; how long is death? And is one dead only after living, or before life as well? Certainly we thought, if we thought anything, that we were dead; but if we had ever been alive, we had forgotten it.
Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh
adventurous
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? No
4.0
Are not all appearances deceptive in the end? Whatever there is within us - whether good, or bad, or neither - its existence will continue uninterrupted, will it not, no matter what the drape of our clothes, or the colour of our skin? What if it is the world that is a duperie, Mr Reid, and we the exceptions to its lies?
Sultana's Dream by Roquia Sakhawat Hussain
reflective
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.0
Where are the men?' I asked her.
'In their proper places, where they ought to be.'
'Pray let me know what you mean by "their proper places".'
'O, I see my mistake, you cannot know our customs, as you were never here before. We shut our men indoors.'