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134 reviews

Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih, الطيب صالح

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

4.25

I want to take my rightful share of life by force, I want to give lavishly, I want love to flow from my heart, to ripen and bear fruit. There are many horizons that must be visited, fruit that must be plucked, books read, and white pages in the scrolls of life to be inscribed with vivid sentences in a bold hand.
The Wild Robot by Peter Brown

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adventurous lighthearted 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? Yes

2.75

The robot’s programming stopped her from being violent, but nothing stopped her from being annoying.

This was cute but story wise the movie has so much more soul and heart than the book, one of the few times I can confidently say the movie is better.
Language Unlimited: The Science Behind Our Most Creative Power by David Adger

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informative medium-paced

3.0

A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid

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informative reflective fast-paced

4.25

Even if I really came from people who were behaving like monkeys in trees, it was better to be that than what happened to me, what I became after I met you.
The Raven King by Maggie Stiefvater

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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? Yes

4.0

He was a book, and he was holding his final pages, and he wanted to get to the end to find out how it went, and he didn’t want it to be over.
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys

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

4.0

You can pretend for a long time, but one day it all falls away and you are alone. 
The Lonely Londoners by Sam Selvon

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reflective medium-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

3.75

As if the boys laughing, but they only laughing because they fraid to cry, they only laughing because to think so much about everything would be a big calamity - like how he here now, the thoughts so heavy like he unable to move his body.
The Language Hoax: Why the World Looks the Same in Any Language by John McWhorter

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informative medium-paced

3.5

The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper by Hallie Rubenhold

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dark informative sad medium-paced

4.25

At its very core, the story of Jack the Ripper, is a narrative of a killer’s deep, abiding hatred of women, and our cultural obsession with the mythology only serves to normalize its particular brand of misogyny.
Good Country People by Flannery O'Connor

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

2.0