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What You Are Looking For is in the Library by Michiko Aoyama

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hopeful reflective relaxing fast-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

3.75

I really enjoyed this cozy book, I thought the characters were cute and the short stories were very sweet. 

A real "everything turns out okay in the end" book. 

I would say this is the perfect kind of book for evening under a blanket with a cup of tea. 
Together by Julie Cohen

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

2.0

ew. It's literally about incest. THEY ARE BROTHER AND SISTER. 


I liked Emily and Robbie's story until I found out the twist.

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Swing Time by Zadie Smith

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emotional reflective sad 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

Solid Zadie Smith.

If you've read any of her other books and like them, this is going to be right up your street. 

Two girls, their relationship to dance, each other and how their choices push them through the world, and have them end in totally different spaces. 

Its also a love story to dance and musicals and music. 
Harmony by Carolyn Parkhurst

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

4.0

This was an excellent book about a family struggling with a autism diagnosis and how one child can effect the other.

How families through love can end up in risky situations! 

How people you think you trust turn out to be not good people, and how you can over come and bloom despite the mistakes. 

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Mrs England by Stacey Halls

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

3.5

This was an easy read, not my normal genre so hard to say if it's best in class.

I think Ruby May was a little naive and I also felt that as someone who was purportedly a fast learner she took a long time to work out that Mr England was a bit of a dick. 

Also what was that weird bit with him making her put him to bed. Creepy. 

A bit scatty in parts, like the author wasn't sure who the focus was, but easy to read and entertaining in the most part. 
Hold by Michael Donkor

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emotional sad 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? No

3.0

I wasn't sure where it was going and honestly I don't think the author did either. But I enjoyed it, as far as you can with a book with a messy sense of direction and that has super hard and sad subject matter. 

Its complicated, I liked this, but I did not find it uplifting.

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Taste: My Life Through Food by Stanley Tucci

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emotional funny inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

I loved Stanley before this, and now I'm really hungry and want to go round his for pasta! 

What a charming and kind man, who has been through a lot but also who remained positive throughout. 

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The Queen's Gambit by Walter Tevis

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

4.0

Solid book, I downloaded the audio book as I loved the series, it was good.

I think a lot of the key points are covered, I am glad I listened to this as I think I would have got bogged down in chess moves if I was reading it. 

Pace of the audio book was good and overall had a good time with it. 

Elizabeth harmon is a lot less fierce in the book, and I think I liked her more for it, she felt more real. 

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No One Round Here Reads Tolstoy by Mark Hodkinson

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Did not finish book. Stopped at 15%.
My loan ran out and I wasnt enjoying the ebook format on borrow box. 
To Paradise by Hanya Yanagihara

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dark emotional sad 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

5.0

This was a tome. In parts I felt like it would never end, however I could not put this book down.

I just want to chat to someone about it.