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214 reviews

Macbeth by William Shakespeare

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adventurous challenging mysterious tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel

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emotional funny lighthearted mysterious fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.75

 i love stories celebrating love through food and tradition but THIS WAS WACKKK
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

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

4.75

one of the few classics i’ve enjoyed!! a cool mix of sci fi and historical
Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema by Laura Mulvey

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informative medium-paced

4.0

laura mulvey was so real for this 🙌🏼 however I felt like her academic writing style was abnormally hard to read and inaccesible to the average reader
The Stranger by Albert Camus

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adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

First Person Singular by Haruki Murakami

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adventurous hopeful mysterious reflective fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.5

this was kind of a snoozefest…

rating of each story:
cream- pointless 1.5/5
on a stone pillow- it was ok.. 2/5
charlie parker plays bossa nova- jazzy 3.5/5
with the beatles- nice 3.25/5
confessions of a shinagawa monkey- 🙉 4/5
carnaval- wild ride 3/5
the yakult swallows poetry collection- it’s about baseball idgaf 0.5/5
first person singular-my fave, 4.5/5
The Applicant by Nazlı Koca

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adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

literally me in a parallel universe 😻
Pet by Akwaeke Emezi

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challenging emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious tense fast-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

The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea by Yukio Mishima

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challenging dark mysterious sad tense 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

3.75

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Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair by Cristina García, W.S. Merwin, Pablo Neruda

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Did not finish book. Stopped at 50%.
i've really wanted to read more of Pablo Neruda's poetry after reading "Tonight I Write (The Saddest Lines) which was gorgelicious, but not many of his other poems hit the same for me :( I the book is written in both Spanish and English, and though my Spanish is elementary  I felt like the translation lacked. the only other poem I feel I loved was "The Stolen Branch"