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Bad Weather Mammals: Poems by Ashley-Elizabeth Best

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dark emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

5.0

Beautiful heartwrenching gross and lovely poems!!!!!!!!!!
Heliotropia by MANAHIL. BANDUKWALA

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emotional hopeful medium-paced

5.0

Beautiful love poems!! My favourite thing. Made me cry. 
Recognising the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative by Isabella Hammad

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hopeful informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

Necessary for anyone who works in books/humanities and who want to believe in the "power of language."
Prairie Edge by Conor Kerr

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funny sad tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

If I could give this a 4.85 I would. It's better than a 4.75 but not quuuiiitteee a 5 star read for me. Still, a great book!!! Would recommend. Worth the hype. 
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Most of All the Wanting by Amanda Merpaw

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4.75

Keep by Jenny Haysom

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emotional reflective slow-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

4.5

This is a really beautiful, poetic novel about what the objects in our lives mean (or dont mean), and the value, and practice, of memory. A book that'll warm your heart and/or make you cry. 
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Paris: The Memoir by Paris Hilton

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dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

Fame is a trauma (on top of so many other traumas), and Paris Hilton is an icon 💟
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Hair for Men by Michelle Winters

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emotional fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

A weird, fun, beautiful very Canadian, very New Brunswick book about angry women hurt by men who are hurt by patriarchy - I eat that up. It did make me cry. There were really beautiful parts I wanted to last longer, and parts that felt kinda flat. I didnt like the ending.  
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Candelaria: A Novel by Melissa Lozada-Oliva

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

3.0

This book was weird. Zombie cult. But it's poetic and funny and about sisters reconnecting & I love that stuff. Inspired by a poem by MLO about an abuelita surviving the apocalypse. 
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Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein

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challenging informative inspiring medium-paced

5.0

This has to be required reading for everyone right now. Send this book to governments and policy maker while people are still being killed.