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Freefall by Jessica Barry

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

3.5

Trinity by Louisa Hall

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

5.0

Amazing use of quotidien experience and every day life to explore heady issues of war, politics and human existence 
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

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  • Plot- or character-driven? Character

3.25

Was kinda bored at first. But then it got interesting and ended strong.
The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese

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hopeful inspiring reflective 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? It's complicated

4.0

The Lost Heart of Asia by Colin Thubron

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5.0

I read this book as I was traveling to Kyrgyzstan. It's great. It made me want to visit the great cities of Samarkand and Bhukara though. I was sad I was not going there...
Chasing the Sea: Lost Among the Ghosts of Empire in Central Asia by Tom Bissell

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5.0

The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia by Peter Hopkirk

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4.0

Swashbucking adventure in Central Asia. And it's all real history! From the Pashtuns to the Mongols, from the British to the Czar. This book is a traveler's adventure.
The Vagabond by Colette

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3.0

I really like Collette's writing in this book. It has received some negative reviews for an awkward translation, but I like it. It's very evocative of the narrator's personality.

Great book for getting a feel for what life as a woman in the underbelly of Paris was like in the early 20th century.
The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien

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Did not finish book.

1.0

no
China: Fragile Superpower: How China's Internal Politics Could Derail Its Peaceful Rise by Susan L. Shirk

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5.0

Excellent, easy to read. Great intro to China