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How to Say Babylon by Safiya Sinclair

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emotional hopeful inspiring reflective tense medium-paced

3.75

The Underworld: Journeys to the Depths of the Ocean by Susan Casey

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adventurous challenging hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted mysterious reflective medium-paced

5.0

This book glistens in waves.

Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution by Cat Bohannon

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hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective medium-paced

5.0

A favorite book of mine!

The House on Via Gemito by Domenico Starnone

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Did not finish book. Stopped at 23%.

Text is t gripping me. Was reading along for the Booker Prize, but I’ve lost interest.

Red Memory: The Afterlives of China's Cultural Revolution by Tania Branigan

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challenging dark hopeful informative reflective tense medium-paced

4.25

The Wren, the Wren by Anne Enright

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emotional hopeful lighthearted reflective sad medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

The Silver Bone by Andrey Kurkov

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adventurous dark hopeful mysterious tense 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? No

3.0

Some light kookiness, mixed with a heavy dose of suspicion.

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Crooked Plow by Itamar Vieira Junior

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dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Undiscovered by Gabriela Wiener

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informative mysterious reflective medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

Auto-fiction? I’m struggling to draw a connection between family heritage research & Wiener’s sex life:

I’ve cried so much over my father that I’m wet and ready to get rammed by an entire battalion.

Okay.

Lost on Me by Veronica Raimo

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hopeful lighthearted reflective medium-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? No

3.0

This was okay. Not entirely a fan of the narrative voice. It’s almost snobby? Idk. Hard to shake that this was a reflection looking to past vignettes from late 30s/early 40s(?), but has that petty childish/teen condescension that’s just not fitting. Like the narrative is trying to one-up the reader.