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No Place to Bury the Dead by Karina Sainz Borgo

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adventurous dark emotional reflective 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? It's complicated

3.0

Transitions: Our Stories of Being Trans by Edward Whelan, Harry Mizumoto, Danielle Hopkins, T.C. Oakes-Monger, Den Casey, Kole Fulmine, Ezra Woodger, Kirrin Medcalf

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emotional hopeful reflective fast-paced

3.25

solid but too short
The Lamb by Lucy Rose

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challenging dark reflective sad slow-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? Yes

2.0

Started strong with a promise of cannibal family and queer coming of age but couldn't land it
A Council of Dolls by Mona Susan Power

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dark emotional hopeful reflective 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? It's complicated

3.75

I loved three quarters of the book. The individual stories were effective and touching, clearly showing the through line of trauma and hurt.

Which is why the last section let it down. It rehashed all the former sections, explaining in direct therapy language why everyone did what they did, and really took the power out. 
The Communist Manifesto/The April Theses: A Revolutionary Edition by Vladimir Lenin, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels

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challenging informative inspiring medium-paced

4.5

These Violent Delights by Micah Nemerever

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

5.0

Incredible. Nauseating and anxiety sparking, full of emotional truth, beautifully written
Burning Grass by Cyprian Ekwensi

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adventurous challenging emotional mysterious reflective slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

A beautiful little book. 
Rebel Blade by Davinia Evans

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adventurous emotional tense fast-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? It's complicated

3.75

satisfying end to a series I've liked a lot
Eroticism by Mary Dalwood, Georges Bataille

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challenging informative reflective slow-paced

3.75

very of its time, many of the assumptions the thesis is built on have since been disproved and reconsidered. But an interesting read nonetheless.
The Constant Rabbit by Jasper Fforde

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funny reflective 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? It's complicated

3.0

when it's good it's very good, when it's bad it's annoying.