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62 reviews

The Enchanted Life: Unlocking the Magic of the Everyday by Sharon Blackie

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

Beautiful. Loads of positive outlooks and things to work on to make life better.

Such a Pretty Fat: One Narcissist's Quest to Discover If Her Life Makes Her Ass Look Big, or Why Pi E Is Not the Answer by Jen Lancaster

funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted fast-paced

5.0

Funny, inspiring, and honest. What's not to love!?

The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy

adventurous tense fast-paced

5.0

Unexpectedly adventurous and delightful! Loved every page!

Nature's Mutiny: How the Little Ice Age of the Long Seventeenth Century Transformed the West and Shaped the Present by Philipp Blom

informative inspiring medium-paced

5.0

A great history that, to me, inspires one to think about how civilization will find ways to adapt itself to changing environments and thrive in new ways once again.

Democracy by Joan Didion

emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

Chillingly beautiful. 
A "novel of fitful glimpses" of Vietnam, politics, and painful romance.

The Journey to the East by Hermann Hesse

mysterious fast-paced

2.0

Too bizarre for me. I felt like I was reading someone's dream. 

Kallocain by Karin Boye

dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

A dark and foreboding warning.
This is my second read of this novel and I'm only more afraid now.

Zorro by Isabel Allende

lighthearted fast-paced

3.0

A little predictable and silly but highly entertaining.

Orlando by Virginia Woolf

challenging emotional funny mysterious reflective medium-paced

5.0

Beautiful!

The Saga of the Volsungs: With the Saga of Ragnar Lothbrok by Jackson Crawford

adventurous dark mysterious fast-paced

4.0

So much death and bloody battles!