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38 reviews

Just Ash by Sol Santana

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emotional 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

binged this in one night. wasn't the biggest fan at first but then i couldn't put it down:)

Anthem by Ayn Rand

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1.0

i hate you ayn rand

The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

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fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

[review copied over from my old goodreads]
i started this book unsure what to expect, with no knowledge about it other than that it was very popular and that the lady at the thrift store where i bought it said it was a very good book. i related to charlie really heavily throughout and overall just felt really connected to all the characters.
charlie’s relationships with, well, everyone in this book, are so interesting to me. the way he interacts with sam, with patrick, with mary elizabeth, with his siblings, with his parents, with the unknown person he writes these letters to. it all felt so real in a dizzying sort of way.
and the end, oh the end. i don’t want to say too much in fear of spoiling anything, but… wow!
i enjoyed this book more than i expected to.

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

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dark emotional sad medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? Yes

4.75

this book had me in pieces

White Oleander by Janet Fitch

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dark medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated

4.25

fantastic diction and storytelling

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Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg

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emotional medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

[review copied over from my old goodreads]

I don’t even know how to start this review, if I’m being honest.

Stone Butch Blues is the most powerful book I’ve read… possibly ever. Feinberg’s storytelling is compelling and so, so real, and I didn’t spend a chapter of this book feeling as if my time wasn’t being spent in good use. Jess is such a strong character, and the story of her, and of butches as a whole, is incredibly well told in this novel.

We learn who Jess is alongside her as she learns it herself, bouncing from gay bars to blue-collar jobs to the messy living spaces in between, her understanding of herself and the world around her changing with time and experience and each new person she meets.

It’d be difficult to emerge from reading this without a renewed sense of appreciation for butches, for transsexuals, for anyone who exists outside the norm. It’s a story about gender as much as it is transness, and it left me thinking one word: wow.

A must-read, in my eyes.

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