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355 reviews

Amanat: Women's Writing from Kazakhstan by Shelley Fairweather-Vega, Zaure Batayeva

3.75

I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki by Baek Se-hee

reflective

3.5

Time is a Mother by Ocean Vuong

4.5

künstlerroman will stay with me for a while, as other ocean vuong poems have. and reading this actually made me go reread someday i'll love ocean vuong which remains one of THE poems ever for me. i hope he does love ocean vuong now or will someday, but i sure do and always have.

"then it came to me, my life. i remembered my life the way an ax handle, mid-swing, remembers the tree.

& i was free."

Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin

4.25

Conversazione in Sicilia by Elio Vittorini

4.0

The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones

4.5

The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle

4.5

When All is Said by Anne Griffin

emotional reflective

• Plot- or character-driven? Character

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Physical abuse and Suicide

Graceling by Kristin Cashore
Did not finish book. Stopped at 21%.

i'll come back to it later on!

Emergency Skin by N.K. Jemisin

challenging hopeful reflective fast-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5