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You Made a Fool of Death With Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi

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emotional funny fast-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? It's complicated

5.0

Every time I read another of Emezi's works I worry that I'll have anything less than an incredible magical reading experience like an IDIOT, and every single time... they never fail to deliver. WILL EMEZI EVER WRITE A LESS THAN 5 STAR BOOK? IT'S LOOKING PRETTY FUCKING UNLIKELY
Love in Colour: Mythical Tales from Around the World, Retold by Bolu Babalola

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emotional funny lighthearted fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? N/A
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.5

Vaguely disappointed in the amount of hetero in this, but otherwise LOVED the retellings of myths and folklore. Mythology and love!!!! But made not violent and misogynistic!!!! More about woman's bodily autonomy!!!!  More of this please!!!!!!
Francesca Woodman: On Being an Angel by Daniel Birnbaum, Anna Tellgren, Francesca Woodman

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fast-paced

4.25

The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin

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adventurous slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? N/A
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

Passing by Nella Larsen

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challenging emotional reflective fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

Francesca Woodman: Portrait of a Reputation by Drew Sawyer, Nora Burnett Abrams

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fast-paced

4.0

Women Don't Owe You Pretty by Florence Given

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slow-paced

3.0

One of my friends described this to me as a book that could have been a series of tweets and it’s hard to disagree. It’s a very pretty book though, and I am a sucker for colourful books. 
To Paradise by Hanya Yanagihara

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dark emotional slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

Woof. I mean. Am I desensitised to Yanagihara’s brand of guilt and shame and agony and pain porn or am I desensitised to the experience of a global pandemic and governments absolute lack of care other than their own profit and power? Hard to say. 
Book II was not as strong as the others and almost didn’t? Need to be included? Not sure how I feel about the end being so… open. Normally this fucker comes for me with a fucking lemon juice glazed machete with her writing but the ending was more like, a disposable wooden spoon: I guess it functions but where’s the drama?? Where’s the usual cut throat maniacal moral conundrum??? 
Still. Pls don’t accidentally predict any more massive historical future events, thanks. 
Alison Watt: A Portrait Without Likeness: A Conversation with the Art of Allan Ramsay by Julie Lawson, Andrew O'Hagan, Tom Normand

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fast-paced

4.0

Content Warning: Everything by Akwaeke Emezi

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emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0