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65 reviews

Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver by Mary Oliver

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challenging emotional hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective medium-paced

4.75

Dream Work by Mary Oliver

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emotional hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective relaxing medium-paced

5.0

The Girl with the Make-Believe Husband by Julia Quinn

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adventurous funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted relaxing fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas by Virginia Woolf

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challenging informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

3.75

Dubliners by James Joyce

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adventurous informative reflective slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? N/A
  • Strong character development? N/A
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

3.25

It mirrored so much of my Catholic upbringing, the realism was on point but it was so dry. I was expecting a laugh or two. Inspired not even a snort.
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

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

5.0

This novel could only have been written by someone who saw this ugly, doomed, yet precious world for what it was and did not, even for a moment, look away or flinch. Toni Morrison is a prophet, and through her we have access to the descriptions of our humanity.
Grand Union: Stories by Zadie Smith

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funny informative reflective medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? N/A
  • Strong character development? N/A
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

3.25

After You'd Gone by Maggie O'Farrell

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emotional mysterious reflective sad fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

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The History of the World in Bite-Sized Chunks by Emma Marriott

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hopeful informative inspiring fast-paced

4.25

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

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adventurous emotional funny hopeful reflective sad medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.5