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Wonder - R J Palacio
SO HEARTWARMING, this. I mean, heart-wrenching also. But I'm finished it, not right in the middle, so my cockles are toasty.Me rnAugust has severe craniofacial abnormalities. 'Whatever you're thinking,...
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Only Ever Yours - Louise O'Neill
This was fine! There's a particular genre of dystopia, easy-reading feminist lit about women as commodities, Handmaid's Tale-lite, and you keep reading them because they're fun and fast and every once...
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Cruel Beauty - Rosamund Hodge
This was WAAAAAY better than I expected. I have been burned off of fairy tale retellings completely because they are almost universally lame, just like modernized or the names are changed or whatever,...
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Princess Academy - Shannon Hale
IIIIIIIII don't even care. I'm starting to think that Shannon Hale is maybe just not my patronus, because this wasn't BAD but I'm so shruggy about it. I thought it was going to be really WASPy but it's...
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Space Dumplins - Craig Thompson
Ha ha, yessssssssssss, so much great stuff is happening in comics in terms of tiny bitches doin shit. By the time Eleanor can read on her own, I'mma be like, THE LIBRARY IS YOUR OYSTER.Basically.Violet...
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The Book of Phoenix - Nnedi Okorafor
Yes, good, ok. I wanted something else by Okorafor but my library didn't have it, so I picked one of her older titles at random and IT WAS V GOOD.It's The Future and Things Are Different (yesssss) and...
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More Happy Than Not - Adam Silvera
Hooooooooly shit.Breathe. I wasn't super into this book to start, because reading about teenage dudes is not my birthday party, but then I ran out of other things to read so here we are. And the first...
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Her - Harriet Lane
HA HA OMG THIS BOOK. Oh lordy. Oh man.Oh goodness. Oh jeez.Ok, regroup. Nina sees Emma in a town square, and she's like, I'm sure it was her, though we're much older now etc etc and then she starts...
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The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl Vol 1: Squirrel Power - Ryan North
EVERYTHING IS AMAZING. Comics are killing me right now. I'm going to read this to Eleanor when she wakes up, and she is going to love it.Doreen is a human-squirrel with the body of a human and the...
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Crazy Rich Asians - Kevin Kwan
Are these Asians crazy rich? Or is it that these rich Asians are crazy? KIND OF BOTH.Buncha Asians are crazy rich, like buy-a-hotel-because-the-concierge-insulted-your-wife-and-you-want-to-fire-him...
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The Buried Giant - Kazuo Ishiguro
Are you going to get foreboding, dramatically compelling Ishiguro like in Never Let Me Go? Or is it going to be boring, dreary Ishiguro like in Nocturnes? Or will it be me probably remembering Ishiguro...
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Tiny Pretty Things - Dhonielle Clayton and Sona Charaipotra
This was the boringest ballerina-based revenge plot of my life. HNGHHHHHHH IT JUST WENT ON AND ON FOREVVVVER. It's like 6000 pages long, and the same boring shit keeps happening. Someone is jealous of...
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The Walls Around Us - Nova Ren Suma
THIS is the ballerina-based revenge novel I have spent my life not knowing I needed. OMG THIS WAS SO GOOD. I don't even know what to say except like bwarrrrr killer ballerinas and ghosts and shit i...
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Gone, Baby, Gone - Denis Lehane
THIS WAS A HUGE DOWNER OMG.UGH I FEEL YOU GEORGE MICHAELIf you're not in the mood to read a story about child-kidnapping that ends depressingly for FUCKING EVERYONE, maybe steer clear. I'm so bummed...
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Astonish Me - Maggie Shipshead
Been reading a lot of ballet novels lately, I dunno what's up. This was a surprisingly prosaic little novel about ballet and betrayal and cutthroatedness and it did not, as they say, astonish me (omg...
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An Ember in the Ashes - Sabaa Tahir
Ughhhhhhhh this book. I don't hate romance in books, but I EXTRA HATE when a pretty good premise - young girl's brother is captured by guards, and in order to secure the aid of The Resistance in...
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House of Havoc: How to Make - and Keep - a Beautiful Home Despite Cheap...
Dis. Bish.I was librarygooglesearching for a book someone else recommended to me and this came up in the listing, and I was like Hullo I have a spouse and some kids and my house is havoc, this is...
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Imaginary Girls - Nova Ren Suma
HAHHAHAHHAHA remember when all book covers looked like this?2011 was a weird year for girls on book covers.ANYWAY. I dunno. I think I read this and The Walls Around Us too close together, because they...
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Carry On, Warrior - Glennon Doyle Melton
This is the kind of living your best, most honest, most vulnerable, most connected life-type memoir I can get behind. PEOPLE SAYING TRUE SHIT ABOUT STUFF and also about being generous and gentle with...
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Jane Steele - Lyndsay Faye
A loose retelling of Jane Eyre except she kills a lot of people (she's not, like, a swift-handed crimestress, which is what I had sort of been led to believe. She's just a woman who finds herself in...
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