Tag: literary-fiction
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Piglet Review — Lottie Hazell
Book Review — Lottie Hazell This is the kind of book I want to exist. I wanted to love it. I didn’t. Piglet covers a lot of ground — self-discovery, class systems, sexism, ambition, purpose — and it does all of it through the lens of an eating disorder. The main character copes through binge…
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Loved One Book Review — Aisha Muharrar
Book Review — Aisha Muharrar From the rave reviews I’d seen online I expected something that would hit harder. It didn’t, at least not immediately. The first half of this book went over my head — which, lately, seems to be a trend. I’ve been sitting with why, and I think I landed on an…
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Remarkably Bright Creatures Book Review — Shelby Van Pelt
Book Review — Shelby Van Pelt I was sitting at Eagle Harbor Book Co. on Bainbridge Island, reading this book, when a staff member told me the author was speaking at Elliott Bay. Of course I went. That’s how I found out Shelby Van Pelt is from the Pacific Northwest — and that Remarkably Bright…
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Wild Dark Shore Book Review — Charlotte McConaghy
Book Review — Charlotte McConaghy I picked this up on a whim from my library’s new releases shelf. The Goodreads reviews were promising — around 4 stars — and the plot sounded compelling enough. I wanted to like it. I really did. Wild Dark Shore reads like two separate books, and that’s both its strength…
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Heart the Lover Book Review — Lily King
Book Review — Lily King I went into this book thinking it would be a light romance I could easily blow through. I was wrong. The first 100 pages of Heart the Lover went in one eye and out the other. To be fair, work was consuming my life at the time and the only…
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A Guardian and a Thief Book Review — Megha Majumdar
Book Review — Megha Majumdar One of the most well written books I’ve read in recent memory — and I almost missed it entirely. A Guardian and a Thief is a simple story on the surface. But everything in it is written with such care that you feel the weight of every sentence. Megha Majumdar…
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Madonna in a Fur Coat Review – Sabahattin Ali
Book Review — Sabahattin Ali I discovered this book the way so many others do — BookTok. I knew almost nothing about the plot, which turned out to be the right way in. It’s 1920s Berlin. A young Turkish man named Raif arrives to learn a trade (soap-making, of all things) and falls into a…
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