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In need of a good cry?

Craving Korean cuisine?

Looking for an excuse to tell your mom you love her?

This is the book for you!

Zauner’s writing style is natural and friendly, drawing you in from the beginning with detailed descriptions of decadent foods and relatable adolescent lessons. The emotional swell is gradual and tender, but doesn’t hurt any less. I send her love.

9/10

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Ross succeeds at bringing to life majestic scenery of folkloric Scottish highlands. The world building and story pacing are what sets this novel apart, but I’m not sure I will return to the isle for A Fire Endless.

6/10

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Celeste Ng’s style of writing feels so effortless that if it weren’t for the grief and dread blanketing the pages, I would easily call this a One Day Read. Her tragically hopeful ending knocked the wind out of me. This is far sadder and deeper than Little Fires Everywhere, in my opinion.

8/10

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A novel about imperialism, racism, and ancient Peruvian culture slowly morphs into a magical world of walking statues, glowing pollen trails, and a queer love story through generations. I look forward to reading Pulley’s The Watchmaker of Filigree Street.

7.5/10

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"This book made me insane" I say as if I was sane before

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Whalefall

To sink a behemoth,

      Displacing gallons of incomprehensible measurement,

              Feeding villages into civilizations on blubber and marrow.

To bequeath a legacy,

     Of decade filled descendants and ecosystem genesis,

             Generations uncountable of hagfish and plankton

To birth a lineage, 

      Evolutionary fractals of kinetic biodiversification, 

             Footprinting beyond fossil record where blue bleeds abyssal

To submerge an ascension,

      Where rising demiurge grasps reflection in fraying corpse-fat, 

             Haloed by bacterial mats and winged in polychaeta.

To conclude a promise,

     Life renewed in matching exchange of a single lived,

           Archimedean overflow flushing Lethe’s tidal shallows in rebirth

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What books have you done this to?

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Welp, I was obsessed from the start. Weir meticulously builds this curious little friendship out of heartfelt gestures, laugh out loud offhanded remarks, and out of a shared love for something I never thought I would grasp enough to appreciate- rocket science.

If you haven’t read Project Hail Mary, read it and then spend the rest of your life yearning to read it again for the very first time.

10/10

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Miller’s writing style of dense mythology took a few chapters for me to grasp, but quickly became second nature, as light and effortless as a present day novel. Genuinely beautiful ending. I haven’t read Song of Achilles yet, which feels like a crime.

9/10

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Murata writes a sad reality of abused outliers surrendering to fantasy. I entered this novel ecstatic about the potential of alien hedgehog plushies but all I was left with was trauma.

7/10