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Review: White is for Witching - Helen Oyeyemi
Genre: Literary Fiction, Gothic Horror Published: Picador, June 2009 My Rating: 2/5 stars “ Please tell a story about a girl who gets...
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Review: Ghost Wall - Sarah Moss
Genre: Literary Fiction Published: Granta Books, September 2018 My Rating: 4/5 stars “I shivered. Of course, that was the whole point of...
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Review: Land Mammals and Sea Creatures - Jen Neale
Genre: Literary fiction Publised: ECW Press, May 2018 My rating: 2/5 stars “Selfdestruction can be a lot of things. Sad, devastating,...
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Review: The Glass Woman - Caroline Lea
Genre: Literary Fiction Published: Michael Joseph, February 2019 My rating: 4.5/5 stars Iceland, 1686. Rosa, a village girl from an...
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Review: Halibut on the Moon - David Vann
Genre: Literary Fiction Published: Grove Press, March 2019 My Rating: 5/5 stars Halibut on the Moon was among my most anticipated novels...
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Review: The Age of Miracles - Karen Thompson Walker
Genre: Apocalyptic, Fiction Published: Random House, 2012 My Rating: 3/5 stars “How much sweeter life would be if it all happened in...
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Review: All the Birds, Singing - Evie Wyld
Genre: literary fiction Published: Vintage publishing, May 2014 My Rating: 3.5/5 stars Birds Singing, Everywhere by Evie Wyld is a case...
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Review: The Book of Strange New Things - Michel Faber
Genre: Fiction/Science-fiction Published: October 2014 My Rating: 5/5 stars “The world changes too fast. You take your eyes off something...
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Post Mortem: The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
Genre: Literary fiction Published: Harper Collins, first published 1988 My Rating: 1/5 stars CAUSE OF DEATH: Multimorbidity (a.k.a.:...
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Review: Ariel - Sylvia Plath
Genre: poetry Published: Faber and Faber, 2010 originally published 1965 My rating: 5/5 stars, all-time favorite "I know the bottom, she...
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Review: The Sunlight Pilgrims - Jenni Fagan
Genre: Literary Fiction, dystopian Published: William Heinemann, march 2016 My Rating: 3.5/5 stars The simplest way of describing my...
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Review: Future Home of the Living God - Louise Erdrich
Genre: Literary Fiction, Dystopian Published: HarperCollins, November 2017 My Rating: 2.5/5 stars “We are so brief. A one-day dandelion....
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Review: Salt to the Sea - Ruta Sepetys
Genre: Historical Fiction (Young Adult) Published: Philomel Books , February 2016 My Rating: 4/5 stars "War had bled color from...
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Review: The Lightkeepers - Abby Geni
Genre: Literary Fiction Published: Counterpoint, january 2017 My Rating: 5/5 stars There is something utterly terrifying, yet strangely...
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Review: The Tidal Zone - Sarah Moss
Genre: Literary fiction Published: Granta, July 2016 My Rating: 5/5 stars All-time favorite “Suddenly, you will stop, you and me and all...
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Review: Cove - Cynan Jones
Genre: Literary fiction, novella Published: Granta Books, november 2016 My Rating: 2/5 stars It does not matter who are. You know what...
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Examination: Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
Genre: literary fiction Published: Vintage books 2010, first published March 2005 My rating: 5/5 stars All-time favorite “What I'm not...
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Gush: Aquarium - David Vann
Genre: Literary Fiction Published: Atlantic Monthly Press, March 2015 My rating: 5/5 stars This review contains spoilers later on “Each...
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Review: Melmoth - Sarah Perry
Genre: Literary Fiction Published: Serpentstail, October 2018 My rating: 4/5 stars Set against the darkly atmospheric décor of the city...
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Review: Folk - Zoe Gilbert
Genre: literary fiction / short stories Published: Bloomsbury, february 2018 My rating: 2/5 stars How to describe Folk…? Not only is that...
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