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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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Review: A Monster Calls - Patrick Ness
Genre: Fiction / Young Adult Published: Walker Books, may 2011 Rating: 5/5 stars, all-time favorite “Don't think you haven't lived long...
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Review: The Essex Serpent - Sarah Perry
4 out of 5 stars “Not even knowledge takes all the strangeness from the world” The Essex Serpent is one of those cases where I wanted to...
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Review: The Immortalists - Chloe Benjamin
Genre: Literary Fiction Published: GP Putnams Publishing, Jan. 2018 My rating: 3.5 stars “The power of words. They weaseled under door...
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Review: Autumn - Ali Smith
Genre: literary fiction Published: Hamish Hamilton, october 2016 My rating: 3/5 stars “Language is like poppies. It just takes something...
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Review: Everything Under - Daisy Johnson
Genre: Literary Fiction Published: Jonathan Cape, july 2018 My rating: 5 stars "There are more beginnings than there are ends to contain...
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Review: Eleanor - Jason Gurley
Genre: Fiction/Magical Realism Published: Harper Voyager, march 2016 My rating: 4 stars Rating: 4 stars "Time is a river, and it flows in...
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