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Review: The Extremities - Samantha Kimmey
Genre: Literary Fiction, Disability/Illness Published: October 2025 My Rating: 2/5 stars ‘I was fearful of disturbing it, like the disorder was some animal that would go berserk if it realised it was confined in the cage of my body.’ One day at work, a young newspaper reporter is suddenly struck with a mysterious pain in her hands that renders her unable to type. A string of doctors offer her a string of diagnoses, ranging from carpal tunnel, to arthritis, to her body’s way o

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Review: The Unmapping - Denise S. Robbins
Genre: Literary Fiction, Sci-fi/Speculative Fiction Published: Bindery Books, June 2025 My Rating: 3/5 stars The Unmapping was one of...

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Review: The Echoes - Evie Wyld
Genre: Literary Fiction Published: J onathan Cape, August 2024 My Rating: 4/5 stars "The Echoes. His parents thought it was a good name...

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Review: We'll Prescribe You a Cat - Syou Ishida
Genre: Cozy Fiction, Magical Realism Published: Doubleday, September 2024, originally published March 2023 My Rating: 1/5 stars “The...

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Review: Once for Yes - Allie Millington
Genre : middle-grade, magical realism. Published: Feiwel & Friends, March 2025 My Rating: 4.5/5 stars "Surprisingly, it was the pigeons...

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Review: The Labors of Hercules Beal - Gary D. Schmidt
Genre: Middle-grade, contemporary Published: Clarion Books, May 2023 My Rating: 5/5 stars “We are here to help you carry the sky when you...

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Review: Briefjes voor Pelle - Marlies Slegers (Dutch Only)
Genre: kinderboek (vanaf ca 10 jaar) Publicatie: Luitingh-Sijthoff, September 2020 Sterwaardering: 4/5 sterren "'Kon ik het verdriet...

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Review: An Earthquake is a Shaking of the Surface of the Earth - Anna Moschovakis
Genre: literary fiction Published: Soft Skull Press, November 2024 My Rating: 1.5/5 stars “They say that walking is controlled falling,...

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Review: Leafskin - Miranda Schmidt
Genre: Magical Realism Published: Stillhouse Press, March 2025 My Rating: 2.5/5 stars, rounded down "Jo moves through a world that is...

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Review: I Want to Go Home but I’m Already There - Róisín Lanigan
Genre: Literary Fiction Published: Penguin Press/Fig Tree, March 2025 My Rating: 3/5 stars “Bless me, Father, for I have sinned. It’s...

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Out on a Limb - Hannah Bonam-Young
Genre: Romance Published: Independently published by the author, July 2023 My Rating: 4.5/5 stars “It’s so much easier to communicate...

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Voice like a Hyacinth - Mallory Pearson
Genre: dark academia, horror Published: 47North Publishing, January 2025 My Rating: 4/5 stars “I was terrified of the possibility: how...

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Review: The Night Guest - Hildur Knútsdóttir
Genre: horror novella Published: Tor Nightfire, September 2024 (originally published in Icelandic by JPV, 2021) My Rating: 3.5/5...

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Review: Playground - Richard Powers
Genre: Literary Fiction, Eco-fiction Published: W. W. Norton & Company, September 2024 My Rating: 2.5/5 stars “The world was bigger,...

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Review: Lonely Places - Kate Anderson
Genre: Young Adult Horror, Contemporary Published: North Star, October 2024 My Rating: 4.5/5 stars "The bones had grown into the roots...

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Review: Small Rain - Garth Greenwell
Genre: Literary Fiction Published: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, September 2024 My Rating: 4.5/5 stars rounded up “Try to remember this, I...

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Review: Small Ghost - Trista Mateer
Genre: Poetry Published: Central Avenue Poetry, September 2024 My Rating: 4/5 stars <i>” it's strange all the things you forget about...

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Review: We Were Pretending - Hannah Gersen
Genre: Literary/Contemporary Fiction Published: Little A Publishing, August 2024 My Rating: 2/5 stars We Were Pretending is the...

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Review: We Carry the Sea in Our Hands - Janie Kim
Genre: Literary Fiction Published: Alcove Press, July 9th 2024 My Rating: 5/5 stars "I have two lab notebooks. The regular one is for...

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Review: Breaking into Sunlight - John Cochran
Genre: Middle-grade contemporary Published: Algonquin Press for Young Readers, June 2024 My Rating: 4/5 stars In the category of...

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