Book Reviews
Review of books I’ve read recently.
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Misery
Unnecessary Backstory (feel free to skip ahead): My first King novel was Needful Things, which was an assigned reading for me in undergrad. I was intrigued by the premise, but wasn’t too amazed by the execution. It didn’t have the same level of gore or fear or suspense that was purported to me by King’s…
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Women Who Run With Wolves
I first saw this book on a TikTok where a woman was raving about how this WWRWW changed her life. I should have done my own research. Maybe I misunderstood the title. I had thought this would be a literary analysis of “wild women” in literature, but instead I got feminist manifesto that felt… cheesy…
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The Princess Bride
S. Morgenstern’s Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure Pure Story. That’s what this novel is. It’s True Love and High Adventure packaged in a slightly offensive, witty, and just fun story. Admittedly, before starting this book, this story was already sentimental to me. For one, I had already seen the movie, which I…
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The Sweetness of Water
Recently freed brothers Prentiss and Landry make a temporary home in the forest of Old Ox, Georgia, where they bide their time, penniless but innovative despite their circumstance, before they head up north to search for their mother who had been sold before the war. George Walker, a northern man replanted in Old Ox, Georgia,…
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In the Dream House
I’ve learned several things from this book. Here are just three. First, there is no limit to how many times you can and should use the word “cunt.” Second, “lesbiansim” was once legally incomprehensible–as in a group of men, set in an actual judicial context, logically could not understand how two women could copulate or even…
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Fourth Wing (The Empyrean Book 1)
It’s like How To Train Your Dragon except everyone is way more bloodthirsty, brutal, and horny. In Fourth Wing, we are thrust into a fantasy world where dragon riders must undergo an unforgiving and cutthroat course that tests cadets on war strategies, pushes them past their physical and mental thresholds, and puts them through life-threatening…
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Radiance
What do you get when two protagonists find each other physically repulsive but must marry each other for the political good of their kingdoms? An endearing friends to lovers story that’s a far from your conventional romance. I absolutely adore the main characters in this novel. They are both kind, witty, and honorable people whose…
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Leaf Storm and Other Stories
A “leaf storm” blows into Macando, bringing with it the banana company, the dregs and decay of other towns, and economic prosperity followed by economic doom when the storm departs. In addition to the arrival of amusement parlors, hospitals and warehouses, is that of a doctor, who serves as the central focus of the novella’s…
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American Gods
I was in a reading rut the past month, and I picked up this book because I knew it wouldn’t fail me. American Gods follows Shadow, a formerly incarcerated man who tangles fates with Norse gods, deities from West Africa, Egypt, India, Native America, Ireland, and a host of miscellaneous characters. His life is a…
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