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Ghosts of Harvard by Francesca Serritella — book review
“It’s supposed to be a time when you’re about to embark on your adult life, but for many young people, that springboard looks more like a precipice.” Ghosts of Harvard is a patchwork of a novel. While the summary seems to promise more of thriller/academia type of book (I personally would not recommend this to…
3rd pov, academia, Adult, America, American, AMERICAN AUTHOR, BOOK REVIEWS, Booklr, Cambridge, campus, DEATH, drama, family, female authors, Francesca Serritella, Ghosts of Harvard, ghosts/spirits, GRIEF, Harvard, illness, Massachusetts, MELODRAMA, mental health, MYSTERY, PARANORMAL, published in 2020, read in 2020, schizophrenia, siblings, suicide, SUPERNATURAL, SUSPENSE -
Maurice by E.M. Forster — book review
“No tradition overawed the boys. No convention settled what was poetic, what absurd. They were concerned with a passion that few English minds have admitted, and so created untrammelled. Something of exquisite beauty arose in the mind of each at last, something unforgettable and eternal, but built of the humblest scraps of speech and from…
1900s, 1910s, 20th century, 3.5 STARS, 3rd pov, academia, bad love, bildungsroman, BOOK REVIEW, Booklr, British author, british classics, Cambridge, campus, class, CLASSICS, coming of age, E.M. Forster, Edwardian era, england, first love, Forster, Greece, greek myths, HISTORICAL FICTION, lgbtq+, LGBTQ+ Author, lgbtq+ classics, LONDON, Longing, m/m, male authors, masculinity, Maurice, morality, philosophical, published in 1971, queer, read in 2020, ROMANCE, SEXUALITY, SOCIAL COMMENTARY, Southampton, UNIVERSITY/COLLEGE, unrequited love
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