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The Sleepwalker’s Guide to Dancing by Mira Jacob
“People always say time stands still, and it really is that, you know. You find the thing you love the most, and time will stop for you to love it.” A few months ago I read and loved Mira Jacob’s Good Talk so I was quite looking forward to The Sleepwalker’s Guide to Dancing as…
20th century, 3 STARS, 3rd pov, Adult, America, American, ARTISTS, BOOK REVIEW, BOOK REVIEWS, Booklr, cultural dissonance, DEATH, drama, family, FAMILY SAGA, female authors, forgiveness, GUILT, HISTORICAL FICTION, identity, illness, India, indian american author, intergenerational, MARRIAGE, MEMORY, migration/immigration, Mira Jacob, My reviews, New Mexico, photographers, published in 2014, read in 2021, reading, siblings, washington -
Last Night I Sang to the Monster by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
“I’m thinking I could spend the rest of my life becoming an expert at forgetting.” Heartbreaking, moving, and ultimately uplifting Last Night I Sang to the Monster is my favourite novel by Sáenz. While this novel explores themes and issues that are recurrent in Sáenz’s oeuvre, Last Night I Sang to the Monster is much…
1st pov, 2000s, 5 STARS, ABSOLUTE FAVOURITE, abuse, addiction, ALIENATION, America, American, Benjamin Alire Sáenz, BOOK REVIEW, BOOK REVIEWS, Booklr, child abuse, coming of age, Contemporary, conversational style, dark, DEPRESSION, dialogue heavy, distressing reads, family, favourite authors, friendships, GRIEF, Last Night I Sang to the Monster, lgbtq+, LGBTQ+ Author, loneliness, male authors, MEXICAN AMERICAN AUTHOR, My reviews, New Mexico, PSYCHIATRISTS & THERAPISTS, reading, rehab, sexual assault/abuse/rape, trauma, YOUNG ADULT -
The Five Wounds by Kirstin Valdez Quade
“Is this what motherhood means? Being suddenly able to pity the adults in your life?” Set over the course of a year in Las Penas, New Mexico, The Five Wounds is a novel about failure and progress. Unsentimental yet moving The Five Wounds details the everyday lives of three members of the Padilla family. There…
2010s, 3.5 STARS, 3rd pov, addiction, Adult, America, American, AMERICAN AUTHOR, BOOK REVIEW, BOOK REVIEWS, Booklr, catholicism, Contemporary, DEATH, f/f, family, fathers & daughters, female authors, forgiveness, identity, illness, latin american, latinx author, lgbtq+, LITERARY FICTION, motherhood, mothers & sons, My reviews, New Mexico, pregnancy, published in 2021, queer, read in 2021, reading, Religion, self-harming, SMALL TOWN, unrequited love -
Pretend I’m Dead by Jen Beagin
Pretend I’m Dead was 50 shades of fucked up but boy was it funny. “When he went to order their drinks, he asked, “What’s your poison?”“Oven cleaner,” she’d said with a straight face.Her sense of humor sometimes made people—herself, included—uncomfortable.” This novel is divided in four chapters, each one focusing on a particular relationship of…
3rd pov, 4 STARS, addiction, Adult, age gap, ALIENATION, America, American, AMERICAN AUTHOR, bad love, BISEXUAL/PANSEXUAL, Booklr, child abuse, Contemporary, contemporary malaise, dark, dark humor, DEPRESSION, ennui, female authors, graphic content, grotesque, illness, incest-y, Jen Beagin, lgbtq+, LITERARY FICTION, Massachusetts, mental health, millennial, mumblecore, New Mexico, obsession, Pretend I'm Dead, published in 2015, read in 2021, sexual assault/abuse/rape, suicide, surreal, toxic relationships, work culture
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