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N.P. by Banana Yoshimoto
N.P. is textbook Banana Yoshimoto: we have a cheerful, occasionally off-beat, young woman, as our narrator, Daddy Issues, sucide(s), a bizarre love story, andโฆ incest?! I will say that N.P. does seem to attempt to include a mystery subplot (which doesnโt really go anywhere but stillโฆ). In this novel a writer published a collection of…
1990s, 1st pov, 3 STARS, Adult, Banana Yoshimoto, BOOK REVIEW, BOOK REVIEWS, Booklr, books about books, books about writers, Contemporary, DEATH, drama, female authors, GRIEF, incest, japan, JAPANESE AUTHOR, loneliness, Longing, My reviews, N.P., navel gazing, published in 1990, queer undercurrents, read in 2021, reading, SLICE OF LIFE, suicide, surreal, TRANSLATED FICTION, unrequited love -
Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley
that sex scene was ๐ Having enjoyed two of Mosleyโs latest novels (Trouble Is What I Do and Blood Grove) I was looking forward to delving into his earlier work. Devil in a Blue Dress is the first book in his Easy Rawlins series and, while it has many of Mosleyโs best traits, overall it…
1940s, 1st pov, 3 STARS, Adult, America, American, AMERICAN AUTHOR, Black & Black heritage authors, BOOK REVIEW, BOOK REVIEWS, Booklr, California, CRIME, DETECTIVE, Devil in a Blue Dress, Easy Rawlins, HISTORICAL FICTION, los angeles, male authors, missing persons, missing women, My reviews, MYSTERY, Noir, private investigator, published in 1990, RACE, read in 2021, reading, THRILLER, Walter Mosley -
Lucy by Jamaica Kincaid
โEverything I could see looked unreal to me; everything I could see made me feel I would never be part of it, never penetrate to the inside, never be taken in.โ From the very first page, I was enthralled by Lucyโs deceptively simple narration. To begin with, I was struck by the clarity of her…
1980s, 1st pov, 20th century, 5 STARS, ABSOLUTE FAVOURITE, Adult, ALIENATION, ambiguous protagonist, America, Antiguan author, beautiful prose, Black & Black heritage authors, BOOK REVIEW, BOOK REVIEWS, Booklr, Caribbean, caribbean author, class, CLASSICS, cold tone, coming of age, Contemporary, cultural dissonance, female authors, GRIEF, identity, introspective, ISLAND, Jamaica Kincaid, lgbtq+, LITERARY FICTION, loneliness, Longing, Lucy, MEMORY, migration/immigration, modern classics, mothers & daughters, My reviews, NOVELLA/SHORT STORY, Postcolonial, psychological, published in 1990, queer undercurrents, RACE, re-reads, read in 2020, read in 2021, read in 2022, reading, SEXUALITY, sitter/au pair/governess, the female malaise, unnamed country, VILLETTE
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