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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 -
This One Summer by Mariko Tamaki
Compared to Skim, This One Summer makes for a rather milquetoast affair. That is not to say that is bad but I did find the story and characters to be bland and very much been-there-done-that. This could have worked if the narrative had presented us with a more compelling protagonist than Rosie who is a…
2.5 STARS, ANGST, beautiful artwork, BOOK REVIEW, BOOK REVIEWS, Booklr, canada, coming of age, female authors, Graphic Novels, growing up, japanese canadian author, lgbtq+ side, mothers & daughters, My reviews, published in 2014, read in 2021, reading, Sequential Art, Summer, summer reads, teen angst, YOUNG ADULT -
Soy Sauce for Beginners by Kirstin Chen
In Soy Sauce for Beginners Kirstin Chen explores the dichotomy between tradition and modernity. When her marriage collapses our narrator and protagonist, Gretchen Lin, leaves San Francisco behind and returns to her family home in Singapore. Gretchen begins working at her family’s artisanal soy sauce business—hence the title—which was recently embroiled in a food-poising…
1st pov, 3 STARS, addiction, Adult, affairs, America, California, Contemporary, cultural dissonance, divorce/separations, drama, family, female authors, food & cooking, friendships, identity, intergenerational, jealousy, Kirstin Chen, MARRIAGE, published in 2014, read in 2021, san francisco, singapore, singaporean, Singaporean author, Soy Sauce for Beginners, work culture -
The Hole by Hiroko Oyamada
Hiroko Oyamada has spun a beguiling tale and the comparison to David Lynch is certainly spot-on. In The Hole mundane exchanges and places acquire a surreal quality while the author’s easy prose is brilliantly juxtaposed against her story’s growingly eerie atmosphere.After her husband’s job transfer, Asa moves outside of the city with him. The two…
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Blue Lily, Lily Blue by Maggie Stiefvater
“This thing they were doing. This thing. Gansey’s heart was a gaping chasm of possibilities, fearful and breathless and awed.” Blue Lily, Lily Blue is probably my second favourite book in TRC series. Bittersweet and magical Blue Lily, Lily Blue is a truly enchanting novel. Like its predecessors, this instalment in TRC series is characterized…
3rd pov, 5 STARS, ABSOLUTE FAVOURITE, academia, adventure, ALIENATION, America, American, AMERICAN AUTHOR, atmospheric, blue lily lily blue, boarding/private school, class, cliques, Contemporary, curses, dark academia, dreamers, Dreams, fairytalesque prose, FANTASY, favourite authors, female authors, friendships, gay, ghosts/spirits, great storytelling, henrietta, HIGH SCHOOL, it’s about the *yearning*, lgbtq+, loneliness, Longing, m/m, Maggie Stiefvater, MAGIC, MAGICAL REALISM, MYSTERY, PARANORMAL, published in 2014, queer, re-reads, read in 2016, read in 2020, read in 2021, rich people, ROMANCE, SMALL TOWN, strong sense of place, tarots, terrific prose, the raven cycle, TRC, YOUNG ADULT -
OPTIC NERVE : BOOK REVIEW
Optic Nerve by María Gainza ★★★★✰ 3.5 stars “I am a woman hovering at the midpoint of life, but I still haven’t lost my touch completely: it is within my power, for instance, to flit from the Schiavoni painting in the National Museum of Fine Arts to the Miguel Carlos Victorica they hold in the…
3.5 STARS, Adult, argentina, argentinian author, ART/CREATIVITY, ARTISTS, BOOK REVIEWS, Booklr, books about writers, Contemporary, different styles (1st/2nd/3rd povs), existentialism, female authors, history, introspective, latin america, latin american, latinx author, LITERARY FICTION, María Gainza, MEMORY, philosophical, published in 2014, re-reads, READ IN 2019, read in 2021, surreal, Thomas Bunstead, TRANSLATED FICTION, unnamed narrator
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