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This blog started as a result of my desire to just talk about all the books I love and all the ways they inspire me. While all the posts will of course be chock full of my own opinions and ruminations on my favorite books, I really want to hear from other people too! Please reply if something in a post speaks to you, but also if you disagree in some way; I’d love to talk with you. Happy reading!
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Instead of focusing on the progression of falling in love, the bonds that grow between Levi and Georgie build toward a climax of healing past wrongs. Their romance is handled like an inevitability, leaving the dramatic tension to build toward whether each character will overcome their pasts. The most important journeys in this novel revolve…
Three-hundred pages in and I felt like Kuang had yet to really hook me with any narrative weight. Worse, I realized I had been carried along for all those pages on a wave of story beats built entirely upon tired tropes of the fantasy genre.
As 2022 comes to a close, I feel like it’s necessary to summarize what may well have been my most active year of reading in years. What started as trying to establish a good habit – of reading for a set amount of time each night – has reignited my love of all things reading…
Lang’s writing powerfully captured the appeal of the road trip novel, using the shifting setting and characters at hand to move the plot forward. With each stop the sisters made, I was left wishing I could spend more time with each of the colorful individuals they came across. But as the book came to a…
We get to know our main characters in isolation, learning about their varied backgrounds, bonds, and motivations. Gwynne leaves just enough hints to allow readers to connect some of the dots on their own before their storylines begin to converge. Eventually, as all of their destinations start syncing up, it becomes clear that there’s more…
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