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225 reviews
Girl Meets Boy by Ali Smith
emotional
hopeful
reflective
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
5.0
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
Did not finish book. Stopped at 6%.
Did not finish book. Stopped at 6%.
probably will revisit as a physical book
The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro
3.0
for a book about the act of forgetting, it had an aptly forgettable plot, made worse so by inconsistent characterisation & an anti-climatic ending, which, when combined with the extremely slow pacing of this book, would have resulted in me DNFing it if i hadn’t been listening on audio.
however, i will admit, the writing style was beautiful, with highly graceful prose. ishiguro managed to successfully tie together his very distinctly contemporary writing style with medieval world-building, creating a historical fantasy.
‘how can old wounds heal while maggots linger so richly? or a peace hold for ever built on slaughter and a magician’s trickery?’
Autumn by Ali Smith
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
4.5