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Genshin Impact Manga - All Chapters by miHoYo

adventurous fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix

3.0

bit rough in the first few chapters but pulled together later, cool look at the beginnings and background lore of genshin!

Warriors Graphic Novel: The Prophecies Begin #1 by Erin Hunter

adventurous fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix

4.0

very cute art!

Swallowdale by Arthur Ransome

adventurous lighthearted medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix

3.0

i always loved the idea of swallowdale i want to go there

Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome

adventurous reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No

3.5

very british, like a stodgy yet pleasant pudding 

The Library Book by Susan Orlean

informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

4.0

this is like when the lecturer keeps rambling off on anecdotes but all the tangents are interesting 

Patricia Wants to Cuddle by Samantha Allen

dark tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.0

truly a wild premise for a book and i respect it
the cover and blurb definitely did not do it justice, i was gonna skip based on that but i liked the title and it sounded familiar - someone i follow on sg rated it well. turns out the writing was much higher quality than the cover and blurb for this edition lead me to believe

Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg

challenging dark emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

i actually really enjoyed this and basically couldn't put it down?? i think feinberg does a really good job of capturing the feel of a specific landscape, a specific community in a specific era. and the 'moral' of the story is still really really relevant today. the struggles may have different names but the same underlying shape but also its good to see how far we've come

Hani And Ishu's Guide To Fake Dating by Adiba Jaigirdar

emotional funny lighthearted fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

3.5

CHURNED through this. i love fake dating

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

challenging dark emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated

4.5

i enjoyed this way more than i expected but i also had no idea what it was about going in
even though it's a bit of a depressing book it's not grimdark, which is all i need - the characters are all pretty decent people just trying to do their best. it feels like a really honest depiction of what life was like in that era, and made me so mad. steinbeck really said FUCK COPS FUCK CAPITALISM we are stuck in an unending cycle of exploitation and it is inhumane to be rich in this economy. he said this almost a hundred years ago. wow.
the book wasn't hugely plotty and did kind of just... end, but that's okay because that feels true to the honesty of what steinbeck was trying to depict.

Homestuck by Andrew Hussie
Did not finish book. Stopped at 5%.

read act 1 ages ago and i know that’s apparently the worst one but i just am not feeling committing to homestuck right now