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Crossing by Pajtim Statovci

Very bleak. Incredible structure. I think I loved it.

Carson McCullers: A Life by Mary V. Dearborn

This was fascinating. Really enjoyed.

Still Life by Katherine Packert Burke

Nothing really happens in this book, and sometimes that doesn't work for me but wow I loved it. It's a really beautiful book about the texture of life, I think, the dailiness of it, even in the middle of turmoil. Loved.

The Free People's Village by Sim Kern

I really appreciated this book. It's about continuing. It's about showing up after you mess up. I can see how it won't be for everyone, but I dug the way Kern wrote a flawed protagonist who never becomes a hero at all, who just keeps going.

Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures by Mary Ruefle

Really enjoyed this. The way she writes about poetry is brilliant. Sharp and wise and curious and mysterious and earnest and searching.

To All the Yellow Flowers by Matthew Merlino, Timothy St. Pierre, Raya Tuffaha

Not a style of poetry that works for me.
Very statement-heavy. Does not make me feel any kind of language-joy.
This kind of poetry is for some people though, so it might be for you!

A Good Happy Girl by Marissa Higgins

So sharp.
Not for me.
Did not care about these people or find them interesting.
I am just not in the mood for books that aren't earnest.

Cinema Love by Jiaming Tang

Adored. Loved.
Everything I crave in queer fiction.
Quiet, beautiful, full of history and memory, complicated characters.
Love.

Exhibit by R.O. Kwon

Could not get into this at all.
Did not get me in the heart at all.
Didn't love the audiobook narrator. Wasn't in the mood?

Women! In! Peril! by Jessie Ren Marshall

Wow, this was so boring, I literally finished it a few hours ago and can't remember a thing about it. Just not my scene.