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Lincoln in the Bardo
Finished
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Trial by Fire
Finished
One of my favorite genre books in a long time. Such an interesting world, magic system, political structure. It’s not particularly literary, focusing more on characters, dialog, and plot than on evocation or atmosphere, and honestly a bunch of its pieces are standard fare for YA with a female protagonist (I don’t know if the author considers this YA but it shares some traits regardless: outcast, “broken” girl is suddenly very important, torn between two boys, etc). Yet it still does a really great job fleshing out this world. I’m really looking forward to the next one.
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No Second Chance
Finished
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Age of Myth
Finished
Entertaining and competently written. Hugely formulaic, built on tons of familiar tropes, beginning to end, but well-enough put together. I might listen to more. Early on, the freed slave gives this small out-of-nowhere Ayn Rand rant about the value of struggling to survive that almost made me put down the book. But in the end I didn’t get a ton of that—in fact I got some stuff that was at times quite contrary to it—so I’m happy to have finished it. I might read the next one.
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An American Marriage
Finished
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Year One
Finished
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The Death of Mrs. Westaway
Finished
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Out of Spite, Out of Mind
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Don't Let Go
Finished
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Head On
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The Wife Between Us
Finished
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The Outstretched Shadow
Finished
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Skip to the End
Finished
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Factfulness Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
Finished
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Sharp Objects
Finished