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While previous versions have softened the robust and sometimes shocking qualities of Tolstoy's writing, Pevear and Volokhonsky have produced a …
The highly-anticipated, genre-defying new novel by award-winning author Akwaeke Emezi that explores themes of identity and justice. Pet is here …
The highly-anticipated, genre-defying new novel by award-winning author Akwaeke Emezi that explores themes of identity …
one chapter in an I already cried reading this
Two girls who grow up to become women. Two friends who become something worse than enemies. In this brilliantly imagined …
"One of my favorite novels is The Left Hand of Darkness, by Ursula K Le Guin. For more than 40 …
The author’s observations on the great nineteenth-century Russian writers-Chekhov, Dostoevsky, Gogol, Gorky, Tolstoy, and Turgenev. …
I appreciated a Respected Voice dunking on Dostoevsky, therefore elevating my disinterest in his writing from a preference to an intellectual victory
It is 1866, and Walter Moody has come to make his fortune upon the West Coast goldfields. On the night …
Two time-traveling agents from warring futures, working their way through the past, begin to exchange letters—and fall in love in …
Baldwin's haunting and controversial second novel is his most sustained treatment of sexuality, and a classic of gay literature. In …
In the 1980s, poet and activist Roz Kaveney wrote a novel, Tiny Pieces of Skull, about trans street life and …
Ten years ago, Peter Pan left Neverland to grow up, leaving behind his adolescent dreams …
This book is very sweet, and while I don't normally go for romances, I really liked this one. I cried more in this book than any other I can think of, which perhaps says more about my own trans feelings than about this book in particular, but I think that's worthy superlative for the text.
All that said, I think a few points got lost in the weeds, and the third human character in neverland who's name I've forgotten got a short shrift in a plot that is very much about the central romance.
In the 1980s, poet and activist Roz Kaveney wrote a novel, Tiny Pieces of Skull, …
I'd only seen this recommended on the merits of it's historicity, which made me skeptical, but I'm really enjoying it based on the first few chapters
Ten years ago, Peter Pan left Neverland to grow up, leaving behind his adolescent dreams …
Content warning dream
I had a dream last night on which I recommended this book to someone!
Cried more in this book than any other I can recall.
In the near future, Oakland is haunted by natural disaster and political collapse. When k …
this book was VERY real and I give it a lot of credit for portraying what living amid catastrophe is actually like but boy oh boy do I wish I had a book on hand to read next that was extremely not about any part of my actual life
