On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

Ocean Vuong

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It’s funny, prose steeped in poetic rhythm and verse is not usually my thing. I knew Vuong was a poet by trade before starting this book, and simply, I didn’t think this would do it for me. His debut novel, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, actually blew me away. Its structure and writing style were beautifully complementary—I wanted to sit and entertain each sentence. If you’re a fan of Frank O’Hara’s poetry—i.e., you enjoy lines of verse that feel breathless and heart wrenching—pick this up.

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The Memory Police

Yoko Ogawa

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I enjoyed this novel because it left me so unsettled. It’s a story that feels isolated from reality while also feeling so entrenched in society’s underbelly. Ogawa’s book is dystopian, psychological, even philosophical at some points. I think what I enjoyed most was that the book felt dystopian, yet without an intense drive toward survival—that’s what was unsettlin

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Educated by Tara Westover

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Yes, I know I’m late to the game. However, this memoir lived up to everything everyone told me it would be.

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The Vanishing Half: Shortlisted for the Women's Prize 2021

Brit Bennett

£14.99

Need I say more? Each character in this novel was full and alive. Often I skip characters’ plotlines in multi-POV stories, but that was far from the truth in The Vanishing Half. What I think elevates this novel from good to excellent is the last fifty pages. The final glimpses we get of the characters and their interwoven stories were so poignant. I’ll echo the Greek chorus - read this book!

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