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My favourite type of book is pretentious literary fiction, but I'll read almost anything

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What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma

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Katabasis

R.F. Kuang

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Katabasis

R.F. Kuang

Two graduate students must set aside their rivalry and journey to Hell to save their professor’s soul, perhaps at the cost of their own. Alice Law has only ever had one goal: to become one of the brightest minds in the field of Magick. She has sacrificed everything to make that a reality—her pride, her health, her love life, and most definitely her sanity. All to work with Professor Jacob Grimes at Cambridge, the greatest magician in the world—that is, until he dies in a magical accident that could possibly be her fault. Grimes is now in Hell, and she’s going in after him. Because his recommendation could hold her very future in his now incorporeal hands, and even death is not going to stop the pursuit of her dreams. Nor will the fact that her rival, Peter Murdoch, has come to the same conclusion.

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Jun 28, 2026

Breakfast At Tiffany's

3.5

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This is a quick read and an overall enjoyable one. It reminds me a lot of the Sally Bowles segments of Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood. There's a lot of outdated offensive language used (slurs a plenty) but it does likely fit the actual conversation of the time period. I do wish I could stop reading about manic pixie dream girls (who are actually deeply traumatised but also have pretty privileged) from the perspective of the outside male gaze observer though. (This book did make me grateful that I was never conventionally attractive enough to live a life like Holly Golightly's!)