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(Pronounced “Leer-uh”) She/her | Lover of cats, tea, and all things whimsical.

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Cherry Blossom Festival 2026
My Taste
Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop
Kamisama Kiss, Vol. 1 (Kamisama Kiss, #1)
East (East, #1)
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Angels & Demons (Robert Langdon, #1)
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The Forgotten Kingdom (The Lost Queen, #2)
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I'm Waiting For You
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Every Day I Read: 53 Ways to Get Closer to Books
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Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
89%
Scarlet Morning
78%
The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea
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Dracula
76%
Slow Down: The Degrowth Manifesto
71%
When the Sea Turned to Silver
21%

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    I’ll admit, I had a hard time getting into this book and I’m still not sure, but everyone loves it.

    While on its surface, this book is a story about a young woman coming of age.

    What it really seems to be is story about how white women negotiate their relationship with a patriarchal power structure. Our main character wants to get as close as possible believing that her usefulness will protect her and will grant her power.

    The other twin thinks that true love and a wedding will protect her and it might as long as everything always goes well.

    The third is opting out of this structure by spending large parts of her time somewhere else and with someone the power structure finds undesirable.

    The problem? Without systemic change, all of these women are going to end up getting hurt and continue to hurt other people, especially minorities.

    Blood Over Bright Haven covered this territory with the subtlety of a sledgehammer and added in intersectionality, also with the subtlety of a sledgehammer and a plot that I had about 95% figured out by the middle of the first chapter, which made it a disappointing read for me.

    Anyway, if you’ve read this far in my book report, thank you. Do you think this is what Holly Black was thinking about? Do our characters start dismantling the systems that cause this or are they co-opted by comfort and stability?

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