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<3 literary fiction, short stories, poetry 📖😌

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  • Bochica: A Novel
    prettymuchbooks
    Jun 05, 2025
    3.0
    Enjoyment: 3.5Quality: 3.0Characters: 3.0Plot: 3.0

    I could see this having more success as a tv adaptation but the plot didn’t quite hit as I had hoped. I still took a good bunch of quotes/lines from the book so there is that…

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    The Dry Season: A Memoir of Pleasure in a Year Without Sex

    The Dry Season: A Memoir of Pleasure in a Year Without Sex

    Melissa Febos

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  • Mona
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    May 31, 2025
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    Enjoyment: 4.5Quality: 5.0Characters: 4.5Plot: 4.5

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    Thoughts from 91% (page 160)

    On the last chapter and this book is really well written! Intensely intellectual with topics discussed between writers and sensual and funny and dark! It might take me a bit to put everything I’ve read into more coherent and engaging words to solidify my recommendation of this book!

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    Julie Chan Is Dead

    Julie Chan Is Dead

    Liann Zhang

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    Pola Oloixarac

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  • Sing the Truth: The Kweli Journal Short Story Collection
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    Sing the Truth: The Kweli Journal Short Story Collection

    Sing the Truth: The Kweli Journal Short Story Collection

    Laura Pegram

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  • Buffalo Girl
    prettymuchbooks
    May 27, 2025
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    Enjoyment: 4.0Quality: 4.0Characters: Plot:

    “And how many ways can I break a mask? How many syllables would it take to travel from one’s own stubborn and beastly tongue?” — from the poem, “The Wild Water Buffalo” This book is like a “lesson / in fortitude” as it interweaves the story of Little Red Riding Hood as we known it and as it’s been retold, across different cultures, into her own life. The way the structure of the little girl and the hungry wolf is reworked into the poet’s upbringing, her origin story & her mother’s, and how the poet herself comes of age. “… I don’t know if // I ever found happiness,” she says in one poem that stuns one to a halt. But then the poet gives us the image of feeling like air, free and untouchable and that there is just one of many moments of reclamation that made me feel hopeful of what’s to come. “if something must be taken away, continually, one must learn to cut out its value.” — from the poem, “The Light of the Moon,” & to me it feels like where there is a will, there is a way especially as it concerns securing “safe passage” in order to live another day. To live is to hunger and to be blunt, “we were a fucking wolfpack / for a free sample,” Stark says and later on adds: “I felt so gone I picked my own body’s price (tradition) / (never simple) and danced it near-dead…” “THE NIGHT IS LONG AND I BEAR THE HUNGER. The girl said: I AM HUNGRY, TOO.” — from the poem, “The Tale of the Tiger-Women” Some lines I want to come back to: “And everything even absence / leaves a trace within the body. / And everyone even truth / is their own version of memory.” “For years I ignored the sentence in my body.” “I am not frightened of risks, / but I am afraid of drowning.” “… she said too much, / wanted too little, wasted too much time” “History books are forever / missing the details of unfathomable / loss—“ “we all know there are no true villains — we’re just a bunch of hungry animals.” “What are we, but small creatures avoiding new versions of violence?”

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    Buffalo Girl

    Buffalo Girl

    Jessica Q. Stark

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    Julie Chan Is Dead

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    Liann Zhang

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  • One More World Like This World
    prettymuchbooks
    May 25, 2025
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    One More World Like This World

    One More World Like This World

    Carlie Hoffman

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