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dark reflective tense fast-paced
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Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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dark hopeful tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Loveable characters: Yes

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challenging dark emotional hopeful medium-paced

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reflective fast-paced
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emotional inspiring lighthearted reflective fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
adventurous emotional hopeful sad medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Loveable characters: Yes

Brilliant and emotionally devastating. This has solidified Hilary Leichter as an all-time favorite author of mine.

The Book of Delights: Essays

Ross Gay

DID NOT FINISH: 20%

I understand why people enjoy this book, but the stylistic writing choices the author made did not click with me.
adventurous emotional reflective medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Loveable characters: Yes

A clever entry into the absurdist anti-work canon! Read if you're a fan of Ling Ma's Severance or Calvin Kasulke's Several People Are Typing.
challenging dark emotional sad medium-paced
dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot

An interesting take on grief, loss, religion, and memory, but ultimately the overwritten prose buried any emotional impact this book could have had for me.