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Fiction Reviews Dump

She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chain

Another Place You've Never Been by Rebecca Kauffman

The Idiot by Elif Batuman

Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong

Too Bright to Hear Too Loud to See by Juliann Garey

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk

Dietland by Sarai Walker

A Good Neighborhood by Therese Anne Fowler

December 30, 2021 by Nannerbears 1 Comment

Apologies in advance, and I hope I can be forgiven for the end-of-the-year review dump. I’ve had bits and pieces to say about the books I read but it never felt well-formed enough to tell others about them. So, here we go, a review dump of some of the fiction I read this year.  A Good Neighborhood |  Therese Anne Fowler We’ve all been reading long enough to know that a book titled A Good Neighborhood is not actually about a good neighborhood. It’s about […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Fiction Tagged With: Detransition Baby, dietland, elif batuman, Good Neighborhood, Juliann Garey, multiple reviews, ocean vuong, Olga Tokarczuk, Rebecca Kauffman, sarai walker, She Who Became the Sun, Shelley Parker-Chain, the idiot, Therese Anne Fowler, Torrey Peters

Nannerbears's CBR13 Review No:17 · Genres: Audiobooks, Fiction · Tags: Detransition Baby, dietland, elif batuman, Good Neighborhood, Juliann Garey, multiple reviews, ocean vuong, Olga Tokarczuk, Rebecca Kauffman, sarai walker, She Who Became the Sun, Shelley Parker-Chain, the idiot, Therese Anne Fowler, Torrey Peters ·
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Don’t be deceived by the cover. This book will kick your ass.

Dietland by Sarai Walker

July 3, 2016 by yesknopemaybe 2 Comments

The title and cover of this book are incredibly misleading. I knew to expect something a little different based on a few reviews, but if I had been going off first impressions, I would have expected a lighthearted beachy read. Something fluffy and deliciously fun. Dietland was fun, but not in fluffy way. One of the blurbs for it described it as Fight Club meets Margaret Atwood which is pretty spot on. The main character, Plum, tries her hardest to go unnoticed. She spends her […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: dietland, feminism, Fiction, sarai walker

yesknopemaybe's CBR8 Review No:43 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: dietland, feminism, Fiction, sarai walker ·
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