Harrowing. Read this only when you're in a good headspace. I enjoyed and appreciated it a lot, and also found it such a difficult book to read.
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Fat loud lesbian. Leftie. SF/F writer, pop enjoyer, cat lover.
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Norah rated The stone gods: 2 stars
Jeanette Winterson: The stone gods (2007, Hamish Hamilton)
The stone gods by Jeanette Winterson
This new world weighs a yatto-gram.
But everything is trial-size; tread-on-me-tiny or blurred-out-offocus huge. There are leaves that have grown …
Norah rated Paper girls, Vol. 1: 4 stars
Paper girls, Vol. 1 by Brian K. Vaughan (Paper Girls #1)
In the early hours after Halloween of 1988, four 12-year-old newspaper delivery girls uncover the most important story of all …
Norah rated The Complete Persepolis: 5 stars
Norah rated Team seven: 3 stars
Team seven by Marcus Burke
"A teen basketball player's promising career threatens to be derailed by the drugs and violence in his seedy neighborhood"--
Norah reviewed The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
A dazzling new novel of friendship and redemption in the face of tragedy and loss …
Review of 'The Great Believers' on 'Goodreads'
5 stars
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
A searing, postapocalyptic novel destined to become Cormac McCarthy’s masterpiece.
A father and his son walk alone through burned America. …
Norah rated Pimp: The Story of My Life: 4 stars
Norah rated On Writing: 3 stars
On Writing by Stephen King
"Long live the King" hailed Entertainment Weekly upon the publication of Stephen King's On Writing. Part memoir, part master class …
Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
An extraordinary story of love and hope from the bestselling, Man Booker-shortlisted author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist.
Nadia and Saeed …
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty
The blogger behind the popular Web series Ask a Mortician describes her experiences working at a crematory, including how she …
Norah rated Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World: 4 stars
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami
'A narrative particle accelerator that zooms between Wild Turkey Whiskey and Bob Dylan, unicorn skulls and voracious librarians, John Coltrane …
Norah rated My Friend Dahmer: 1 star
My Friend Dahmer by Derf Backderf, Marc Meyers
You only think you know this story. In 1991, Jeffrey Dahmer—the most notorious serial killer since Jack the Ripper—seared himself …
Norah rated Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: 5 stars
Norah rated Leah on the offbeat: 2 stars
Becky Albertalli: Leah on the offbeat (2018, Balzer & Bray)
Leah on the offbeat by Becky Albertalli
Leah Burke girl-band drummer, master of deadpan, and Simon Spier s best friend takes center stage in this novel of …