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Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
BATB score: 4/10 🤎 OMG. 12 main characters connected through societal roles as daughter, mother, grandmother, teacher, teacher's mother, student, girl-friend, girlfriend, gay transgender sister - throughout 12 chapters with 20+ other minor characters 👩👩👧👦👨👩👧👩👧👩👧👦 to complicate the stories even more #OMG Best to: extremely difficult to follow through the stories, too many things happening at the same time, minimal build up of character, impossible to bond
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
BATB score: 5/10 🍂 BATB Reading Level: Advanceeee Ocean Vuong is a poet and his story-tell rhythm is likeas a poem; you either love that about him or you don’t Best to: this book tries to be too many things - a memoir, history channel, animal planet, national geographic, coming of age; and touching on too many topics - immigration, war refugees, PTSD, illiteracy, racism, poverty, family, homosexuality #omg Best as: a very difficult book to write, to read, and to follow throu
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