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This One Summer
This One Summer
Mariko & Jillian Tamaki | 2014 | Comics & Graphic Novels, Contemporary, Young Adult (YA)
10
10.0 (1 Ratings)
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I've read the Tamakis' work before. They really know how to create real characters in real settings. Just because it's a graphic novel doesn't mean that it's only meant for kids. Oh, this is so not. I only recommend starting in the upper teens (Like 15, 16 years old) to read this book.
  
Dark Avengers, Volume 1: Assemble
Dark Avengers, Volume 1: Assemble
Brian Michael Bendis | 2009 | Comics & Graphic Novels
7
7.5 (6 Ratings)
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Norman osborne (1 more)
Dark avengers
My kinda graphic novel what if the avengers were team of bad guys mostly former members of the thunderbolts team and led by Norman Osborne himself when he's not the green goblin. It works as a comic and to see Osborne leading his own team is interesting concept
  
Truth be told: I wasn't really all that impressed by this novel. I found the plot to be pretty obvious from the get-go, none of the central characters to be all that interesting, and the phonetic spelling of pronunciation to be rather off-putting.

Perhaps I'm just not the target audience?
  
Raven, Fire, and Ice (Touch of Truth #1)
Raven, Fire, and Ice (Touch of Truth #1)
Nita Round | 2018 | LGBTQ+, Science Fiction/Fantasy
9
9.0 (1 Ratings)
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This fantasy/steampunk novel was a glue read, one you can't put down and sticks with you. The development of the characters relationship was almost a character itself and a strong driving force in the story. The conflict and draw of the three main characters will keep you reading that "one more page".
  
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Michael Henry Heim, Milan Kundera | 1985 | Fiction & Poetry
7.3 (4 Ratings)
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"The philosophical concept introduced in the title speaks volumes and poses so many questions. Kundera’s novel opened up a whole new chapter of my life and ushered in a new understanding of perspective. Life is filled with wins and losses, both big and small, but all are temporary, fleeting, perhaps affecting, but impermanent."

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Go Tell it on the Mountain
Go Tell it on the Mountain
James Baldwin, Edwidge Danticat | 2016 | Fiction & Poetry
10.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Favorite

"One of the first books I read when I moved to New York City, I like that James Baldwin imparts some of his own experience growing up in Harlem into this novel. It deals with issues of race and the church, and how both can be positive and negative factors in life."

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