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Confessions
Review How would you react if your child was murdered by two of your students? Yuko is a teacher that finds herself conflicted between her grief as a mother and…
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It Would Be Night in Caracas
Review It Would Be Night in Caracas is a timely novel, taking place in present-day Venezuela, a country that has been in the news for the large number of protests…
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Blue Is the Warmest Color
Review I don't know how I had missed out on this beautiful graphic novel until now, but it is one of the most emotional and true-to-life love stories I've ever…
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Summer, Fireworks, and My Corpse
Review Summer, Fireworks, and My Corpse is perhaps one of the more experimental stories I've ever read. It is told from the point of view of Satsuki, a young girl…
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The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing
Review I'm not entirely sure of what I expected when I got into this book, I had heard about the author after she had become an international sweetheart with the…
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Convenience Store Woman
Review Keiko is a convenience store worker and, to the people around her, a bit of an oddball. She has worked part-time at the same store for her entire adult…
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Beautiful Darkness
Review I don't think that there is anything that could have properly prepared me for the dark themes that are presented so capriciously in this graphic novel. The corpse of…