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Books I've read very recently:
Fingersmith by Sarah Waters. Impossible to put down because I had to know what was going to happen, but at the same time improbable and sometimes silly.
Another Little Piece by Kate Karyus Quinn. Huge disappointment. Based on a recommendation, I thought this was going to be a story about someone with amnesia and a mental illness who had some huge mysterious trauma in her past I'd find out about, and I'd be held into the story because of how suspenseful it was. However, it was a YA paranormal romance. Yawn.
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel. Wonderful. Loved it. Apocolyptic/post apocolyptic. I guess both since part of the story is during and part is after. I hope it gets made into a movie because I don't like to re-read books but I want to hear or see or something the story again.
Middlesex by Jeffery Eugenides. Really good story about someone born intersexed who is raised as a girl until doctors discover, at 14, that he's really a boy. Lives through a lot of interesting history in Detroit. Long, and I've heard people say it's slow, but I didn't mind the length or pace.
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