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What are you looking for? So asks Tokyo's most enigmatic librarian. For Sayuri Komachi is able to sense exactly what …
Norris Black • Amber Blaeser-Wardzala • Phoenix Boudreau • Cherie Dimaline • Carson Faust • Kelli Jo Ford • Kate …
An existential manual for tragic optimists, can-do pessimists, and compassionate doomers
With global heating projected …
Hmm. Thirty pages in and we've already had two or three quotes from Paul Kingsnorth. Not sure I like the way this is going...
Born into a body they hate and still reeling from the abuse they faced seven years ago, Pesuyama begins to …
Born into a body they hate and still reeling from the abuse they faced seven years ago, Pesuyama begins to …
An existential manual for tragic optimists, can-do pessimists, and compassionate doomers
With global heating projected to rocket past the 1.5°C …
Content warning spoilers, death of a child
So, it's not really what you'd call a cheery book. Janet is a very bookish girl who never really fits in, either with her family (her father seems indifferent and her mother impatient) or at boarding school. Her only real friends seem to be animals. She struggles through her childhood and then is murdered at sixteen. The prose is quite charming, and there are some laugh-out-loud moments and other wry observations, but the ending is abrupt and hard to fathom, and just adds to the overall feeling of bleakness.
