An Ordinary Wonder is a story of the courage needed to be yourself. Oto leaves for boarding school with one plan: excel and escape his cruel home. Falling in love with his roommate was certainly not on the agenda, but fear and shame force him to hide his love and true self. Back home, weighed […]
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Review: Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
Piranesi’s house is no ordinary building: its rooms are infinite, its corridors endless, its walls are lined with thousands upon thousands of statues, each one different from all the others. Within the labyrinth of halls an ocean is imprisoned; waves thunder up staircases, rooms are flooded in an instant. But Piranesi is not afraid; he […]
Hello book bees and welcome to another discussion post. Today I want to talk about what happens when authors fictionalize or include real mythology in their works of fiction. This does not include retellings such as Madeline Miller’s Circe and The Song of Achilles, but does include such works as American Gods by Neil Gaiman, […]
For fans of Chemistry and Normal People: A mesmerizing and witty debut novel about a young woman growing up between two disparate cultures, and the singular identity she finds along the way But where are you really from? When your mother considers another country home, it’s hard to know where you belong. When the people you live among can’t pronounce your […]
In this tale of mental health and growing up, the author follows Paul. Paul grows up in Reykjavik in the shadow of Klepp, a mental institute he later becomes a resident of. Events such as his birth coinciding with the day Iceland joins NATO blend together into an almost cosmic fate for Paul as he […]
Hello book bees and welcome to another discussion post! This time I will be discussing what is called literary fiction. This term gets bandied about in reading and writing circles alike as a sort of genre-less genre, and there’s a lot of strangeness about it. Since I’ve been reading some books that could be classified […]
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Discussion: Pirate Literature
Hello Book Bees and welcome to another discussion post! This one is about the genre known as Pirate Literature, also called Transatlantic literature. Don’t worry, I’ll be getting into all the definitions you need as well as giving you some book recs if you’re interested in this genre but not quite sure where to begin. […]
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