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The Three Theban Plays: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus by Sophocles, Robert Fagles, Bernard Knox

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reflective medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

Blest, they are the truly blest who all their lives have never tasted devastation. For others, once the gods have rocked a house to its foundations the ruin will never cease, cresting on and on from one generation on throughout the race - like a great mourning tide driven on by savage northern gales, surging over the dead black depths roiling up from the bottom dark heaves of sand and the headlands, taking the storm’s onslaught full force, roar, and the low moaning echoes on and on…
The Twisted Ones: An AFK Book by Kira Breed-Wrisley, Scott Cawthon

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tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

It's so not good but at the same time really addicting. Literally the only thing this series has going for it is the lore implications and only for FNAF is that a reason to keep reading, if this wasn't FNAF it would've have been dnf'd a long time ago.
Bartleby by Herman Melville

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challenging slow-paced

2.0

The Silver Eyes by Kira Breed-Wrisley, Scott Cawthon

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dark tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

After watching the FNAF movie the 10 year old girl inside of me that fell in love with the lore desperately wanted to read this. Its not as bad as I thought
it would be and can’t wait to continue with this guilty pleasure series.
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro

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reflective medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

So far I have read two Ishiguro’s this one and NLMG and I have found him to be an infuriating writer because the worlds he develops are so complex and interesting and yet he doesn’t explain them…. Like tell me more!!!!
The Tempest by William Shakespeare

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adventurous reflective medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.
The Bear Came Over the Mountain by Alice Munro

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reflective sad medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

Daisy Miller and The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

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dark mysterious medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

2.0

I was so excited for The Turn of the Screw but James’s writing style is just so wordy that I struggled to stay focused and get through it.
The Hollow Crown: The Wars of the Roses and the Rise of the Tudors by Dan Jones

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Did not finish book. Stopped at 67%.
I was enjoying this but I’m a little lost in what’s happening and reading it is starting to feel like a chore. Will revisit at some other point in time.
Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair: Dual-Language Edition by Pablo Neruda

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reflective fast-paced

2.25

I have come to realize that maybe Neruda isn’t for me, as a lot of the poems when made my head. But it could also be this translation which when reading the poems already felt pretty bad and it feels nice to see that other people on this app agree with me.
Overall I liked five of the poems within this collection:
1. Body of a woman
5. So that you will hear me
8. White Bee
11. Your Breast is enough
16. In my sky at twilight 

And loved one:
20. Tonight I can write
This one almost almost almost brought me to tears and kind of made reading this collection full of poems that I didn’t like worth it because of how it contained this one.