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Echoing Exhibition Views: Subjectivity in Post-Digital Times by A. R. Practice

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informative inspiring lighthearted reflective medium-paced

4.0

No Document by Anwen Crawford

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adventurous challenging emotional reflective fast-paced

4.0

Axiomatic by Maria Tumarkin

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adventurous emotional funny inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Fake Accounts by Lauren Oyler

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

4.0

Whew. I really enjoyed the first two-thirds – Oyler is incredibly talented, funny, eviscerating when describing the absurd contradictions and drives underpinning our use of the internet, and our negotiations with visibility and its other. While it would be easy to speculate that it was something to do with the mild but enduring unlikeability of the ever-knowing narrator, I think that what this intensely clever, often artfully written novel lacked for me was any sense of care for its characters or their various predicaments. While that may be the point – mimicry of the emotional conditions of the internet era – it was odd to finish a book liking it much less than I had for most of its reading. ALAS
How Should a Person Be? by Sheila Heti

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

5.0

The final chapters of this book are as perfect as any I've read. I love the book for its wit, wisdom, honesty and gorgeous reflection. I'm so glad I chose to reread it and recommend you do the same. 
Baby by Annaleese Jochems

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adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
Tenth of December by George Saunders

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adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful reflective medium-paced
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

Truly – one of the greatest.
Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill

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dark emotional funny hopeful reflective sad fast-paced
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

Heartbreaking! And, I think, hopeful. One of those books you love – treasure – for the wisdom of its writer (and her trapped, struggling, sometimes unwise characters). I'll definitely re-read this one. It's a gem of form and a masterpiece of observation.