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The Awakening of Sunshine Girl by Paige McKenzie

lighthearted mysterious fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

Value Stream Mapping: How to Visualize Work and Align Leadership for Organizational Transformation by Karen Martin, Mike Osterling

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slow-paced

1.5

Look it's chock full of information but I'm so sick of reading books my boss bought me.

A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara

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challenging dark emotional hopeful sad tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

A lot of people have referred to this as "trauma porn" but I didn't get that, though I see why people could feel that way. I felt like it was much more akin to getting to know someone with a deeply troubled past. You know it the whole time and it comes out in bits and starts and it's awful. I found it deeply moving, incredibly impactful, and felt hopeful and promising, even though it was desperately sad. I thought it was a story, ultimately, of someone who kept getting up and trying again and again and again.

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Instructions for Traveling West: Poems by Joy Sullivan

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5.0

Vegas: A Memoir Of A Dark Season by John Gregory Dunne

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reflective fast-paced

4.0

I'm really not sure that I understood this book at all, but I am glad that I read it. I don't know how you can be unsure if you got the point and still be glad you read it, but there it is. The truth is, the book was better about confusion and uncertainty and the pain of trying to process your life as you continue living it and not knowing where any of the roads leading and looking back and realizing what you thought you got you maybe didn't, or maybe you got something else. I liked it. I just don't know if I got it.

Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club by J. Ryan Stradal

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emotional lighthearted medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

A book about 4 generations of women and how all of their choices contributed to each other - phenomenal and captured the heart of the midwest and Minnesota in a real way, a way that I could share with people to share my own home.

Last Couple Standing by Matthew Norman

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challenging emotional funny lighthearted fast-paced