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Title: Klara and the SunAuthor: Kazuo IshiguroGenre: Sci-fi; DystopianBook Length: 320 PagesFormat Read: eBookYear Published: March 1, 2022 Date Started: November 12, 2025Date finished: November 18, 2025 My daughter read this book in her English IB course and recommended I read it because she knows how much I enjoy sci-fi and dystopian stories. She was... Continue Reading →
Title: ScytheAuthor: Neal ShustermanGenre: YA, dystopianYear Published: 2017 Date finished: August 10, 2021 Scythe by Neal Shusterman is a young adult dystopian novel about two teenagers who were chosen to become scythes. The setting is far future in a world of chaos where rules were put in to control the people. One of the rules... Continue Reading →
Title: Fake Like MeAuthor: Barbara BourlandGenre: Fiction, ThrillerYear Published: 2019 Fake Like Me is a thriller by Barbara Bourland. The story is written in first person point-of-view through a no-name narrator who starts out as an art student and moves her way upward. While in art school, the narrator becomes obsessed with a particular art... Continue Reading →
I went to the Barnes & Noble Book Club meetup yesterday to go over the selected book, American Dirt. You can read my review here. It was interesting because I felt like I had to defend the Mexicans (and to think I was bullied by them growing up), not the ones in the story, but... Continue Reading →
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