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katinalynn rated The picture of Dorian Gray: 3 stars
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The picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
An exquisitely beautiful young man in Victorian England retains his youthful and innocent appearance over the years while his portrait …
katinalynn rated The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie: 4 stars
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is a novel by Muriel Spark, the best known of her works. It first …
katinalynn rated Dear Science and Other Stories: 5 stars
katinalynn rated A Map to the Door of No Return: 5 stars
A Map to the Door of No Return by Dionne Brand
A Map to the Door of No Return is a timely book that explores the relevance and nature of identity …
katinalynn rated In the wake : on Blackness and being: 5 stars
Christina Sharpe: In the wake : on Blackness and being (2016, Duke University Press)
In the wake : on Blackness and being by Christina Sharpe
In this original and trenchant work, Christina Sharpe interrogates literary, visual, cinematic, and quotidian representations of Black life that comprise …
katinalynn rated Zong!: 5 stars
katinalynn rated The Book of Eels: 2 stars
The Book of Eels by Patrik Svensson
Remarkably little is known about the European eel, Anguilla anguilla. So little, in fact, that scientists and philosophers have, for …
katinalynn rated Under the sea-wind: 4 stars
Rachel Carson: Under the sea-wind (2007, Penguin Books)
Under the sea-wind by Rachel Carson (Penguin classics)
katinalynn rated 克拉拉与太阳: 3 stars
克拉拉与太阳 by Kazuo Ishiguro, 宋佥
克拉拉是一个专为陪伴儿童而设计的太阳能人工智能机器人（AF），具有极高的观察、推理与共情能力。她坐在商店展示橱窗里，注视着街头路人以及前来浏览橱窗的孩子们的一举一动。她始终期待着很快就会有人挑中她，不过，当这种永久改变境遇的可能性出现时，克拉拉却被提醒不要过分相信人类的诺言。
在《克拉拉与太阳》这部作品中，石黑一雄通过一位令人难忘的叙述者的视角，观察千变万化的现代社会，探索了一个根本性的问题：究竟什么是爱？
katinalynn rated Solutions and Other Problems: 3 stars
Solutions and Other Problems by Allie Brosh
Allie Brosh returns with a new collection of comedic, autobiographical, and illustrated essays.
Solutions and Other Problems includes humorous stories …
katinalynn rated The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet: 4 stars
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers (Wayfarers, #1)
Follow a motley crew on an exciting journey through space—and one adventurous young explorer who discovers the meaning of family …
katinalynn rated All the king's men: 5 stars
All the king's men by Robert Penn Warren (A Harvest book)
The story is about Willie Stark, a slick politician of humble birth, who was based on real-life Huey Long, a …
katinalynn rated Evicted: 4 stars
Evicted by Matthew Desmond
From Princeton sociologist and MacArthur "Genius" Matthew Desmond, a landmark work of scholarship and reportage that will forever change the …
katinalynn rated Warmth of Other Suns: 4 stars
Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson, Robin Miles
In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of American …