katinalynn rated Home Fire: 5 stars
Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie
Isma is free. After years spent raising her twin siblings in the wake of their mother's death, she is finally …
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katinalynn rated What Can a Body Do?: 4 stars
What Can a Body Do? by Sara Hendren
Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR
A fascinating and provocative new way of looking at the things …
katinalynn rated Trick Mirror: Reflection on Self-delusion: 3 stars
katinalynn rated Nice work: 3 stars
David Lodge: Nice work (1989, Penguin Books)
Nice work by David Lodge (King Penguin)
Nice Work is a 1988 novel by British author David Lodge. It is the final volume of Lodge's "Campus Trilogy", …
katinalynn rated Barkskins: 3 stars
Barkskins by Annie Proulx
"Bark Skins open in New France in the late 18th century as Rene Sel, an illiterate woodsman makes his way …
katinalynn rated Why We Swim: 3 stars
katinalynn rated The Mushroom at the End of the World: 5 stars
The Mushroom at the End of the World by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
What a rare mushroom can teach us about sustaining life on a fragile planet
Matsutake is the most valuable mushroom …
katinalynn rated The City We Became: 4 stars
The City We Became by N. K. Jemisin
In Manhattan, a young grad student gets off the train and realizes he doesn't remember who he is, where he's …
katinalynn rated The Glass Hotel: 3 stars
The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel
Vincent is a bartender at the Hotel Caiette, a five-star lodging on the northernmost tip of Vancouver Island. On the …
katinalynn rated The Book of Delights: 5 stars
katinalynn rated The Tiger Flu: 3 stars
The Tiger Flu by Larissa Lai
In this visionary novel by Larissa Lai—her first in sixteen years—a community of parthenogenic women, sent into exile by the …
katinalynn rated Decolonizing Academia: 5 stars
katinalynn rated The Starless Sea: 5 stars
The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Night Circus, a timeless love story set in a secret underground …
katinalynn rated In the Dream House: 5 stars
In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado
For years Carmen Maria Machado has struggled to articulate her experiences in an abusive same-sex relationship. In this extraordinarily candid …
katinalynn rated The Song of Achilles: 5 stars
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
This is the story of the seige of Troy from the perspective of Achilles best-friend Patroclus. Although Patroclus is outcast …