kevinpotts rated The Night Circus: 3 stars
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Within the …
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Heavy on sci-fi that respects physics, horror that literally keeps me up at night, abstract novellas that break my brain, fantasy that steps outside European colonialism, literature that glares angrily at the world, anything with broken and non-confirming characters, and any pop lit that has something to say. Non-fiction typically centers on exploratory deep dives on the natural world.
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kevinpotts rated The World Without Us: 5 stars
The World Without Us by Alan Weisman
The World Without Us is a 2007 non-fiction book about what would happen to the natural and built environment if …
kevinpotts rated A Confederacy of Dunces: 1 star
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
A Confederacy of Dunces is an American comic masterpiece. John Kennedy Toole's hero is one Ignatius J. Reilly, "huge, obese, …
kevinpotts rated On the road: 1 star
On the road by Jack Kerouac
Story of two restless young men in the late 1940s who cross and recross America, encountering parties, girls, drugs, loneliness …
kevinpotts rated Sylvia Plath's The bell jar: 5 stars
Sylvia Plath's The bell jar by Harold Bloom (Bloom's guides)
kevinpotts rated The swan thieves: 3 stars
The swan thieves by Elizabeth Kostova
Psychiatrist Andrew Marlow, devoted to his profession and the painting hobby he loves, has a solitary but ordered life. When …
Novels And Stories The Lottery The Haunting Of Hill House We Have Always Lived In The Castle Other Stories And Sketches by Shirley Jackson
The Lottery; or, The Adventures of James Harris The Intoxicated The Daemon Lover Like Mother Used to Make Trial by …
kevinpotts rated The Ten Thousand Doors of January: 5 stars
kevinpotts rated Slaughterhouse-Five: 3 stars
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time, Slaughterhouse-Five, an American classic, is …
kevinpotts rated The Road: 1 star
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
A searing, postapocalyptic novel destined to become Cormac McCarthy’s masterpiece.
A father and his son walk alone through burned America. …
kevinpotts rated Gideon la Novena / Gideon the Ninth: 5 stars
Gideon la Novena / Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir (La tumba sellada, #1)
El Emperador necesita nigromantes. La nigromante de la Novena necesita una espadachina. Gideon tiene una espada, unas revistas guarras y …
kevinpotts rated Generation loss: 4 stars
kevinpotts rated Beyond the Rock: 3 stars
kevinpotts rated Normal People: 4 stars
Normal People by Sally Rooney, Sally Rooney
Connell and Marianne grow up in the same small town in rural Ireland. The similarities end there; they are from …
kevinpotts rated Her Body and Other Parties: 5 stars
Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado
In “Her Body and Other Parties,” Carmen Maria Machado blithely demolishes the arbitrary borders between psychological realism and science fiction, …