Emily McLean rated Our Wives Under the Sea: 5 stars
Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield
Leah is changed. Months earlier, she left for a routine expedition, only this time her submarine sank to the sea …
This book spoke to me
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Emily McLean rated Small Beauty: 5 stars
Emily McLean rated Nevada: 5 stars
Nevada by Imogen Binnie
Frustrated by her current relationship, trans lesbian Maria Griffiths decides to change her life by making some brash decisions and …
Emily McLean reviewed Honeybee by Craig Silvey
Review of 'Honeybee' on 'Storygraph'
5 stars
This book spoke to me
Emily McLean rated So Far from My Life: 4 stars
Emily McLean rated This is how it always is: 5 stars
This is how it always is by Laurie Frankel
"This is how a family keeps a secret...and how that secret ends up keeping them. This is how a family …
Emily McLean rated I Know What You Did Last Summer: 4 stars
Emily McLean rated Moonstone: The Boy Who Never Was: A Novel: 4 stars
Moonstone: The Boy Who Never Was: A Novel by Sjon, Victoria Cribb, Sjón
Reykjavik, 1918. The eruptions of the Katla volcano darken the sky night and day. Yet despite the natural disaster, the …
Emily McLean rated Before the Coffee Gets Cold: 5 stars
Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
[Fiction / Fantasy / Contemporary] What would you change if you could go back in time?
In a small back …
Emily McLean reviewed Unknown Night and Day by Bae Suah
Review of 'Unknown Night and Day' on 'Storygraph'
4 stars
Disorienting and dreamlike, this is a novel that can only be understood in its own reality. Characters morph in person and in role, background plots shift to new contexts, new meanings, and entirely incompatible yet simultaneously real truths exist. All these are grounded and tied together through the use of repetition, the White Bus circling Seoul, the body between the ceiling and roof, The Blind Owl.
Disorienting and dreamlike, this is a novel that can only be understood in its own reality. Characters morph in person and in role, background plots shift to new contexts, new meanings, and entirely incompatible yet simultaneously real truths exist. All these are grounded and tied together through the use of repetition, the White Bus circling Seoul, the body between the ceiling and roof, The Blind Owl.
Emily McLean rated Convenience Store Woman: 4 stars
Convenience Store Woman by Ginny Tapley Takemori, 村田沙耶香
Keiko Furukura had always been considered a strange child, and her parents always worried how she would get on in …
Emily McLean rated Tale for the Time Being: 4 stars
Ruth Ozeki: Tale for the Time Being (2019, Canongate Books)
Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
In Tokyo, sixteen-year-old Nao has decided there's only one escape from her aching loneliness and her classmates' bullying. But before …
Emily McLean rated Heartstopper: 5 stars
Hannah Arendt: Eichmann in Jerusalem : a report on the banality of evil (2006, Penguin Books, Limited)
Eichmann in Jerusalem : a report on the banality of evil by Hannah Arendt
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil is a 1963 book by political theorist Hannah Arendt. Arendt, …
