PJ rated Authority (The Southern Reach Trilogy): 3 stars
Authority (The Southern Reach Trilogy) by Jeff VanderMeer
For thirty years, a secret agency called the Southern Reach has monitored expeditions into Area X, a remote and lush …
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PJ rated The Bear and the Nightingale: 4 stars
The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden
At the edge of the Russian wilderness, winter lasts most of the year and the snowdrifts grow taller than houses. …
PJ rated The Hobbit: 4 stars
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends …
PJ rated Step by Step: 2 stars
PJ rated The Queen's gambit: 4 stars
The Queen's gambit by Walter Tevis
The Queen's Gambit is a 1983 American novel by Walter Tevis, exploring the life of fictional female chess prodigy Beth …
PJ rated Saga, Volume 1 (dupe): 4 stars
PJ rated The Perks of Being a Wallflower: 5 stars
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
"I walk around the school hallways and look at the people. I look at the teachers and wonder why they're …
PJ rated Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine: 3 stars
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
Eleanor Oliphant has learned how to survive – but not how to live. She wears the same clothes to work …
PJ rated A Darker Shade of Magic: 4 stars
A Darker Shade of Magic by V. E. Schwab
STEP INTO A UNIVERSE OF DARING ADVENTURE, THRILLING POWER, AND MULTIPLE LONDONS.
Kell is one of the last travelers--magicians with …
PJ rated Memory Police: 3 stars
Memory Police (2020, Penguin Random House)
Memory Police by 小川洋子, Stephen Snyder
"「在妳出生之前，島上曾經有好多好多東西。晶瑩剔透的、芳香宜人的、閃閃發亮的、光豔動人的……總之，有許多妳作夢也想不到的美好事物。」小時候，母親總是對我訴說關於「消滅」的故事。我們居住的小島上，事物陸續消滅。緞帶、鈴鐺、郵票、綠寶石、香水…… 這些東西消滅的時候，大家的記憶便隨之燒毀埋葬，心靈也逐漸乾涸枯竭，徒留記憶的空洞。只有母親把這些遺落的記憶細心收藏在祕密櫃子裡。然而，我卻意外失去了母親、失去了父親、失去了雙親的遺物…… 如今，生命中另一個重要的事物又即將消滅…… 當世上的一切消失殆盡，唯有收藏著祕密結晶的人，才能擁抱未來活下去。"--P. [4] of cover.
