Tag: literary fiction
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Embrace Winter with ‘The Snow Child’: A Heartfelt Review
For the first reading challenge of 2026, I decided to read a book that truly felt like winter. Not just with a significant increase in snowfall, but that gave you a sense of real cold. The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey captures that feeling and invokes so many more.
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Exploring Books by Month: A Fun Reading Challenge for 2026
This whole reading challenge was built around picking two books per month based on an element of the month itself.
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The Vanishing Half: A Positive Perspective
One of the reasons this story is so powerful is because it’s indicative of so many real stories of pain, love, and loss. This is a book that I will be thinking about for a long time.
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Slouching Towards Bethlehem: A Positive Perspective
These stories are a reflection of their time and place. Despite never visiting California and not being alive when these stories were originally written, I did not feel out of place as a reader. Everything on the page comes alive.
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Demon Copperhead: A Positive Perspective
In a similar way to Dickens, whose book David Copperfield inspired this story, Kingslover shows us parts of society that are often ignored and exploited.