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message 1: by Bill, Moderator (last edited Dec 01, 2023 05:58PM) (new)

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1. Poetry
- The Crossover by Kwame Alexander 218 pages, started 9 Feb, finished 11 Feb, 4.5 stars
- The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo 361 pages, started 11 Feb, finished 17 Feb, 5.0 stars
- Sunset Gun: Poems by Dorothy Parker 75 pages, started 30 Apr, finished 2 May, 3.5 stars
- Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo 424 pages, started 15 May, finished 15 Jun, 5.0 stars
- Ottoline and the Purple Fox by Chris Riddell 177 pages, started 6 Jul, finished 7 Jul, 4.0 stars

2. Plays
- Hag-Seed: The Tempest Retold by Margaret Atwood 301 pages, started 16 Jan, finished 9 Feb, 3.5 stars

3. Epistolary Books
- Thus Was Adonis Murdered by Sarah Caudwell 261 pages, started 19 Jun, finished 3 Jul, 3.5 stars
- This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar 18 pages, started 30 Nov, finished 1 Dec, 3.5 stars

4. Essays
- Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory Sarah Polley 259 pages, started 1 Jun, finished 27 Jun, 4.5 stars

5. Short Stories
- The Man Who Would be King and other stories by Rudyard Kipling 211 pages, started 10 Jan, finished 22 Jan, 3.5 stars
- Raffles by E.W. Hornung 165 pages, started 22 Jan, finished 29 Jan, 3.0 stars
- Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead 318 pages, started 8 Feb, finished 11 Apr, 4.0 stars
- The Terminal Beach by J.G. Ballard 221 pages, started 2 May, finished 30 May, 3.5 stars
- Interfaces by Virginia Kidd 310 pages, finished 4 Jun, 4.0 stars
- Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery": The Authorized Graphic Adaptation by Miles Hyman 137 pages, started and finished 4 Jun, 3.5 stars
- Casebook of the Black Widowers by Isaac Asimov 255 pages, started 4 Jun, finished 19 Jun, 3.5 stars

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My review of Raffles a collection of short stories by E.W. Hornung (3.0 stars)

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My review of Hag-Seed: The Tempest Retold by Margaret Atwood (3.5 stars)

(a play about a play within a play)... sort of.

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My review of The Crossover by Kwame Alexander (4.5 stars)

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Next in line is The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo


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My review of The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo 5.0 stars

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My review of Sunset Gun: Poems by Dorothy Parker 3.5 stars

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My review of a short story collection, The Terminal Beach by J.G. Ballard 3.5 stars


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Finished two books, one a collection of short stories and poems and the other a graphic novelization of a classic short story -

1. Interfaces by Virginia Kidd 4.0 stars
2. Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery": The Authorized Graphic Adaptation by Miles Hyman 3.5 stars


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Finished a novel written in free verse, Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo 5.0 stars

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Finished a collection of short stories, Casebook of the Black Widowers by Isaac Asimov 3.5 stars

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My first epistolary book. Thus Was Adonis Murdered by Sarah Caudwell (75% or more in letter format) 3.5 stars


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It's not all poetry but Ottoline and the Purple Fox by Chris Riddell features poems by the Mysterious Poet.. 4.0 stars


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This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone is basically an epistolary style book. Every second chapter is a letter from one protagonist to the other. Interesting. 3.5 stars


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