What did you read this year?
Dylan’s
average rating for
2024
4.1
4.1
I loved this collection of short stories! Centred mostly around the lives of Jamaican women, Irving creates a variety of such interesting characters at different phases in their lives and journeys to self-discovery. I found the different detailed descriptions of daily life so well-developed and really enjoyed the majority of these stories, each one with some super insightful character arc moments and depictions of the universal desires that bind
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“There are no lies that wound as deeply as the lies we tell ourselves.�
Torn between 4 and 5 stars because I found that I had to read this one in short fragments and couldn’t exactly speed my way through it, but that’s only because every sentence requires careful reading and a complete immersion into the specifics and details of the environment that Boyt creates. I’m giving it the 5 because it really has everything I could want in a book - beautif ...more
Torn between 4 and 5 stars because I found that I had to read this one in short fragments and couldn’t exactly speed my way through it, but that’s only because every sentence requires careful reading and a complete immersion into the specifics and details of the environment that Boyt creates. I’m giving it the 5 because it really has everything I could want in a book - beautif ...more