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Renata rated The Beauty of Light: 2 stars
Renata rated Small Things Like These: 3 stars
Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
It is 1985, in an Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal and timber …
Renata rated Men in the Sun: 3 stars
Men in the Sun by Ghassan Kanafani, Hilary Kilpatrick
Men in the Sun (Arabic: رجال في الشمس, romanized: Rijāl fī al-Shams) is a novel by Palestinian writer and political …
Renata rated Fifty Sounds: 3 stars
Fifty Sounds by Polly Barton
Fifty Sounds is a personal dictionary of the Japanese language, recounting her life as an outsider in Japan. Irreverent, humane, …
Renata rated Vagabonds!: 2 stars
Vagabonds! by Eloghosa Osunde
In the bustling streets and cloistered homes of Lagos, a cast of vivid characters—some haunted, some defiant—navigate danger, demons, and …
Owlish by Natascha Bruce, Dorothy Tse
In the mountainous city of Nevers, there lives a professor of literature called Q. He has a dull marriage and …
Renata rated My Heavenly Favourite: 4 stars
Renata rated Heavyweight: 3 stars
Renata rated Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique: 4 stars
Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique by Sa'ed Atshan
From Ramallah to New York, Tel Aviv to Porto Alegre, people around the world celebrate a formidable, transnational Palestinian LGBTQ …
Renata rated Poor things: 3 stars
Poor things by Alasdair Gray
One of Alasdair Gray's most brilliant creations, Poor Things is a postmodern revision of Frankenstein that replaces the traditional monster …
Babel by R. F. Kuang
From award-winning author R. F. Kuang comes Babel, a thematic response to The Secret History and a tonal retort to …