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, …
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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 …
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 …
Renata rated The Color Purple: 4 stars
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
The Color Purple is a 1982 epistolary novel by American author Alice Walker which won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for …
Renata rated Sitt Marie-Rose: 3 stars
Sitt Marie-Rose by Etel Adnan
Translated from the French by Georgina Kleege, Sitt Marie Rose, is the story of a woman abducted by militiamen during …
Renata rated Who's Afraid of Gender?: 2 stars
Who's Afraid of Gender? by Judith Butler
Judith Butler, the ground-breaking philosopher whose influential work has redefined how we think about gender and sexuality, confronts the attacks …