What did you read this year?
Samoyes’s
average rating for
2024
3.6
3.6
This book is about Boy, who is a girl abused by her father and rubs away to Flax Hill. She meets a widower with a daughter named Snow, and Boy then marries and has a child with the widower (Arturo) named Bird. We get the perspective of the titular Boy and Bird and the occasional voice of Snow. While there are certainly elements of Snow White in this novel, what this book really explores is, of course, power in beauty and more specifically outward
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This book is known for its eroticism of a bear by a woman named Lou who surprisingly finds this pet bear at a location where she is expected to archive the contents of the house. Set on an island which mirrors Lou’s own solitary and sequestered life, she comes to become more fascinated with the bear than her subject of study. And she is not the only one. This novel harkens back to the notion for the need to reconnect to nature, and also reconnect
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