spines_with_steph's Reviews (559)

A Girl Within a Girl Within a Girl

Nanda Reddy

5.0

challenging dark emotional reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Little Rot

Akwaeke Emezi

4.0

challenging dark fast-paced

Diva Season

Hannah Dean

2.5

Harlem Rhapsody

Victoria Christopher Murray

4.5

challenging emotional informative reflective medium-paced

Loveable characters: Yes

South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation

Imani Perry

4.0

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

Happy Land

Dolen Perkins-Valdez

4.5

challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

A Short History of Drunkenness

Mark Forsyth

4.0

funny informative lighthearted reflective fast-paced

The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: A Memoir

William Kamkwamba, Bryan Mealer

4.5

funny informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

A Raisin in the Sun

Lorraine Hansberry

4.0

challenging emotional hopeful reflective fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Fair Play

Tove Jansson

3.5

lighthearted reflective fast-paced