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My September 2025 Reading Summary
Overall mood: rushed – given that I challenged myself this past month to reading classic fiction and dark academia fiction, this month has been a bit of a repetitive one in terms of themes, angles, and character tropes. I am glad I read these books, but it has impacted the way I read this month…
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Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin is an LGBT Classic
This classic is powerful, mesmerising, and heartbreaking in so many ways. Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin is one of those short novels that fills the whole space, with life in every word and emotion seeping off the page. It is lyrical and intense and complex and impossible to ignore. It is rough, focusing on many…
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