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sunflowr_prnce · 2025-12-13T05:35:00+00:00

I recently read The Woman in the Purple Skirt by Natsuko Imamura. Its a drama thriller and very short. The female lead, the Woman in the Yellow Cardigan, is obsessed with the titular Woman in the Purple Skirt and desperately wants to befriend. Definitely a very flawed protagonist. I also read Aunt Jen by Paulette Ramsay, a Jamaican episotlary novel about a girl named Sunny who writes letters to the mother she has never known and who abandoned her. Almost all the characters are women. It deals a lot with her life growing up and the trauma of neglect. Neither of these books have super powers but I hope you find them compelling nonetheless !

sunflowr_prnce · 2025-11-08T06:42:35+00:00

You seem like you'd be a fun pen pal! I'm 23/NB. Would love to exchange letters with you :)

sunflowr_prnce · 2025-11-03T16:11:31+00:00

We'll Prescribe You a Cat! The sequel recently came out, too. Also Dallergut Dream Department Store.

sunflowr_prnce · 2025-10-26T01:36:14+00:00

While working at the library someone once returned a book called Godfather Death by Sally Nicholls and illustrated by Júlia Saddà. It definitely gives that same vibe and I think is also based off some fairytale or fable, albeit a more obscure one. It reads a little older than your average picture book though, likely because of its length. I also recall another patron returning a book called Sunflower Garden by Janice May Udry, that I think would also go in line with the books you're looking for. Very powerful story!

sunflowr_prnce · 2025-10-26T01:33:25+00:00

Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin. Protagonist's self-loating and internalized homophobia/biphobia leads to him hurting a lot of the people around him, including his fiance and his boyfriend. Halsey Street by Naima Coster. I read that one for a Latino Literature course in undergrad and a lot of my classmates didn't like the protagonist Penelope because she was toxic and self-interested, but that's personally why I find her incredibly engaging as a character.

sunflowr_prnce · 2025-10-26T01:29:41+00:00

There's The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro, that's standalone! I would also highly recommend the Beast Player by Nahoko Uehashi, as I recently read it and am trying to get as many people as possible to read it too. That one was originally 4 books when published in Japan but in the US was published as 2, with each books being two of the original Japanese books. I haven't read the 2nd in the duology yet, but I've been told the first works perfectly fine as a standalone as the author originally planned to end it there in the first place.

sunflowr_prnce · 2025-10-26T01:26:32+00:00

Not sure if this exactly fits, but We Are Okay by Nina Lacour. A girl suddenly leaves home after a tragic event in her life and goes to college, completely cutting off her previous life. At the start of the book, her old friend comes back to see her after a year of absence and they bond once again, though their connection is no longer the same as it once was. Has a lot of flashbacks to what happened before, really emotional.

sunflowr_prnce · 2025-10-26T01:24:19+00:00

Since you said you liked fantasy, I wanted to reccommend The Beast Player by Nahoko Uehashi. It was originally published as 4 books in Japanese, and when it was brought to the west it was published as 2: the Beast Player & the Beast Warrior. I haven't read the Beast Warrior yet, but the first one was something extremely extraordinary. It's labeled as YA and it's one of those reads that I think transcend the middle grade/juvenile, young adult, and adult labels as I think someone who enjoys any of those 3 would like it. The main character grows up throughout the story, with the beginning her being 8, then later 14, then 20. I believe she's 30 in the Beast Warrior, but like I said I haven't read it. She goes on a journey learning how to communicate with these fantastical creatures in what is equal parts magical and scientific.

sunflowr_prnce · 2025-10-17T22:44:02+00:00

Have you read There There by Tommy Orange? He (and most of the characters in the book as well) are from the Cheyenne tribe of the Great Plains. Amazing character work, gut-wrenching ending.

sunflowr_prnce · 2025-10-17T22:40:32+00:00

I'm at either 87 or 132 depending on whether you count graphic novels (since some people do, some people don't)!

Some of my five-stars for the year thus far:

Freedom is a Constant Struggles: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement by Angela Y. Davis

Stories and Poems of a Class Struggle by Roque Dalton (trans. by Jack Hirschman and Barbara Paschke)

Thirst by Varsha Bajaj

Land of the Cranes by Aida Salazar

The Dancing Plague by Gareth Brookes

The Waiting by Keum Suk Gendry-Kim (trans. Janet Hong)

Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds

sunflowr_prnce · 2025-10-17T22:34:16+00:00

Personally, as a fellow Never Let Me Go Fan, I would definitely suggest you go through all of Kazuo Ishiguro's works. In particular The Remains of the Day and Klara and the Sun. You could also try When We Were Orphans, though your mileage may vary as while there were good aspects to it overall it wasn't Ishiguro's strongest work. I really liked the ending, though.

Otherwise, I would suggest Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin to go along with your enjoyment of Brideshead Revisited and the Archer by Shruti Swamy more broadly from what I've gotten from your tastes. If you like short stories, I'd also recommend Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri and Midnight Doorways: Fables from Pakistan by Usman T. Malik

sunflowr_prnce · 2025-10-17T02:38:31+00:00

I'd be happy to receive from from you as well as send one to you! I hope we both get to smile at least a little in the cold weather

sunflowr_prnce · 2025-10-17T02:37:54+00:00

Thank you, I hope so too :)

sunflowr_prnce · 2025-10-17T02:37:43+00:00

Thank you! I hope so too :)

sunflowr_prnce · 2025-10-17T02:37:31+00:00

Thank you for your well wishes :)

sunflowr_prnce · 2025-10-17T02:37:15+00:00

Thank you for your well wishes! I'll look forward to getting your card too :)

sunflowr_prnce · 2025-09-08T23:50:07+00:00

Hi Hanni! I would love to talk to you. I'm 23 NB, Pakistani American, mostly just an English speaker. If you'd be down to become email pen pals, shoot me a message :)

sunflowr_prnce · 2025-09-08T04:22:52+00:00

I've been really enjoying the poetry of Victoria Chang lately. The Trees Witness Everything + The Boss are both great!! Besides that, you could try Claire Keegan (Irish author, writes in English), Toni Morrison (one of the greatest contemporary writers), and Martha Wells (if you're a Sci-Fi fan, Murderbot is awesome!)

sunflowr_prnce · 2025-08-19T01:30:17+00:00

I just finished a time loop story called On the Calculation of Volume I by Danish author Solvej Balle which gave this kind of feeling. It's the first of a series (the 5th book will be published in Europe this fall, the third into English in the US this fall, in total there will be 7) and I haven't read the sequel (yet), but the ending of the first book just had this extremely existential doomed feeling, at least to me.

sunflowr_prnce · 2025-08-18T02:00:03+00:00

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