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Hello, and welcome to the Karabou Review!

My name is Kara. I am an alumna of the University of Michigan, where I concentrated (i.e.: majored) in Creative Writing & Literature with quite a lot of psychology, French, linguistics, and history on the side. 

I started the Karabou Review because I enjoy reading, watching films and TV shows, and perusing art galleries. This blog is a great space for me to ruminate on the rather massive amounts of media that I consume on a yearly basis; and it also serves as a great excuse to continue doing so … 

To help you get to know me better and allow you to better estimate what I'll enjoy, here is a list of some of my very favorite pieces of literature in no particular order:

  1. The Historian - Elizabeth Kostova
  2. American Gods - Neil Gaiman
  3. Deathless - Cathrynne M. Valente
  4. A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
  5. Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino
  6. Psyche in a Dress - Francesca Lia Block
  7. Uprooted - Naomi Novik
  8. The Waste Land - T. S. Eliot 
  9. The Library of Babel - Jorge Luis Borges
  10. In the Penal Colony - Franz Kafka
  11. The Hunter's Moon - O. R. Melling
Naturally, I haven't finished a review for any of these, yet. Maybe someday. 

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