Book Reviews
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Book Lovers – Emily Henry (Or: Genre Fiction Has Failed Us)
My mind feels less like it’s spinning than like it’s spinning fifteen plates that are on fire. Continue reading
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Pigeon – Patrick Süskind
This eye, a small, circular disc, brown with a black centre, was dreadful to behold. Continue reading
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Kappa – Ryunosuke Akutagawa
“Me? I’m an Übermensch”, Tok declared proudly. (Well, a direct translation would be more like Überkappa). Continue reading
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A Little Lumpen Novelita – Roberto Bolaño
Then a sigh of relief would escape my throat. I would gasp and smile as if I had just risen from deep waters, out of air, oxygen tanks empty. Continue reading
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Shantaram – Gregory David Roberts
The impression was of a plodding, indefatigable, and distant past that had crashed intact, through barriers of time, into its own future. I liked it. Continue reading
