Book Reviews
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Western Lane – Chetna Maroo
Mona and Khush began watching me closely. They were aware that something was happening at Western Lane, and that they were not part of it. Continue reading
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The Looming Tower – Lawrence Wright
Al-Qaeda’s first documented terrorist strike bore the hallmark of its future actions. … If they succeeded, al-Qaeda would make an unrivaled claim on the world’s attention. Continue reading
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In Ascension – Martin MacInnes
Something had got inside us, a compulsion, a desire, a need to return. Continue reading
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Either/Or – Elif Batuman
I had a powerful sense of having escaped something: of having finally stepped outside the script. Continue reading
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Slow Days, Fast Company – Eve Babitz
The trouble was that the men who cast her thought she was beautiful, so they put her into wistful, dreamy dresses when they should have handed her a whip and got out of the way. Continue reading
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The Anomaly – Herve Le Tellier
Someone somewhere in the galaxy has tossed a coin, and it really has stayed suspended in the air. Continue reading
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Hyperion – Dan Simmons
Then it moved… or, rather, it did not move but ceased being there and was here, leaning less than a meter from me, its oddly jointed arms encircling me in a fence of body-blades and liquid silver steel. Continue reading
