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Our Country Friends by Gary Shteyngart
Well, I did it: I read one of the first works of “Pandemic Fiction” by a North American author. Too soon, you ask, for any author to do justice to the subject? Too soon to read about the last two complex and challenging years, laced with so much tragedy, especially as we’re not exactly out of the woods yet? I wondered too.
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Teen Review: The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
4 out of 5 Stars
“He had suddenly begun to have a sense that the reason he wanted the escape was not only in order to sacrifice thirty thousand on it and thus heal his scar, but also for some other reason. 'Is it because within my soul I am a murderer, too?' He had started to wonder. Something distant but burning had stung his soul.”
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Dune
The new Dune movie (2022) proved to be a character development exercise. I found myself longing for the galloping action style of the 1998 movie. Though the action sequences were few
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The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak
Uniquely narrated by a fig tree, The Island of Missing Trees switches between two timelines to tell a story of love, heartbreak and a nation torn apart.
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When I Grow Up by Ken Krimstein
What a powerful read. That this book exists is a miracle: originally written for a contest in 1930s Eastern Europe (in what is now Poland and Lithuania), these six essays were among hundreds hidden from the Nazis multiple times and eventually discovered in a church in 2017.
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Winter's Orbit by Everina Maxwell
Winter’s Orbit, by Everina Maxwell, is an intricately plotted blend of space opera, court intrigue, and slow-burn romance. When the death of Prince Taam threatens to destroy a peace treaty that protects the Iskat Empire from alien invaders, the Emperor attempts to salvage the treaty by arranging for her grandson, Prince Kiem, to marry Taam’s widower, Count Jainan.
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The Tenderness of Wolves by Stef Penney
When Stef Penney’s The Tenderness of Wolves, opens, it’s 1867 and winter in Dove River,
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The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones
An excellent and slightly supernatural story of revenge.
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Ascendance of a Bookworm by Miya Kazuki
Ascendance of a Bookworm is a light novel series by Japanese author Miya Kazuki.
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The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray
The Personal Librarian tells the story of Belle da Costa Greene, hired by J. P. Morgan to serve as the curator and librarian of his newly-constructed Pierpont Morgan Library.
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Beasts of a Little Land by Juhea Kim
Beasts of a Little Land is an epic saga set during Korea’s tumultuous history of Japanese occupation and the fight for Korean independence.
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Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Here’s the set-up of Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia: Noemi Taboada, a debutante livi