Tag: book club books
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If I Had Your Face by Frances Cha
If I Had Your Face strikes similar notes of melancholy to the other Korean literature I’ve read despite being written in English.
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Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
The philosophical meat and potatoes of this book of city-themed prose poems quickly starts to taste like leftovers.
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Other Russias by Victoria Lomasko
The interesting form factor of graphic journalism combines with sparse, immediate narrative to make Other Russias a quick and interesting read.
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The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Easily my favorite book of 2021, The Poisonwood Bible is a decades-spanning epic that I’ll keep for the rest of my life.
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The Book of Salt by Monique Truong
The first book I’ve read in 2022, The Book of Salt is rich in aesthetics and emotion but could benefit from dialing it back.
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I’ll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara
This was easily my least favorite book of the 53 I read in 2021. It is possibly my least favorite book that I have read by choice in my adult life.
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Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
I didn’t register this book as dystopian fiction when I read it. So many of its ‘dystopian’ qualities reflect aspects of everyday life in a world afflicted by a pandemic and late-stage capitalism.
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The City We Became by N. K. Jemisin
I didn’t hate it, but I think the single best descriptor for it is “unsubtle.”
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Dune by Frank Herbert
I didn’t like Dune while I was reading it. But I kept thinking about it for days after I finished it.
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