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Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders | Book Review.

“He came out of nothingness, took form, was loved, was always bound to return to nothingness.” Another book off my list for my Reading...

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Offshore by Penelope Fitzgerald | Book Review

“There isn’t one kind of happiness, there’s all kinds. Decision is torment for anyone with imagination. When you decide, you multiply the...

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A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James | Book Review.

“If it no go so, it go near so. —Jamaican proverb” “Killing don’t need no reason. This is ghetto. Reason is for rich people. We have...

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Candide by Voltaire- Mini Book Review.

"Optimism," said Cacambo, "What is that?" "Alas!" replied Candide, "It is the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is...

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Beartown by Fredrik Backman-Book Review.

“There are few words that are harder to explain than "loyalty." It's always regarded as a positive characteristic, because a lot of...

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Stoner by John Williams | Book Review

"In his forty-third year William Stoner learned what others, much younger, had learned before him: that the person one loves at first is...

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Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason- Book Review

"Everything is broken and messed up and completely fine. That is what life is. It's only the ratios that change." " This novel is about a...

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A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry-Book Review.

“You see, we cannot draw lines and compartments and refuse to budge beyond them. Sometimes you have to use your failures as...

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The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde- Book Review.

“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.” This is a story about Dorian Gray, a young,...

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Frankenstein by Mary Shelley-Book Review.

“Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.” This book tells the story of Victor...

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Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan-Book Review.

“He found himself asking was there any point in being alive without helping one another?” In this little gem of a novella we follow Bill...

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One Hundred Years of Solitutde by Gabriel García Márquez-Book Review.

“There is always something left to love.” This was a weird, memorable and exhausting read for me. "One Hundred Years of Solitude tells...

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The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson-Book Review.

“Normally seven minutes of another person's company was enough to give her a headache so she set things up to live as a recluse. She was...

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An Island by Karen Jennings-Book Review.

“We have been meek, all of us, and what has our meekness brought us? We have lost our land and ourselves. With meekness we accepted the...

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Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov- Book Review.

“He broke my heart. You merely broke my life.” Notably controversial, this is an upsetting, tragic book with beautiful writing about...

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Second Place by Rachel Cusk- Book Review.

"Why do we live so painfully in our fictions? Why do we suffer so, from the things we ourselves have invented? Do you understand it,...

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Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain- Book Review.

"Don't think of introversion as something that needs to be cured". This is one of my favourite non-fiction books I've read so far. As an...

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Normal People by Sally Rooney | Book Review.

“Not for the first time Marianne thinks cruelty does not only hurt the victim, but the perpetrator also, and maybe more deeply and more...

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A Gentleman In Moscow by Amor Towles- Book Review.

"If a man does not master his circumstances then he is bound to be mastered by them." "What matters in life is not whether we receive a...