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Two longish darkly comic short stories about small-minded people whose lack of imagination & trust in others leaves them in tragedy of one kind or another.
These pieces sit somewhere between Chekhov & Elena Ferrante. I dug them.
"If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the …
It's probably the closest we'll get to a proper memoir out of a very interesting & likeable guy, who's utterly unique in the publishing world.
Regardless of whether you are a fan of his actual output or not, you can't question his consistency, and as far as his style and approach to writing, he keeps it simple and straightforward, which for a beginning writer is really useful. And like all Stephen King works, it's an easy read that keeps moving.
Aging and reclusive Hollywood movie icon Evelyn Hugo is finally ready to tell the truth …
It's a fun, breezy read, even if it does bog down a tetch toward the end as it ties up some loose ends, but there's clearly a Blanchett ot a Streep or a Julianne Moore or someone who's gonna win an Oscar for playing the title role in the movie adaptation.
In 2025, with the world descending into madness and anarchy, one woman begins a fateful …
If you have the stomach to read a book about how to survive an apocalypse right now, this is a banger. As created literary religions go, Earthseed is better than most, and Lauren Olamina is just such a well-written, thoughtful character.
A sweeping and lyrical novel that follows a young Palestinian refugee as she slowly becomes …
Just excellently executed, and engaging the whole way through. I loved it.