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REVIEW: Em
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2y ago
"The word em refers to the little brother or little sister in a family; or the younger of two friends; or the woman in a couple. I like to think that the word em is the homonym of the verb aimer, “to love,” in French, in the imperative: aime." Em is a heartwrenching and heartwarming story about the Vietnam War and its aftermath, told through short vignettes and following a small cast of characters back and forth in time. It makes a person feel furious and hopeless about the fact of war. This is a short book with short chapters and beautiful prose, which makes it a ..read more
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REVIEW: Fault Lines
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2y ago
 “Maybe in all those years of happy marriage, Tatsu thought that Nice Wife Mizuki was the Real Me and was disappointed when the fault lines started to appear.”   The expectations for marriages in Japanese culture are clear - the Japanese characters for wife translate as “inside the house”; the characters for husband to “the main person”.  Mizuki doesn’t fit the mold. It’s sad that she sometimes wishes she had never lived in New York, because then she wouldn’t know that women could be the protagonists in their own lives, and maybe she would be satisfied with being a wife and moth ..read more
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REVIEW: The Remains of the Day
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2y ago
This short novel follows Stevens as he crosses the English countryside for six days in the guise of recruiting a former housekeeper to return to Darlington Hall, where they were formerly colleagues. Along the way, he muses about his lifelong career and the choices he made, and wondering if things might have turned out differently. Stevens is an old school English butler who has spent his career aspiring to be a "great" butler. In order to achieve this, he has designed strict rules of comportment that he must follow at all times, at the expense of showing emotion and connecting with other peopl ..read more
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REVIEW: Fight Night by Miriam Toews
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2y ago
I love Miriam Toews’ characters. The point-of-view of 9-year-old Swiv who lives with her pregnant mother and hypertensive grandmother is funny and endearing. The novel is a letter to her father who disappeared. I really loved the way “big words” that Sviv learns from overhearing the adults are in italics - she talks like an adult, but she doesn’t understand everything she is saying. Swiv worries that her mother will kill herself like her grandfather and aunt did. She worries for her unborn sibling, “Gord”. She worries that her Grandma will die. She looks after Grandma by cutting up paper ..read more
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REVIEW: In Polite Company
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2y ago
 Happy Publication Day! Simons (pronounced Simmons) grew up in Charleston, SC, with a family name that put her in the center of a high society bound by long-standing and complicated rules. She is torn between her love of her culture and traditions, and her social justice conscience. She adores her dying grandmother, who holds a secret that Simons may never uncover. Parts of this debut novel are written almost like an instruction manual for outsiders - “people from Off” - to understand the inner workings of Charleston aristocracy. It’s fascinating and unsettling. What makes the novel en ..read more
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REVIEW: Never Let Me Go
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2y ago
This book is not for the squeamish, but I highly recommend it. I found the narrator, Kathy H., and her friends Tommy and Ruth, authentic and endearing, even though Ruth was somewhat a mean girl. They grew up at Hailsham, a boarding school somewhere in an alternate reality English countryside. Kathy reminisces about their school days, and there is something a bit off about their experiences and the way they understand their lives. It is what is in store for the students after Hailsham that caused me so much discomfort. Such a sad story and a hard novel to read. It is no wonder Ishiguro won a No ..read more
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REVIEW: Paperback Crush
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2y ago
There have been times in my life when I had total reading freedom. In my teens, I probably averaged a book a day, and reading was a completely immersive experience. I don’t even know how many nights I stayed up until dawn to finish a book. Sometimes pictures or sounds will trigger memories, and the cover of this book is instant nostalgia. It makes me think “Hey, I read that book!” even though it is not an actual book cover, just designed to emulate the covers of teen books from the 80s and 90s. The book is divided into seven chapters, based on the genre of books each one explores. I definitel ..read more
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REVIEW: The History of Love
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3y ago
I love it when a book surprises me and is so much better than I hoped. ⁠ The two point of view characters in this book are fourteen-year-old Alma and eighty-something Leo Gursky. One or both may be an unreliable narrator. They don’t know each other, but a book being translated by Alma’s mother will bring them together. The structure of the novel is unique. It is all very quirky and odd. There is a book within a book. Alma’s chapters are numbered lists. One of the POV characters has a very abrupt way of talking. And yet. But. The characters are very endearing to me and I got very emotional when ..read more
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REVIEW: Run by Ann Patchett
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3y ago
 Ann Patchett has been on my TBR for a really long time. Her books get a lot of attention, but this one stayed under the radar. I just loved this story. I found it very readable and engaging. The characters and the setting were so real, even if the plot wasn’t entirely realistic. Tip and Teddy were adopted as two black babies into an Irish Catholic family in Boston. They have led an idyllic life, but things change overnight when they meet Tennessee and Kenya, a mother and daughter who live in the housing projects a couple of blocks away from the Doyles. This was one of those books I woul ..read more
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