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Leave the World Behind
While reading this book, I kept thinking, “did Rumaan Alam think his book would be so timely when he was writing it?” The topics of race, class, and family would have been enough to make this a very 2020 book but how could anyone have known that a book that discussed those topics AND a…
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The Glass Hotel
There are authors out there that write books that require contemplation when finished. They require thought and analysis and ask the reader to think about what they just read. Emily St. John Mandel is one such author. Whenever I read her books, I think “this is how books should be written.” The problem with “The…
The Spinster Librarian 