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Jee’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Jee’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
Jee Leong Koh’s Followers (188)
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Jee Leong Koh
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Kiran Desai's THE LONELINESS OF SONIA AND SUNNY
It is a novel about family as much as it is about romantic love, a novel about art-making as much as it is about immigration, a novel about dispossession as much as it is about privilege, a novel about ghosts as much as it is about the living. As Sonia the fiction writer asks and answers herself, "What united these wayward stories? The ocean. When she swam, she felt swimming beneath her in the dep
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Steep Tea
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2015
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Payday Loans
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2007
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3 editions
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The Pillow Book
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2012
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Equal to the Earth
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2009
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Seven Studies for a Self Portrait
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2011
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Snow at 5 PM
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The Pillow Book: English-Japanese Illustrated Edition マクラノソウシ（日本語・英語イラスト入り版）
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Connor & Seal
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2020
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Inspector Inspector
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Bite Harder: Open Letters and Close Readings
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| It is a novel about family as much as it is about romantic love, a novel about art-making as much as it is about immigration, a novel about dispossession as much as it is about privilege, a novel about ghosts as much as it is about the living. As Son ...more | |
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| I read the novel quickly in two sittings, even though it is not terribly well written. The plot is only serviceable, the characters are cardboard thin, and the writing is merely functional. I kept reading to the end, even though the ending was disapp ...more | |
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| I admire the vast amount of research distilled into a charming story. The (gender) politics is embedded more organically in the narrative than in the author's previous fiction collection LION CITY. Perhaps because of its genre—historical fantasy—I th ...more | |
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| An acute account of Morocco's transition to modernity and independence as depicted through a well-to-do family living in the ancient capital of Fez. The earlier chapters, which establish the seemingly static world of the past, were too leisurely pace ...more | |
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| A very moving and beautifully written memoir about loving someone who suffers from clinical depression. | |
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| A really enjoyable read. I especially appreciate the weaving of the writings of Moroccans into the fascinating story of Matisse in the country, so we get to see not only Matisse's view of the country, but also the country's view, so to speak, of Mati ...more | |
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| [Full disclosure: the author, a friend, sent me a copy of her book.] These stories have angles sharp as elbows and tones dark as Victorian gothic, though they are also composed musically and set in modern America. Conceits are fleshed out into living ...more | |
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After reading this book, I cannot read this book blurb as any play but parody: "Mullen's parodies reconceive the African American's relation to the English language and Anglophone writing, through textual reproduction, recombining the genetic structur ...more |
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George
Jul 19, 2009 08:47PM
I got my copy of Equal to the Earth and have had time to read it. Very impressive work. I particularly liked the Fire Island series at the end and specially the last stanza of 7. Fire Island. I guess that's what we all hope for. And the poem Floor Tiling where the “two designs coexisted.“ Each of your books has seemed to me to be a step ahead, a progression; more concentrated and therefore increasingly interesting to read. So I enjoyed Equal to the Earth very much and am waiting for the next.
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Thanks, Abha, for your kind comment on my ghazals. What is your native tongue? Abha wrote: "hi,
went to your blog and was blown away by your ghazals. first time i actually enjoyed english ghazals, usually they lack something for me, since i write them in my native tongue. try to.
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hi,went to your blog and was blown away by your ghazals. first time i actually enjoyed english ghazals, usually they lack something for me, since i write them in my native tongue. try to.
Thanks! This is helping me to understand the book better. It's our book club selection this month, and I'm trying to like it.I can't tell beyond your three stars whether you liked it or not, but perhaps it doesn't matter so much. It's a good book. It just prbably isn't for me.
