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Lucy’s 2024 Year in Books
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Review of Joshua Cohen, The Netanyahus
My uncle died last week. He was the Canadian-born second son of his family of Jewish refugees, his parents and my father, who made their way from Czechoslovakia to Sherbrooke Quebec in the middle of World War II. I should be writing a eulogy for his funeral next weekend, but instead I am writing this, even though I haven’t done a review here in years, and everyone else who wanted to, read this boo
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"‘Once, a long time ago, I made a vow,’ Shika said. ‘That I would find Yoshimori and restore him to the throne. But then the mask became fused to my face and I felt I was condemned to live out my life outside human society, like an animal in the fores"
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Algernon (Darth Anyan)'s review
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Lord of the Darkwood (Tale of Shikanoko, #3):
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When she had first seen him she had recalled the heron dancers. Now he danced with the deer – they all did – and in the dance created the ties that bind Heaven and Earth, humans and animal, the living and the dead. Anthony Powell dances to the music" Read more of this review » |
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| Still a perfect series. I forgot until I reread this book that the Shiranoko books are effectively a prequel for the Otori books. | |
"Edit: Just prefacing this review with something I believe should be obvious, but apparently is not to the vast majority: I DO NOT condone senselessly hating on any author. If your criticism comes from a place of personal malice toward the author, bes"
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Even better than the Tales of the Otori series. Reread: when I read the series the first time, I read them out of order. Good to begin at the beginning. Amazing books. |
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| Brilliant and beautifully written. There’s a reason she won a Nobel. The stories, of a fashion journalist who befriends an old woman, and then falls in love with a married men are strikingly current, in the main, despite some dated elements. Depressi ...more | |
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s.penkevich [hiatus-will return-miss you all]'s review
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The English Understand Wool:
"Everyone loves a good story, but nobody loves a story of high-profile trauma quite like agents who want to sell that story to the world. Helen DeWitt’s novella, The English Understand Wool, is a brief but uproarious criticism of profits and publishin"
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