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Stephanie’s 2024 Year in Books
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Appropriately for the author ballsy enough to use the word "victor" ironically in an American YA series, said series ends with one long joyless victory - for Peetniss shippers, for the rebel districts of Panem, and pretty much everyone else. Don't le ...more |
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| I don’t believe in the accuracy of this depiction of the interior life of Thomas Cromwell for a second. But that hardly detracts from what is a towering achievement, a transformation of historical facts and figures at a time of wild political and cul ...more | |
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"Wolf Hall is the kind of book that gets better the more you think about it. Its protagonist is Thomas Cromwell: a villain in A Man for All Seasons but here a man with a family, a career, and a sharp way of thinking. He doesn't want to be a saint; he "
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" “It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires.”
― Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall  Brilliant. This is one of those rare novels that hits me on almost every level. The writing is cris" Read more of this review » |
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This review contains some spoilers. About a year ago I started a Jane Austen project, which has involved listening to the six major novels on audiobook, most of them narrated by Juliet Stevenson, who is simply wonderful at bringing Austen’s characters" Read more of this review » |
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| The critiques of the author—for being complicit in Facebook/Meta’s negative impacts on society—are fair. However, I found Wynn-Williams to be a mostly credible narrator. The things she describes are just too specific, bizarre, sad, and darkly funny t ...more | |
“Cynicism is what passes for insight among the mediocre.”
― Primary Colors
― Primary Colors
“If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.”
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“Literary truth is not the truth of the biographer or the reporter, it’s not a police report or a sentence handed down by a court. It’s not even the plausibility of a well-constructed narrative. Literary truth is entirely a matter of wording and is directly proportional to the energy that one is able to impress on the sentence. And when it works, there is no stereotype or cliché of popular literature that resists it. It reanimates, revives, subjects everything to its needs.”
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Thanks for the friend request and the book recommendation! I'm actually familiar with Okofor -- so far I've liked her short stories but not her novels.
TGWTMH is about 40 pages or less, so closer to one of her short stories probably.
If you read it, you'll have to let me know where it falls on the spectrum of the books of hers you've read.