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A collection of darkly compelling tales from the unique imagination of Joyce Carol Oates. A young...
How to Measure a Cow
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"Compelling...taut and suspenseful". (Guardian). Tara Fraser has a secret. Desperate to escape...
Intuition
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A charismatic doctor and a rigorous scientist are co-directors of a cancer research lab. They demand...
Golden Hill
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New York, a small town on the tip of Manhattan Island, 1746. One rainy evening, a charming and...
Words of Radiance: Part Two
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Brandon Sanderson's Stormlight Archive moves into a new, darker phase and in this, the second part...
Detroit
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When Sharon and Kenny move into a long-empty house in the suburbs of an American city, they are...
One of Us: The Story of a Massacre and its Aftermath
Sarah Death and Åsne Seierstad
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On 22 July 2011 Anders Behring Breivik killed 77 of his fellow Norwegians in a terrorist atrocity...
I Am Sam (2001)
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"I Am Sam" is the compelling story of Sam Dawson (Sean Penn), a mentally-challenged father raising...
Black Skin, White Masks
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The explosion will not happen today. It is too soon ...or too late. First published in English in...
Melanie Caldicott (6 KP) rated The Woman Who Went to Bed for a Year in Books
Apr 29, 2021
This is an interesting book which raised lots of questions for me but didn't reach any conclusions. Why are we here? What it feels like to be taken for granted. How we often settle for second-best in life.
There is a lot of sadness in the characters of this book, centring around the melancholy of Eva. Yet Townsend peppers her book with plenty of chuckles to keep the book enjoyable and compelling