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Half a Lifelong Romance

Eileen Chang and Karen Kingsbury

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From one of twentieth-century China's greatest writers and the author of Lust, Caution, this is an...

Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder: Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

Evelyn Waugh

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Brideshead Revisited is Evelyn Waugh's stunning novel of duty and desire set amongst the decadent,...

The Divine Comedy

Dante

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Robin Kirkpatrick's masterful verse translation of The Divine Comedy, tracing Dante's journey from...

The Country Between Us

Carolyn Forche

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Carolyn Forché’s The Country Between Us bears witness to what she saw in El Salvador in the late...

Erika (17789 KP) rated Shakespeare's Sonnets, Retold in Books

Nov 21, 2018

I received a copy of this book courtesy of the Penguin First to Read program in exchange for an honest review.
I remember in high school that Shakespeare was the bane of my existence. For some reason, high schools in the US only choose to have you read Romeo and Juliet (woof). I had read a few sonnets then, just for fun, and was completely befuddled.
Luckily, this book has come along. The format is great, the original sonnet is on one page, and the reinterpretation is on the other. I thought the first section of procreation sonnets was... bizarre and I hope I never read them again. I enjoyed the 'Dark Lady' sonnets at the end. This book is definitely a must-read if you've ever been interested in the sonnets, but can't wade through the original text with ease.

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Caffeinated Zombie (3374 KP) rated How Green This Land, How Blue This Sea in Books

Jan 9, 2019

How Green This Land, How Blue This Sea

Mira Grant | 2013 | Dystopia, Humor & Comedy, Science Fiction/Fantasy

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Description from Mira Grant's website: Post-Rising Australia can be a dangerous place, especially if you’re a member of the government-sponsored Australia Conservation Corps, a group of people dedicated to preserving their continent’s natural wealth until a cure can be found. Between the zombie kangaroos at the fences and the zombie elephant seals turning the penguin rookery at Prince Phillip Island into a slaughterhouse, the work of an animal conservationist is truly never done–and is often done at the end of a sniper rifle.

This novella is part of the newsflesh trilogy and explores how Australia would deal with a zombie outbreak. The answer is they would not bat an eyelid. This book is hilarious, well written and we get more of an insight into Mahir as he investigate's a story in Australia.