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Shaping the Digital Enterprise: Trends and Use Cases in Digital Innovation and Transformation: 2016

Gerhard Oswald, Schreckling Edward and Michael Kleinemeier

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This book sheds light on cross-industry and industry-specific trends in today's digital economy....

Borders, Conflict Zones, and Memory: Scholarly Engagements with Luisa Passerini

Donna R. Gabaccia and Franca Iacovetta

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This volume pays tribute to Luisa Passerini, whose scholarship has had a major impact on feminist...

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Francis Spufford | 2021 | Contemporary, Fiction & Poetry, History & Politics

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Thanks to NetGalley and Faber and Faber for the advanced copy of this book

I'm always very hit or miss when it comes to literary fiction and unfortunately for me, this was a miss! The concept sounded so intriguing and I was instantly intrigued to read it and I really wanted to love it but it just didn't hit home for me. This is a reimagining of what a group of characters lives could have been like had they not died in an explosion as children but with this happening at the very beginning of the book I had no time to get attached to any of the characters maybe if the explosion was revealed at the end after spending the time getting invested it may have struck home for me better. This book is basically all about the characters but I just didn't care about any of them I enjoyed finding out what they were getting up to at each stage but I didn't care about what actually happened to them. One thing I liked was how it portrayed different people at the same stage in life living completely different lives with completely different problems showing how not everyone travels through life at the same pace. All in all just not for me but I'm sure some other people will absolutely love it.