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Chris Hooker (419 KP) rated Station Eleven in Books

Jan 12, 2018

Station Eleven

Emily St. John Mandel | 2015 | Fiction & Poetry, Science Fiction/Fantasy

7.9

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[Station Eleven] is a literary tale of the end of civilization. Unlike most of the novels about the post apocalyptic world [Emily St. John Mandel] weaves a story built of relationships. It would compare to a futuristic [Canterbury Tales] as it tells the tales of the survivors in this one band and their journey.

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The Classic Fairy Tales

Maria Tatar

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This Norton Critical Edition collects seven different tale types, including multicultural versions...

Alison Bechdel recommended Martin Bauman: Or, A Sure Thing in Books (curated)

"I love this book almost as much as I hate it. Martin, a thinly disguised version of Leavitt himself, describes the “brat pack” of young writers he was a part of in the New York literary scene of the mid-1980s. It’s sort of like watching a train wreck, fascinating and horrifying at once."

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Emily Mortimer recommended Lectures on Russian Literature in Books (curated)

Lectures on Russian Literature

Vladimir Nabokov | 1982 | Fiction & Poetry

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"Nabokov’s essays on Russian literature are brilliantly funny and iconoclastic. He loves Gogol and hates Dostoyevsky and accuses him of being like the worst kind of sensationalist, journalistic hack. “Dostoyevsky is not a great writer, but a rather mediocre one—with flashes of excellent humor, but, alas, with wastelands of literary platitudes in between.”"

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The Chocolate Lady (94 KP) rated The Summer Country in Books

Oct 5, 2020

Barbados isn’t on my bucket list of places I would like to visit, but thankfully, Willig gave me a virtual visit through this book. Take a look at my #bookreview of this novel to see if I found this literary vacation a pleasant one or not! https://tcl-bookreviews.com/2019/06/14/burning-in-barbados/