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Marlon James recommended Palomar in Books (curated)

 
Palomar
Palomar
Gilbert Hernandez | 2003 | Comics & Graphic Novels
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"I sometimes wonder if I’m the only person to realize that the collected Palomar stories, from one half of Los Bros Hernandez, adds up to the finest American novel of the past 30 years?"

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Marina Abramovic recommended The Castle in Books (curated)

 
The Castle
The Castle
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"Kafka’s unfinished novel features so many lives and so many different moments from the development of our society. Its lessons can be applied to the cultural and political moment we live in right now."

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While this book has a lot going for it, there were also some problems. Take a look at my #bookreview to find out what I liked and didn't like about this novel.
  
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    A Tale of Two Cities

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    DescriptionA Tale of Two Cities is an 1859 historical novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and...

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Mothergamer (1568 KP) created a post

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http://mg28-mothergamer.blogspot.com/2022/10/strawberry-vinegar-cute-story-about.html I received a game code from Ratalaika Games to play the cute visual novel Strawberry Vinegar. The Mothergamer review of the game is up.
     
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Suswatibasu (1703 KP) rated The Fishermen in Books

Oct 10, 2017 (Updated Oct 10, 2017)  
The Fishermen
The Fishermen
Jon Gray, Chigozie Obioma | 2016 | Fiction & Poetry
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A heartbreaking elegy to Nigeria's lost promise
A beautiful and deeply tragic story exploring a family's secrets based in Nigeria. The novel follows four brothers in a small Nigerian village who are given a violent prophecy which shakes their family to the core.

Like most classic African novels in the Achebe-Ngugi tradition, The Fishermen mixes the traditional English novel form with the oral storytelling tradition, dramatising the conflict between the traditional and the modern. It is rather depressing but poignant.