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The Vanishing Half

Brit Bennett

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'The Vanishing Half is an utterly mesmerising novel. It seduces with its literary flair, surprises...

Zuky the BookBum (15 KP) rated There Will Come Soft Rains in Books

Mar 15, 2018

This is pretty cool, considering it was written in 1950. This is a story about an automated house doing all its programmed chores on a house not affected by the nuclear apocalypse that's left the entire world empty. With things like Amazon's Alexa and other AI things appearing on the market, you can imagine this is the way people will live their lives in the future, with fully automated houses.

This is quite a sad tale really. No matter how advanced our technologies become doesn't mean we're able to escape death and destruction.

<i>I'm sorry I'm bombarding you with short story reviews, I've just really got into them these past couple of days and you can find so many free online, via https://archive.org/ !! </i>

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Suswatibasu (1703 KP) rated Tangerine: A Novel in Books

Apr 1, 2018

Plain cruel

Call me a wimp, but I don't tend to enjoy books where terrible things happen to the protagonist without any proper resolution.

Alice Shipley, a rather meek woman, lives with her cocky husband in Tangiers, when one day a face from the past comes back to haunt her. Lucy Mason, her former roommate turns up at her doorstep with hidden motives.

This book has been described as similar to The Talented Mr Ripley, and in some ways, we can see how they converge. It is a psychological thriller including aspects of whether Alice can trust her mind, and if Lucy is just a bunny boiler - bringing together all the usual plots. I personally didn't relish this, because the conclusion fizzled out.

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Milleen (47 KP) rated All the Light We Cannot See in Books

Nov 14, 2018

All the Light We Cannot See

Anthony Doerr | 2015 | Fiction & Poetry, History & Politics

8.4

(14 Ratings)

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This is another novel from 2015 that just keeps gaining popularity. During World War II a blind, french girl, Marie-Laure is forced to flee Paris for Saint-Malo hiding a jewel from her father’s museum. At the same time we learn about a german orphan Werner Pfennig, naturally adept at fixing radios and enlisted to use his skills to fight and find the French Resistance. Doerr interweaves the two characters lives with skill and attention to detail. His prose is beautifully crafted, drawing you into the past with flair and aplomb. This book took ten years to write and every page shows that not a word was wasted, Doerr rightfully received the Pulitzer Prize for this tome. A beautiful novel that deserves your full attention.