Category: book reviews

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Chang-rae Lee – Aloft

Chang-rae Lee’s prose is so lyrical, he could build grocery shopping up as the epicenter of a crisis in singularity, transform clipping toenails into an existential quandary, and make sorting the recycling a prophecy of something tragic in the Greek sense of the word.

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Arthur Phillips – The Tragedy of Arthur

No matter whether Shakespeare stirs your appreciation, dislike, or indifference, The Tragedy of Arthur is an engaging novel, blurring the borders between authenticity and forgery, and examining The Bard’s hold on Western culture.

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Haruki Murakami – After Dark

In After Dark, Murakami masterfully concocts a tale of everyday minutiae with a healthy splash of fantastical suspense, topped off with a twist of hard-boiled crime, and garnished with some supernatural angst – shaken, not stirred.

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Stefne Miller – Salvaged

Attie is an ordinary teenage girl — very witty, smart and very much afraid. As the first book of two, Salvaged tells the story of how she gets closer to God, to her family and to a boy she wants to love.