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WendyAebi

WendyAebi

Joined April 2016

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Never Let Me Go | Kazuo Ishiguro
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I read this on an 8-hour flight, and even being packed in with 300 strangers, I could not stop myself from crying at the end. Incredibly moving and well written. One of the 10 best books I've read, ever.

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The Mothers: A Novel | Brit Bennett
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Just stunning. The literal and figurative emptiness of the main characters is going to stay with me for a long while. I wouldn't want to be friends with them, but I do kind of want to give them a good hug.

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When a graphic novel gives you all the feels.

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The Devourers | Indra Das
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Read this one on @Liberty 's recommendation from an All The Books podcast and it smooth blew my mind. I can only describe her writing as hypnotic--constant references to, shall we say, territory marking notwithstanding--and the ending left me speechless. WHAT JUST HAPPENED?!

Chessa So. Much. Pee. 😂 8y
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The Remains of the Day | Kazuo Ishiguro
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💔 I love me some road-not-taken regret!

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The Remains of the Day | Kazuo Ishiguro
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This book has just about convinced me to read every book that's ever won the Man Booker Prize. (This is the 1989 winner.) It was simultaneously poignant, subtle and heartbreaking. I loved it!

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Didn't like this one; the Downton Abbey tie-in did not work for me at all. The character development was totally on the nose. Each character had about 3 assigned characteristics that defined them up until the last couple of chapters, when all flaws were corrected just in time for the happy ending.

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Destroying my copy of Pride and Prejudice landed Mr Tumnus in juvie. @Liberty

Liberty 💕💕💕 8y
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Picked this one to fill the "from the bottom of the TBR pile" square in book bingo. I was reading Big Magic at the same time, so this fictional story of the way an artist's art mirrors her changes in life dove-tailed and made both books even more enjoyable.

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Troubles | J.G. Farrell
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Published in 1970; won the lost Man Booker Prize. My first foray into Irish historical fiction. It was very well-written and I enjoyed it, but I don't feel compelled to finish the trilogy.

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Boston Girl | Anita Diamant
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What is it about this book?? It's wildly different from The Red Tent; it's written in straightforward, no-frills language; it's very much an immigrant in America/the times they are a-changin' trope, and the plot and characters aren't complex. But I loved every bit of it.