Category: Book Review: Fiction
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The Blue Tent
A mysterious blue tent appears in the garden, with multiple people emerging from it, claiming it as their own. But whose is it? Is it even there?
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Animals Eat Each Other
“I’m pretty sure the meaning of life is about sex. Otherwise, why do we suffer so much for it? Why do guys get jobs they hate? Why do men marry women they don’t like? Why do girls do the stupid shit they do? Why do they all seem so fucking unhappy?”
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A Right Royal Face-Off
A satire of one of England’s greatest portrait painters, Thomas Gainsborough.
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Never Greener
“We spend most of our lives wishing we were somewhere else or someone else, or looking forward or harping back. Always thinking the grass is greener on the other side. But it never is. It’s still grass. Just a different patch of it, that’s all.”
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The Native Commissioner
“If you could read the secret history of your enemies, you should find in each man’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostilities.”
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The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared
“People could behave how they liked, but Allan considered that in general it was quite unnecessary to be grumpy if you had the chance not to.”
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The Little Paris Book Shop
“Reading—an endless journey; a long, indeed never-ending journey that made one more temperate as well as more loving and kind.”
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