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Gone Tonight By: Sarah Pekkanen
A layered story of a daughter trying to figure out her mother’s past and where she came from. From the beginning I was hooked. This story started out with a bang. I could see the author putting together a complicated web. I think I audibly gasped when twists were revealed. About 3/4 the way through…
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Off the Air By: Christina Estes
A reporter tries to catch the scoop without crossing lines and while reporting fairly. Can she come out on top and solve the mystery? To put it simply, this book wasn’t for me. I couldn’t connect with the characters. I don’t have much empathy for reporters. Especially as the author preached about being neutral, no…
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Babel, or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators’ Revolution By: R.F. Kuang
Babel is a wanna-be intellectual’s dream and an actual intellectual’s nightmare. I fall into the former, so I loved it. Set in England’s victorian days the reader follows Robin Swift, a translator student in Oxford, as he grapples with the realities of the world. This story has layers. The author flexes her knowledge, education and…
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