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| A couple in 1920s Alaska build a girl out of snow and she comes to life---or does she? This is the big question of much of the novel. I felt empathy for the lonely and struggling main couple, Mabel and Jack. The writing is beautiful, gorgeous, and de...more | |
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Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
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| I both loved and loathed this book. I found Strayed incessantly whiny, yet insightful and interesting. All I can say is I'm torn. One warning: there is an extremely graphic scene described about a dying horse that haunted me for about a week, so if y...more | |
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“Now death is uncool, old-fashioned. To my mind the defining characteristic of our era is spin, everything tailored to vanishing point by market research, brands and bands manufactured to precise specifications; we are so used to things transmuting into whatever we would like them to be that it comes as a profound outrage to encounter death, stubbornly unspinnable, only and immutably itself.”
― Tana French, In The Woods
― Tana French, In The Woods
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