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Jee’s 2021 Year in Books
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Jee Leong Koh
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BOX HILL by Adam Mars-Jones
I venture that to understand the protagonist Colin, and thus the novel, it takes one to know one, or else someone with a large empathy. As Colin explains it:
"Well, Ray's charisma was real, and I wasn't the only one to feel it. But I went along with it. It's only exaggerating a little to say that I knew what I as doing when I fell over those long and insolently extended legs. I was ready. I had no
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Steep Tea
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The Pillow Book
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2012
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Payday Loans
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2007
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Equal to the Earth
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2009
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Seven Studies for a Self Portrait
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2011
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Connor & Seal
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Snow at 5 PM
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Bite Harder: Open Letters and Close Readings
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Inspector Inspector
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I venture that to understand the protagonist Colin, and thus the novel, it takes one to know one, or else someone with a large empathy. As Colin explains it: "Well, Ray's charisma was real, and I wasn't the only one to feel it. But I went along with i ...more |
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| A Cubist painting of a book—the many sides of the underbelly of London are laid out flat and side-by-side for an almost clinical analysis. | |
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| The stories suffer from the a common defect of the genre, too much exposition, leaving too little room for complex character development or nuanced human interactions. A number of the conceits are very imaginative, as in the various transformations o ...more | |
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| Some interesting inventions, but the whole is weakened by a too-insistent didacticism about human greed and violence, and the cyclical pattern of human history. | |
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| I read a story collection by Eka Kurniawan, and enjoyed it very much, and so I was looking forward to reading this novel by him. It's very different. The supernatural element is here too, and so are the richly observed details of life in a small rura ...more | |
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| A richly observed coming-of-age tale. If the plot is quite simple and straightforward, I still like the slight twist of having the adoption of a child, and not the choice of a husband, be the trigger for maturation. It's a different take on the age-o ...more | |
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A rousing historical narrative, impassioned, clear-sighted, and deeply knowledgeable. About the British effort at the abolition of slavery in the latter half of the 1780's: "It was the miraculous growth of San Domingo that was decisive. Pitt found that ...more |
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| A gem of a book. Multifaceted, rounded, sparkly, and mysterious. | |
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| A book that strives to capture something of the incoherence of life, and it succeeds to a certain extent, but I go to art for coherence. Life is incoherent enough for me. Thought not sufficiently apprehended sensuously. | |
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Jul 19, 2009 08:47PM
I got my copy of Equal to the Earth and have had time to read it. Very impressive work. I particularly liked the Fire Island series at the end and specially the last stanza of 7. Fire Island. I guess that's what we all hope for. And the poem Floor Tiling where the “two designs coexisted.“ Each of your books has seemed to me to be a step ahead, a progression; more concentrated and therefore increasingly interesting to read. So I enjoyed Equal to the Earth very much and am waiting for the next.
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Thanks, Abha, for your kind comment on my ghazals. What is your native tongue? Abha wrote: "hi,
went to your blog and was blown away by your ghazals. first time i actually enjoyed english ghazals, usually they lack something for me, since i write them in my native tongue. try to.
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hi,went to your blog and was blown away by your ghazals. first time i actually enjoyed english ghazals, usually they lack something for me, since i write them in my native tongue. try to.
Thanks! This is helping me to understand the book better. It's our book club selection this month, and I'm trying to like it.I can't tell beyond your three stars whether you liked it or not, but perhaps it doesn't matter so much. It's a good book. It just prbably isn't for me.
