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Difficult Loves

by Italo Calvino

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Pachinko

by Min Jin Lee

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Nancy said: " Could not stop reading this from the moment I picked it up. The reader is dropped in and out of Yanjin and Sunja's family through 4 generations. There's no happy ending. After all, life doesn't offer happy endings. Life is like Pachinko, the machines ...more "

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Whalefall

by Daniel Kraus (Goodreads Author)

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My Brilliant Friend (Neapolitan Novels, #1) by Elena Ferrante

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She was like that, she threw things off balance just to see if she could put them back in some other way.

The Prophet (Vintage International)

by Kahlil Gibran

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Severance

by Ling Ma

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“Our vanity, our self-love, promotes the cult of the genius,” Nietzsche said. “For if we think of genius as something magical, we are not obliged to compare ourselves and find ourselves lacking. . . . To call someone ‘divine’ means: ‘here there is no need to compete.”
― Angela Duckworth, Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance

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