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| A marvelous, dreamlike exploration of the Underground Railroad. Ta-Nehisi Coats tells the story of Hiram, a slave who becomes freed through the process of "Conduction" when he becomes involved with the Underground Railroad. It exceeds in all the ways ...more | |
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| A mix of Ottessa Moshfegh and Kari Russell, this collection of short stories is a little bit creepy and a little bit weird. I enjoyed it, though. | |
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| Why read a book recounting major things that happened in the Republican party over the last 12 years? Especially when you're someone like me, who spent that time editing coverage of the Republican party? What I didn't realize when I embarked on Tim ...more | |
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“Coffee was served: bitter and black, like chances missed.”
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“There had been a time, until 1422, when a number of both Gaelic and Anglo-Irish students attended Oxford and Cambridge in England. But fellow students had complained that Irish living together in large numbers sooner or later got noisy and violent and there was no handling them. Accordingly, the universities imposed a quota system on Irishman, and decreed that those admitted must be scattered around among non-compatriots: exclusively Irish halls of residence were banned.”
― Fractured Emerald: Ireland
― Fractured Emerald: Ireland
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