On a deal for 99p. Have heard a lot about this, it’s a journalistic work on the refugee crisis.
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Read and loved this creepy book last year. Definitely worth 99 pennies.
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Oh nice, always meant to read it, and now I can at least have it sitting in my library!
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And the brilliant Prayer For Owen Meaney too:
Ah i loved this book but i was much younger when i read it and have always wondered if it holds up. Might repurchase
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I just want to say that I fucking hated this book. Just dreadful stuff.
I read it for an online book club thing and it was before I was okay with giving up on books so I made my way through it. (I guess also, I do sometimes find that tedious books like this can have endings that are good. I wasn’t really sure about the ending here. It is clever and plotted but the bulk of the book isn’t really like that. White Teeth has a similar thing, a sort of meandering tedious narrative and then this weird ending that almost felt like it came out of a thriller.)
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Still one of my favourite books of all time! Read it 4-5 times. I love it, despite one aspect of it (no spoilers) doesn’t sit right with me.
Which reminds me, have we ever done a top 10 books thing. I know it’s a cliche and so on, but I am always interested in these, discovering new books as well as finding others who love what I do.
Done various things like that. They may have been deleted also. @Mert_Aksac is the sort of man who likes to arrange big favourite book list things.
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not exactly but close enough
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As if I read!
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I used to have a favourite book but then I re-read it last year and discovered half of it is quite problematic now.
hate when that happens. what was it?
No literary great:
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Oh a crossover post.
Just looked this up and ding ding ding! It’s a 99p deal
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Emily St John Mandel - The Glass Hotel
I’ve liked the three books I’ve read of hers so far, and so this daily deal is an insta-buy for me.
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Definitely the weakest of the three (Station Eleven to Tranquility) for me but the big crossover with Sea of Tranquility adds a lot.
Yeah, I’m looking forward to reading it for the Tranquility link. Will make it my next book I read, whilst Tranquility is still vaguely familiar in my mind from last year’s read.
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