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NanaCat

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4. I've read quite a few of these
Wed Mar 20, 2024, 03:59 PM
Mar 2024

And it seems to be a mixed bag.

First of all, most of them are quite new. And that's a problem, given that several books of greater age are far more emotional. But never mind that.

I'll agree with Kite Runner, Thousand Splendid Suns and The Nightingale. Some of the others make no sense, though.

A bunch of the others make me wonder if I read the same book they did, and I keep asking myself if they confused what books they were reading with other works by the same writer. Like Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go, but not Remains of the Day. Or One Hundred Years of Solitude, but not Love in the Time of Cholera.

And I'm gobsmacked that someone actually put The Hiding Place on anything but a potential 70s TV movie of the week list, and left off the far more visceral Diary of Anne Frank. That's just...blasphemy.

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