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The Maris Review, vol 86
What I read this week Possession by A.S. Byatt I first tried to read A.S. Byatt's Booker Prize-winning novel about all kinds of intrigue in academia when I was in high school. What a bad idea. So much of the book is about the tedium of
The Maris Review, vol 85
What I read this week The Sisters by Jonas Hassen Khemiri What if The Virgin Suicides was narrated by only one neighborhood boy, and it was more about the boy than the Lisbon sisters, and the neighborhood boy's name was Jeffrey Eugenides? The Sisters is a story of
The Maris Review, vol 84
What I read this week The White Hot by Quiara Alegría Hudes I'm not going to be able to do this one justice. I usually try to listen to the audio version of books in which the prose isn't the main thing. I save the plot-heavy
The Maris Review, vol 83
It's anticipation time... What I read this week What We Can Know by Ian McEwan When I say What We Can Know is Ian McEwan's best novel since Atonement, I should admit that I haven't been meticulous about keeping up. I believe I had