Disorienting and dreamlike, this is a novel that can only be understood in its own reality. Characters morph in person and in role, background plots shift to new contexts, new meanings, and entirely incompatible yet simultaneously real truths exist. All these are grounded and tied together through the use of repetition, the White Bus circling Seoul, the body between the ceiling and roof, The Blind Owl.
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Emily McLean rated This is how it always is: 5 stars
This is how it always is by Laurie Frankel
"This is how a family keeps a secret...and how that secret ends up keeping them. This is how a family …
Emily McLean rated I Know What You Did Last Summer: 4 stars
Emily McLean rated Moonstone: The Boy Who Never Was: A Novel: 4 stars
Moonstone: The Boy Who Never Was: A Novel by Sjon, Victoria Cribb, Sjón
Reykjavik, 1918. The eruptions of the Katla volcano darken the sky night and day. Yet despite the natural disaster, the …
Emily McLean rated Before the coffee gets cold: 5 stars
Before the coffee gets cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
[Fiction / Fantasy / Contemporary] What would you change if you could go back in time?
In a small back …
Emily McLean reviewed Unknown Night and Day by Bae Suah
Review of 'Unknown Night and Day' on 'Storygraph'
4 stars
Disorienting and dreamlike, this is a novel that can only be understood in its own reality. Characters morph in person and in role, background plots shift to new contexts, new meanings, and entirely incompatible yet simultaneously real truths exist. All these are grounded and tied together through the use of repetition, the White Bus circling Seoul, the body between the ceiling and roof, The Blind Owl.
Emily McLean rated Convenience Store Woman: 4 stars
Convenience Store Woman by Ginny Tapley Takemori, 村田沙耶香
Keiko Furukura had always been considered a strange child, and her parents always worried how she would get on in …
Emily McLean rated Tale for the Time Being: 4 stars
Ruth Ozeki: Tale for the Time Being (2019, Canongate Books)
Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
In Tokyo, sixteen-year-old Nao has decided there's only one escape from her aching loneliness and her classmates' bullying. But before …
Emily McLean rated Heartstopper: 5 stars
Hannah Arendt: Eichmann in Jerusalem : a report on the banality of evil (2006, Penguin Books, Limited)
Eichmann in Jerusalem : a report on the banality of evil by Hannah Arendt
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil is a 1963 book by political theorist Hannah Arendt. Arendt, …
Emily McLean rated Tokyo Ueno Station: 4 stars
Emily McLean rated The Memory Police: 4 stars
The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa
**2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST
A haunting Orwellian novel about the terrors of state surveillance, from the acclaimed author of …
Emily McLean rated Death of Democracy: 5 stars
Death of Democracy by Benjamin Carter Hett
"A riveting account of how the Nazi Party came to power and how the failures of the Weimar Republic and …
Emily McLean rated Strange Beasts of China: 5 stars
Emily McLean rated Pale Fire (Penguin Modern Classics): 4 stars
Pale Fire (Penguin Modern Classics) by Vladimir Nabokov
A 999 line poem in heroic couplets, divided into 4 cantos, was composed--according to Nabokov's fiction--by John Francis Shade, an …