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reviewed Binge: 60 Stories to Make Your Head Feel Different by Douglas Coupland

Douglas Coupland: Binge (2021, Random House of Canada) 4 stars

Review of 'Binge' on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

I love Coupland. I own all of his books. But I know that a few of those are just sorta ok. This one is his best since a Girlfriend in a Coma (which is one of my top three books of all time). These tiny, interconnected character studies are bite sized moments of brilliant writing. So evocative. So fun. Surprising. Really refreshing read from a favorite author who can still do it!

reviewed There There by Tommy Orange

Tommy Orange: There There (2019, Vintage) 4 stars

Review of 'There There' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

Great characters, though they're a lot of them which is hard to keep track of for me. The writing is wonderful. I feel like the connections to get me and discovered made this book, but could have been done without one storyline being included. That just felt extraneous.