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fakeplastictrees rated Impending Blindness of Billie Scott: 4 stars
Impending Blindness of Billie Scott by Zoe Thorogood
Billie Scott is an artist.
Her debut gallery exhibition opens in a few months.
Within a fortnight she'll be completely …
fakeplastictrees rated Burial rites: 4 stars
Burial rites by Hannah Kent
Set against Iceland's stark landscape, this story evokes a dramatic existence in a distant tme and place. Here the author …
fakeplastictrees rated Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands: 5 stars
Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton
Before there was Kate Beaton, New York Times bestselling cartoonist of Hark A Vagrant fame, there was Katie Beaton of …
fakeplastictrees rated What We Talk About When We Talk About Love: 5 stars
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver
In his second collection of stories, as in his first, Carver's characters are peripheral people--people without education, insight or prospects, …
fakeplastictrees rated Ernest Hemingway on Writing: 4 stars
fakeplastictrees rated Come Closer: 4 stars
Come Closer by Sara Gran
Astonishly addictive, genuinely frightening
Amanda loves her life, her converted loft apartment and her job as an architect. On the …
fakeplastictrees rated The turn of the screw: 2 stars
fakeplastictrees rated Normal People: 4 stars
Normal People by Sally Rooney, Sally Rooney
Rubbish. A quarter of it is love scenes. Very steamy like fifty shades of grey
fakeplastictrees rated Our Wives under the Sea: 5 stars
fakeplastictrees rated The Historian: 5 stars
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
To you, perceptive reader, I bequeath my history....Late one night, exploring her father's library, a young woman finds an ancient …
fakeplastictrees rated Gyo: 4 stars
fakeplastictrees rated The Faraway Nearby: 4 stars
The Faraway Nearby by Rebecca Solnit
A companion to "A Field Guide for Getting Lost" explores the ways that people construct lives from stories and connect …
fakeplastictrees rated Acceptance: 3 stars
fakeplastictrees rated Bright Dead Things: 3 stars
Bright Dead Things by Ada Limón
"Bright Dead Things examines the chaos that is life, the dangerous thrill of living in a world you know you …