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Six Degrees of Separation

A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan

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This is one of the books that my partner is reading for his book club at work (the first book being Orhan Pamuk’s Snow), and I thought it would be fun to read the same ones he did. I enjoyed it, although it wasn’t quite what I was expecting. The description makes it seem like it’s going to be largely about music producer Bennie Salazar and his assistant Sasha, and to some extent it is; the first two chapters focus on them individually. However, all of […]

Short and Thought-Provoking

Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives by David Eagleman

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Sum is a book that you could easily tear through in an hour or two, depending on how quickly you read and whether you take time to process what you’ve read, but I would recommend taking a little bit of time with it. I read it over the course of a few days so I could take a little time to absorb and reflect on each vignette, or at least the ones that I found most interesting or thought-provoking. Sum manages to contain a lot […]

My First Review for My First CBR

Snow by Orhan Pamuk

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My partner is part of a book club at work, and I thought it might be fun to read the books myself, which is how I came across Orhan Pamuk’s Snow. The novel follows Ka, a Turkish poet living as a political exile in Germany for the past 12 years. After returning to Turkey for his mother’s funeral (which the book doesn’t spend any time on), he heads to the border town of Kars, ostensibly to write an article on girls who have been dying […]



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