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Three Books and a Bingo

To Paradise by Hanya Yanagihara

The Swimmers by Julia Otsuka

Nuclear Family by Joseph Han

August 21, 2022 by booktrovert Leave a Comment

Today I’ll catch up with some reviews that have been waiting for a bit AND make a complete Bingo across the top row! First up: For the spot Monster, I offer: To Paradise by Yanagihara. I chose “monster” for this book because of its intimidating length (over 700 pages! I don’t read tomes that like very often any more) and because I felt very nervous about reading it after being so utterly destroyed by A Little Life. Well. I can’t exactly say that this book matches ALL […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: cbr14bingo, hanya yanagihara, Joseph Han, Julia Otsuka

booktrovert's CBR14 Review No:83 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: cbr14bingo, hanya yanagihara, Joseph Han, Julia Otsuka ·
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    I suspect I got more enjoyment reading your review than you did of the actual book. "Jail, jail for author...
  • esmemoria
    on “To be so ravenous with desperation that the only way out is complete and utter annihilation. A torpedo made of your own sharpened body.”- Senaa Ahmad (or me about wanting to quit this book)
    This sounds perfectly awful, but I do love this review.
  • Sheila
    on I don’t do torture
    I wish I had read this review before I bought this Audible book. I am just at the halfway point...
  • bjornsnipe
    on “To be so ravenous with desperation that the only way out is complete and utter annihilation. A torpedo made of your own sharpened body.”- Senaa Ahmad (or me about wanting to quit this book)
    Thank you.
  • Maximoff
    on “The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means.”- Oscar Wilde
    May I join you at that dinner party? This book is well worth reading.
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