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A very put-down-able novella

Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin

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Amanda, a young woman, lies in a hospital. We don’t know how she got there, or what’s wrong with her. Sitting on her bed is a young boy, David, who is not her son, but who nonetheless seems to know a lot about her. David is urging Amanda to tell her story, to be observant, but to be quick, as she doesn’t have much time left. What follows is a somewhat suspenseful story that touches on a few interesting themes, including parenthood, but ultimately doesn’t […]

I’ll be watching you…

Kentukis by Samanta Schweblin

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More than a conventional novel, Kentukis is a collection of glimpses into people’s lives as they deal with the new must have gadgets that have become a worldwide obsession. These gadgets are known as Kentukis, and what they do is establish a connection between the person who owns the Kentuki (a sort of even creepier Furby) and the person who is the Kentuki, that is, the person who bought a connection to look into the life of the person who owns the Kentuki through the […]

Little by little, sales went back down.

Mouthful of Birds by Samanta Schweblin

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I have a secret to tell you. I have a terrible gauge on whether or not I am enjoying a book as I am reading it. So I am likely to continue pushing myself through a book regardless of whether or not I want to be reading it at all. Partially this is because I have the ability (as a practiced English major) to force myself to get through books I am struggling with…I once “read” all of Henry James’s The Bostonians for a class by […]

The girl with kaleidoscope eyes

Pájaros en la boca y otros cuentos (Mouthful of Birds: Stories) by Samanta Schweblin

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Samanta Schweblin. This is a name I have been hearing for years but for some reason I had never read any of her books before this past December. After three books, she is definitely one of my favorite writers. Well, after one book, really. As soon as I finished her story collection “Siete casas vacías” I knew I was in literary love. For me, Schweblin is Lucy in the Sky with a touch of Kafka. Her stories are surreal and whimsical but with a dangerous […]

The Core of the Disturbance

Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin

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The title of my post is Google Translate’s translation for the Spanish language title for this book. It’s a much cooler title and doesn’t allow for all the annoying working of the title into reviews for this novel. Oh this book reads like a fever dream, you say? Isn’t the title…so like you’re not being clever by saying that, you’re literally just repeating the title of the book. My favorite part of the scarlet letter is the scarlet letter; I guess I will forever wear […]



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