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Random book reviews from a girl who likes to read, a lot.

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Random reviews of books that I found fascinating and worth sharing with the general public.

Men Without Women

A review of Haruki Murakami’s lovely short story collection, Men Without Women.

DEFI, defi the norm, drive my car, feelings, Haruki Murakami, heartbreak, jazz, kafuku, kino, luis aguilera photography, men without women, Murakami, publishing, Scope Miami Beach, Tokyo

The Middlesteins

Book review of Jami Attenberg’s novel, The Middlesteins.

2012, august, bad review, benny middlestein, chicago, communication, edie middlestein, empathy, first world problem, hoarding, jami attenberg, magical realism, middlesteins, obesity, rachelle middlestein, richard middlestein, robin middlestein, russian jewish, shopping, summer, the middlesteins

The Portable Veblen

Book review of Elizabeth McKenzie’s new novel, The Portable Veblen.

bolero, cloris hutchmacher, couple, Elizabeth McKenzie, engaged, ethics, family, hutmacher pharmaceuticals, hypochondriac, marriage, married, melanie duffy, mother, narcissist, narcissistic parents, novel, palo alto, Paul Vreeland, pneumatic turbo skull punch, ravel, relationships, rudgear, squirrel, stunted, The Portable Veblen, thorstein veblen, van gogh, Veblen, Veblen Amundsen-Hovda

The Nest

A review of the new book, The Nest by Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney. Let’s have some fun!

accident, bea plumb, cynthia d'aprix sweeney, family, jacqueline susann, leo plumb, Love, nyc, oyster bar, publishing, strawberry fields, the nest, the plumbs, trust fund, writing

The Wind Up Bird Chronicle

Haruki Murakami’s The Wind Up Bird Chronicle book review.

cinnamon, creta kano, empathy, empty well, Forty Rooms, Haruki Murakami, internal life, Japan, kumiko, lieutenant mamiya, mr. honda, Murakami, noboru wataya, norwegian war, nutmeg, Olga Grushin, pain, saving for japan, secrets, the wind up bird chronicle, toru okada, translations, trauma, wind up bird, wwII

Forty Rooms

Forty Rooms is about the life of a Russian woman who is unnamed until halfway through the book where she is only known by her married name, Mrs. Caldwell.

40, Anna Akhmatova, art, artist, Boris Pasternak, children, Dr. Zhivago, Dreams, Elizabeth Costello, Forty Rooms, heartbreak, Hopes, Life, Love, Miami, Mrs. Caldwell, muse, Olga, Olga Grushin, poet, Poetry, Russian Lit, Russian Literature, Settling, Soviet Union

Norwegian Wood

Review of Haruki Murakami’s well-known book, Norwegian Wood.

1960's, Haruki Murakami, Midori, Naoko, Norwegian Wood, Reiko, sex, suicide, Tokyo, Toru, Watanabe

The Broken Teaglass

Book Review of Emily Arnesault’s debut novel, The Broken Teaglass.

Billy Webb, Emily Arnesault, jobs, Mona, Post college life, The Broken Teaglass

Random Tidbits

Update and Gabrielle Bernstein.

Add More ~ing, Gabrielle Bernstein, Heaven, Libraries, Update

One more thing…

Brief review of the of film, La Chamade

Catherine Deneuve, Film, Françoise Sagan, La Chamade

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