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Small Great Things ★★★★☆
Good intentions and says all the right things but a little too exposition-y. It ends a bit too perfectly. But
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The Poppy Fields ★★★★☆
Erlick's second novel (for me) tackles grief more directly. Centered around three characters who are forced by circumstances
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Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves ★★★★★
Gilbert covers a lot of ground exploring incidences of women's exploitation in music, entertainment, reality TV, and even
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Little Fires Everywhere ★★★★★
Brilliantly written, it explores the frustrations yet the deep love mothers have for their daughters. I also love how Ng
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The Dream Hotel ★★★★★
Minority Report meets an authoritarian government that seems just too real to be considered a dystopian future. The real story
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The Stardust Grail ★★★☆☆
A tad all over the place in terms of the narrative. It’s definitely ambitious in its world building and
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The Seep ★★★☆☆
Notable Highlights
When connected with the aliens through water or bodily fluids, it was impossible to feel anything except expansive
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The Daughter of Time ★★★★★
An excellent and logical solving of a historical mystery from a hospital bed helped by an enthusiastic research assistant. And
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Apple in China: The Capture of the World's Greatest Company ★★★★★
A sharp, unsettling look at Apple’s deep entanglement with China—how a quest for scale, speed, and perfection reshaped both. What began as symbiosis now feels like mutual dependence, ethical strain, and a future boxed in by rising authoritarianism. Click to Read More
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Atmosphere: A Love Story ★★★★☆
A tad sentimental with either little too perfect characters but charming. It got better in the last quarter.
* Format: 341
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All Better Now ★★★★☆
Very much Pluribus-like but more action-packed. But it explicitly explores the duality of the "good" disease; something that
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Mother Mary Comes to Me ★★★★★
Beautiful, poetic, and brutally candid, as she always is, Arundhati Roy writing only her third book, memoirs her childhood shaped
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The Secret of Secrets ★★★☆☆
Dan Brown seems to have lost the art of making you turn the pages and with near 700 pages, this
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Missing, Presumed ★★★★☆
A police procedural with a healthy dose of character building of the cops and their lives. The mystery is interesting
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Reasons to Stay Alive ★★★★☆
* Format: 256 pages, Audiobook
* Published: February 23, 2016 by Penguin Life
* ISBN: 9780143128724 (ISBN10: 0143128728)
* ASIN: 0143128728
* Language: English
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The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds ★★★★★
* Format: 362 pages, Hardcover
* Published: December 6, 2016 by W. W. Norton & Company
* ISBN9780393254594 (ISBN10: 0393254593)
* ASIN: 0393254593
* Language:
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The Thin Man ★★★★☆
* Format: 210 pages, Kindle Edition
* Published: September 1, 2024 by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
* ASIN: B004GTLVP4
* Language: English
Nick and
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The Woman in the Window ★★★★☆
* Format: 455 pages, Kindle Edition
* Published: January 2, 2018 by William Morrow
* ASIN: B06Y55Z36S
* Language: English
Anna Fox lives alone,