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This story is about a lot of things, but mostly about idiots. So it needs saying from the outset that it’s always very easy to declare that other people are idiots, but only if you forget how idiotically difficult being human is. A person, at the end of their rope, decides that the way they are going to move forward is to rob a bank.
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Beartown is a small town in Sweden that is on the way out. One thing is keeping it alive — a ice hockey team of teenage boys on their way to win the national championship. A win like that, used to entice a popular hockey organization to relocate there, could mean everything. But teenagers are messy, and their parents are messy, and people don’t always
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This was a really interesting collection of short stories, written by an anonymous North Korean author mostly in the early 1990s. The stories take place both before and after the death of Kim Il-Sung and during the beginning of the North Korean famine. I thought it did a great job of illustrating the oppression that most people in North Korea were living under at that
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I always remember that I love Tana French’s books, but I always forget just how *much* I love her books until I pick up another one. Toby has lived a charmed life where not much has gone wrong, until he comes home one night and is attacked and left for dead. He has survived, but not without a severe brain injury that has left him
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