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The Glass Hotel is Emily St. John Mandel’s follow-up to Station Eleven, but it is a very different book. This book takes place in our world, and at the center of it is a Ponzi scheme — think Bernie Madoff, leaving enormous numbers of people without their life savings. But despite the different sort of plot, the book has the same ephemeral, dream-like feel that
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I pick up a lot of books without remembering what they are supposed to be about, so I was surprised to find that this was less of a narrative novel than it was a collection of loosely-connected short stories about music executive Bennie Salazar and the people in his orbit (and sometimes their orbits). I thought it was well written enough to keep me reading
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This book is what I would put in the category of “gentle reads”. Nothing particularly bad happens here, unless you count the death of Amy, Sara’s penpal. But that death happens off screen and before Sara arrives, so you have no emotional connection to her at the beginning of the story. So what you really have is the story of a small town and its
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Lost and Found is an Amazing Race-esque reality show where teams of 2 compete in a sort of scavenger hunt in locales around the world. When we join the story, they are about halfway through their journey. At the center of the story are Laura and her daughter Cassie. Laura is hoping to reconnect with Cassie on this adventure, because they’ve both recently been through
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