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Sven’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Sven’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Sven Axelrad
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Alejandro Zambra, George Saunders, Carlos Ruiz Zafon, Louis deBerniere
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Buried Treasure
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2023
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God's Pocket
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2024
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2 editions
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The Nicotine Gospel
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Alistair Mackay has delivered a truly beautiful collection of short stories. They range in topic and tone, but the themes run central – just how much longer can the planet continue this way? (beautifully asked in Overstory-fashion in The Chair and ag ...more |
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| This is a book that offers both language and story, but I think what impressed me the most is the carefully crafted mood. There’s a stark and desolate feeling in the writing which Craig contrasts with glimmers of hope and much understanding. The resu ...more | |
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“Once again I come upon his famous definition of love: two solitudes that protect and border and greet each other.”
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| With The Child, Alistair Mackay manages to achieve something that is notoriously difficult in fiction – he is honest, painfully so at times. Even more impressive, The Child is both honest and handled with considerable style. I’ve confidently recommen ...more | |
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“The human soul may begin pure white, immaculately laundered, but who among us can stop the dirt of life from soiling something so clean?”
― Buried Treasure
― Buried Treasure
“In this way the vacant lot acts as a religious catch-all, the anti-church of churches, an amalgamation of others. It’s full of dogs too, who are there to worship the humans, as well as the occasional cat which comes not to worship but to be worshipped.”
― Buried Treasure
― Buried Treasure
“she told me not to worry so much - I was dead now and all the worrying had to stop at some point.”
― Buried Treasure
― Buried Treasure
“The human soul may begin pure white, immaculately laundered, but who among us can stop the dirt of life from soiling something so clean?”
― Buried Treasure
― Buried Treasure
“We are a collection of everything that has happened to us, which is to say we are stories.”
― Buried Treasure
― Buried Treasure
“In this way the vacant lot acts as a religious catch-all, the anti-church of churches, an amalgamation of others. It’s full of dogs too, who are there to worship the humans, as well as the occasional cat which comes not to worship but to be worshipped.”
― Buried Treasure
― Buried Treasure
