F. Scott Fitzgerald
“That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you’re not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.”
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“Klara and the Sun” by Kazuo Ishiguro
A lot of research has been done on people’s responses to robots. In a nutshell, it comes to the fact that the more a robot resembles a person, especially a child but also a friendly-looking animal, the more we tend to feel empathy towards the machine, particularly when we see it in distress. Remember Data from
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“Devil’s Delight” by M.C. Beaton and R.W. Green
Agatha Raisin is a free-spirited and elegant woman in her 50ties who runs a private detective agency in the Cotswolds village of Carsely. She is on a new case, and this time the case literally bumped into her. While driving with her assistant Toni to a wedding, a naked man suddenly dashed in front of
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“Magpie Murders” by Anthony Horowitz
A charming 1950 English village Saxby-on-Avon is the setting of Anthony Horowitz’s whodunit “Magpie Murders.” It’s a little bit of Sherlock Holmes, a nod to Agatha Christie, and perhaps a tad of “Midsummer Murders” (the analogy mentioned in the book.) This story within a story has a book editor, Susan Ryeland, trying to solve an
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“Elizabeth Finch” by Julian Barnes
“She stood before us, without notes, books, or nerves.” This is the first sentence of Julian Barnes’s new novel and the introduction of Elizabeth Finch, a writer and an adult education teacher. Her favorite student, the novel’s narrator Neal, tells us: “She was, quite simply, the most grown-up person I have met in my life.
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“The Guest List” by Lucy Foley
If only a person’s evil deeds could be seen in a portrait, as in the case of Oscar Wilde’s Dorian Gray, whose picture looks worse and worse following the moral decline of Dorian… But in Lucy Foley’s mystery, “The Guest List,” when the man with no ethical rules, Will Slater, looks in the mirror, his
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“Why Read” by Will Self
Why read? Reading is such a personal, unique experience for humans. And we vary significantly in what we decide to read. The new collection of essays by Will Self will undoubtedly make a reader reflect on the reading process – that is, on absorbing the text created by another human being, based on that person’s
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