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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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