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Book Review: The Order of the Furies: 1795 by Niklas Natt och Dag
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Book Review: The Order of the Furies: 1795 by Niklas Natt och Dag

Man of la BookMay 7, 2024

The plot, while historically interesting, goes on irrelevant side stories. The ending is just OK, very strange, and, I thought, unsatisfying.

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Book Review: This Country Is No Longer Yours by Avik Jain Chatlani
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Book Review: This Country Is No Longer Yours by Avik Jain Chatlani

Man of la BookApril 25, 2024

I hated the author’s passive-aggressive agenda. It just rubbed me the wrong way and seemed hell-bent on incorporating it into his book

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Book Review: 1794: The City Between the Bridges by Niklas Natt och Dag
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Book Review: 1794: The City Between the Bridges by Niklas Natt och Dag

Man of la BookJanuary 2, 2024

1794: The City Between the Bridges is a dark, brutal story is unrelenting, but difficult to stop reading which is a testament to the excellent translation

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Book Review: The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece by Tom Hanks
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Book Review: The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece by Tom Hanks

Man of la BookDecember 12, 2023

I thought the novelization of movie-making made the process a lot more interesting, capturing the energy, excitement, and mechanics

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Book Review: Portrait in Sepia by Isabel Allende
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Book Review: Portrait in Sepia by Isabel Allende

Man of la BookNovember 30, 2023

I found the book quite boring in the beginning, but the story got better when the narrative was moved from San Francisco to Chile

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Book Review: The Road Beyond Ruin by Gemma Liviero
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Book Review: The Road Beyond Ruin by Gemma Liviero

Man of la BookAugust 29, 2023

This is a story with many layers, brutal and naked, which had several twists I did not see coming. There are many themes, consequences of choices made, secrets

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Book Review: The Ghetto Within by Santiago H. Amigorena
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Book Review: The Ghetto Within by Santiago H. Amigorena

Man of la BookAugust 24, 2022

The Ghetto Within by Santiago H. Amigorena also deals with issues of identity, as many immigrants do. Are they Argentina? Polish? Polish-Argentinian? Jewish?

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Book Review: The Wolf and the Watchman by Niklas Natt och Dag
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Book Review: The Wolf and the Watchman by Niklas Natt och Dag

Man of la BookMarch 7, 2019

The horror in this book has nothing to do with imaginary monsters, but with the horror of what humans are able to do to one another. It is fascinating

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Thoughts on: Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
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Book Review: Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke

Man of la BookDecember 22, 2011

This book has layers which allow the reader to think about and explore. Jealousy, friendship, envy, love, arrogance and, of course, redemption

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Thoughts on: The Attack by Yasmina Khadra
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Book Review: The Attack by Yasmina Khadra

Man of la BookOctober 23, 2011

After getting home from a very long shift, Dr. Jafaari is woken up asking to come identify his wife’s body who has been killed in a suicide attack

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