I kept trying to describe this book to people and failing, but it is exactly the sort of book that I love. My tastes remain ineffable to me, apparently. The narration is detailed, things happen but not too fast, it's funny, the narrator is blind to some things that we the readers can see but also pa...
I kept trying to describe this book to people and failing, but it is exactly the sort of book that I love. My tastes remain ineffable to me, apparently. The narration is detailed, things happen but not too fast, it's funny, the narrator is blind to some things that we the readers can see but also pa...
Just another one of those books with long, 'original' titles which in truth should have been called 'Me, Myself and I'. There were some witty passages throughout, but I think it should be illegal to advertise one product and sell another.
I got bored of it and stopped with 50 or 60 pages left. The Possessed is only marginally about adventures or Russian books. Instead it consists mostly of travelogue and a series of Elif's personal stories about her experiences in grad school, with a vague thread of Russianness connecting them all. S...
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The companion and follow up to [b:n+1; What We Should Have Known: Two Discussions|2306435|n+1; What We Should Have Known Two Discussions (Research Branch Pamphlet No.2)|Andrew S. Jacobs|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1202760393s/2306435.jpg|2312849], it features many of the same elements from the pr...
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