Tag: 2010s
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Favorite Books of the 2010s: Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh
This is a series of reviews of my favorite books published between 2010 and 2019. Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh (2015) Eileen is a most unpleasant character, a twenty-four-year-old girl working as a secretary in a juvenile delinquent facility for boys, enabling her verbally abusive father’s alcoholism, doing everything she can to make herself disappear. This is…
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Favorite Books of the 2010s: The Three by Sarah Lotz
This is a series of reviews of my favorite books published between 2010 and 2019. The Three by Sarah Lotz (2015) Four planes crash simultaneously in different parts of the world, three children survive and behave strangely afterward, and conspiracy theories run rampant, including a cult of Christians who believe this signals the End Times.…
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Favorite Books of the 2010s: The Water Knife by Paolo Bacigalupi
This is a series of book reviews of my favorite books published between 2010 and 2019. The Water Knife by Paolo Backigalupi (2015) In the near future, climate change has brought about drought and constant dust storms in the American Southwest, resulting in the collapse of several cities as well as the state of Texas, and…
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Favorite Books of the 2010s: A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay
This is a series of book reviews of my favorite books published between 2010 and 2019. A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay (2015) When she was eight years old, Merry’s big sister Marjorie developed severe schizophrenia — or perhaps, as their dad came to believe, she was possessed by a demon. Desperate for both…
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Favorite Books of the 2010s: Gold Fame Citrus by Claire Vaye Watkins
This is a series of book reviews of my favorite books published between 2010 and 2019. Gold Fame Citrus by Claire Vaye Watkins (2015) In the near future, drought has rendered the Southwestern United States nearly uninhabitable. A mountain-high sea dune called the Amargosa has spread over large portions of the Mojave Desert in southern California.…
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Favorite Books of the 2010s: Quick Takes of 2014 Novels
This is a series of reviews of my favorite books published between 2010 and 2019. These are shorter reviews of good reads published in 2014. Broken Monsters by Lauren Beukes (2014) In Detroit, a young boy is murdered and the top half of his body attached to the legs of a fawn, kicking off a hunt…
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Favorite Books of the 2010s: Frog Music by Emma Donoghue
This is a series of reviews of my favorite books published between 2010 and 2019. Frog Music by Emma Donoghue (2014) In 1876 San Francisco, a heat wave and a smallpox epidemic mean tempers are frayed. Jenny Bonnet, a frog hunter notorious for wearing men’s clothing, collides on her high-rider bicycle with Blanche Beunon, a dancer…
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Favorite Books of the 2010s: The Book of Strange New Things by Michel Faber
This is a series of reviews of my favorite books published between 2010 and 2019. The Book of Strange New Things by Michel Faber (2014) A Christian preacher travels to another planet, Oasis, to minister to the alien natives and finds himself becoming more distant from his wife, left behind on Earth where society seems to…
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