Tag: 2010s
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Favorite Books of the 2010s: The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell
This is a series of reviews of my favorite books published between 2010 and 2019. The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell (2014) Mitchell’s latest novel is a genre-bending epic spanning sixty years about the people whose fates are altered by an ongoing war between immortals. The story begins in 1984 England as fifteen-year-old Holly Sykes is…
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Favorite Books of the 2010s: Revival by Stephen King
This is a series of reviews of my favorite books published between 2010 and 2019. Revival by Stephen King (2014) Throughout his life, Jamie Morton has repeatedly encountered the Reverend Charles Jacobs and been drawn into his mysterious experiments with electricity, but toward the end of Jacobs’s life, he coerces Jamie into participating into the ultimate–and…
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Favorite Books of 2010s: Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
This is a series of reviews of my favorite books published between 2010 and 2019. Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel (2014) An aging actor drops dead of a heart attack on stage, an omen for a sweeping flu pandemic that will decimate the world’s population within weeks. Station Eleven does something that I…
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Favorite Books of the 2010s: NOS4A2 by Joe Hill
This is a series of reviews of my favorite books published between 2010 and 2019. NOS4A2 by Joe Hill (2013) Charlie Manx is a psychic vampire who feeds on the youth and innocence of the children he ferrets away to his imaginary world of Christmasland, but he has an unlikely foe in Vic McQueen, a…
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Favorite Books of the 2010s: The Circle by Dave Eggers
This is a series of reviews of my favorite books published between 2010 and 2019. The Circle by Dave Eggers (2013) The Circle refers to a fictional company that is quite obviously an amalgam of Google and Facebook. The book is a dystopian view of a near future, a nightmarish outcome of current trends like living…
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Favorite Books of the 2010s: The Burn Palace by Stephen Dobyns
This is a series of reviews of my favorite books published between 2010 and 2019. The Burn Palace by Stephen Dobyns (2013) The Burn Palace begins with a maternity nurse discovering that one of the newborns in her care has disappeared and has been replaced by a six-foot corn snake, and it just gets wilder from there.…
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Favorite Books of the 2010s: A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
This is a series of reviews of my favorite books published between 2010 and 2019. A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki (2013) A writer living on a remote island off the coast of British Columbia finds a package washed ashore from Japan containing a diary and becomes obsessed with finding out what happened…
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