Tag: The Orphan Master’s Son
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Favorite Books of the 2010s: The Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson
This is a series of reviews of my favorite books published between 2010 and 2019. The Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson (2012) This book reminded me quite a bit of Catch-22, but unlike in Catch-22, it’s difficult to know what is exaggerated satire here and what is reality. North Korea is such a black box,…
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Favorite reads of 2017
At the end of each year, I round up my favorite five reads of the year–although not all of them were necessarily published this year. This year overall was a good year for reading. I discovered the Nocturnal Readers’ box, a monthly mystery box of horror and dark fiction, which although it contained some real…
Shannon Turlington 