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Kismetology
On Paper: The Everything of Its Two-Thousand-Year History
Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking: A Memoir of Food and Longing
The Mirror Lied: One Woman's 25-Year Struggle with Bulimia, Anorexia, Diet Pill Addiction, Laxative Abuse and Cutting.
Where Snowflakes Dance and Swear: Inside the Land of Ballet
Sisterland
Flora
The Old Curiosity Shop
The English Eccentrics
SPOILER ALERT!
30 Day Book Challenge (Day 6) - A Book That Makes You Sad
This book devastated me, and the devastation crept up on me and struck me unawares. I had a sense of the story when I began, but I was unprepared for how hard Cecilia and Robbie's fates hit me. I was in awe of McEwan's storytelling and his ability to put together a plot, with all its twists and turns. I thought there was something about the tone that I didn't like, and then I discovered why the book had the tone it did, and again, I was in awe. I have thought about this book a great deal since I read it. I still wonder how Briony lived with herself. Most certainly essential reading.
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