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L’Elégance du Hérisson (2000)

This is one of the most thoughtful books I have ever read, at the top with some of Coelho's works. Books like these are why we read; it is one that I will visit year after year and that which has shaped a lot of my own current life views. A social satire, its very intelligent writing, subtle sarc...

L’Elégance du Hérisson (2000) by Muriel Barbery
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The Elegance of the Hedgehog (2008)

Una donna di cinquantaquattro anni e una ragazzina di dodici. Apparentemente distanti, ma intellettualmente affini. Entrambe alla ricerca di un nascondiglio. L���una dal senso di colpa per un "amore per il sapere", che giudica assurdamente inadatto al suo ruolo sociale. L���altra dalla vacuit�� d...

The Elegance of the Hedgehog (2008) by Muriel Barbery
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State of Wonder (2011)

I don't know whether to like this book or hate it. I guess I feel both ways about it. Perhaps the most uncomfortable aspect of this title is that it so claustrophobic and unbelievable, even for me when I am normally very adept at suspending disbelief. The ending felt terribly artificial as well, ...

State of Wonder (2011) by Ann Patchett
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A Visit from the Goon Squad (2010)

Call it William S. Burrough's cut-up technique, call it post-modernism, call it post-structuralism--whatever you call it, it worked for me. In most chapters of this novel, one visits a character at one point in time, and in the next chapter, a minor character becomes the major character. But one ...

A Visit from the Goon Squad (2010) by Jennifer Egan
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The Art of Racing in the Rain (2008)

I'm not sure that I possess the words to adequately describe this book. How on earth the author was able to weave such a compelling story, demanding that the reader suspend disbelief that we are actually hearing this tale from a dog's POV, it all defies explanation. And yet, I'm looking at my o...

The Art of Racing in the Rain (2008) by Garth Stein