THE GIRL WITH THE GLASS FEET by Ali Shaw
Book Quote: “Memories were just photos printed on synapses. As such he justified sharing some of them with the world while keeping others locked in hidden albums. Yet as he’d poured the steaming water...
View ArticleFREEDOM by Jonathan Franzen
Book Quote: “Where did the self-pity come from? The inordinate volume of it? By almost any standard, she led a luxurious life. She had all day every day to figure out some decent and satisfying way to...
View ArticleTRAVELS IN SIBERIA by Ian Frazier
Book Quote: “For most people, Siberia is not the place itself but a figure of speech. In fashionable restaurants in New York and Los Angeles, Siberia is the section of less-desirable tables given to...
View ArticleSKIPPY DIES by Paul Murray
Book Quote: “The shape and feel of being fourteen—the taste of apple-flavoured bubblegum in his mouth, the humiliation of a spot on his chin, the unending turmoil of that endless struggle to stay...
View ArticleTHE EVOLUTIONARY VOID by Peter F. Hamilton
Book Quote: “Illanthe performed a random sweep over sections of the assembly arena, noting the various forms and shapes manifested across the shell wall. Over half retained a human appearance, whereas...
View ArticleUNDER FISHBONE CLOUDS by Sam Meekings
Book Quote: “This is the kind of story the Jade Emperor himself enjoys hearing from me, one where the focus, indeed the whole point of the tale, is the grand heroic choice, the cinematic action. He is...
View ArticleEVERYTHING LOVELY, EFFORTLESS, SAFE by Jenny Hollowell
Book Quote: “Sometimes she sees her life as a series of set pieces rolling in and then out again, realistic enough to fool the camera but unable to withstand closer examination. Any inspection would...
View ArticleDANIEL by Henning Mankell
Book Quote: “I’m a little boy, he thought. I have travelled much too far away. My parents and the other people I lived with are dead. And yet they live. They are still closer to me than the man called...
View ArticleTHE IMMORTAL LIFE OF HENRIETTA LACKS by Rebecca Skloot
Book Quote: “There’s no way of knowing exactly how many of Henrietta’s cells are alive today. One scientist estimates that if you could pile all HeLa cells ever grown onto a scale, they’d weigh more...
View ArticleTINKERS by Paul Harding
Book Quote: “The porch was unpainted and its wood bleached to a silvery white. When the sky filled with clouds, it often turned the same silver color as the wood, so that it only seemed missing a grain...
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