#bluesky #crane
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Winner of last year’s Barbara and David Zalaznick Book Prize in American History. #AlanTaylor is a prolific writer on American history. This book #AmericanRepbublics also touched on other countries in the vicinity. A wonderful book on early US history and shattered many myths which now are considered given though the fact says otherwise.
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#bluesky #cherryblossom #sakura (at 魯迅公園)
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#GraemeMacraeBurnet #CaseStudy is a disappointment, period. It has very similar structure with Hernan Diaz’s Trust. I don’t understand why Booker longlisted two books at the same time. It also reminds me of Piranesi, a mixture of fictional biography and narrative fiction.
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#TorreyPeters #DetransitionBaby is too messed up. No likable characters don’t help either. The author packaged too many things together and I just feel that there is too much preaching instead of letting the story excel.
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#bluesky (at Xintiandi)
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Last year’s Pulitzer Prize winner for history. #AdaFerrer wrote an honest history on Cuba. It’s also a history on US involvement in Cuba. Lightweight compared to Hugh Thomas’s opus Cub published almost half century ago, which I haven’t read yet. This could very well be the book for me.
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#HernanDiaz #Trust was Booker longlisted and one of the best books of 2022 by NYT. It’s definitely worth the read.
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