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Marissa Levien

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Average rating: 3.82 · 2,750 ratings · 503 reviews · 1 distinct workSimilar authors
The World Gives Way

3.82 avg rating — 2,750 ratings — published 2021 — 8 editions
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If on a Winter's Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino
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The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
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The thing I love about Ernest Hemingway is how much he understands the complex female psyche. He just really understands women on an emotional level, and his writing bears that out.
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Moby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville
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A happy-go-lucky tale of an extremely well-adjusted man and his whale buddy.

5 stars for telling me how many handy things I can do with whale oil.
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Travel Light by Naomi Mitchison
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The Ruined Map by Kōbō Abe
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An Inventory of Losses by Judith Schalansky
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A Swim in a Pond in the Rain by George Saunders
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The Turgenev is my favorite part.
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Babel by R.F. Kuang
Babel
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This book does not pull punches. I was not expecting the intensity I got when I initially started reading, but given the fact that it's dealing with British Colonialism in the 19th century, I give this book all the props for fully going there. Kuang ...more
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Self-Portrait with Nothing by Aimee Pokwatka
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GREAT concept... I can't help but feel it should have amounted to more in the end, though.

The intermittent texts between the main character and her husband started off feeling like a tangent for me, but by the end they were my favorite part.
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“forced herself through the side door. Tap. Tap.”
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“It was important to anticipate the worst so you’d be ready for it.”
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“a place to visit but not a place to live. The spectacle fades as one stays there, and that spectacle is replaced with a feeling of decay.”
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