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Tag: Jennifer Egan

A Visit from the Goon Squad -Jennifer Egan

On March 13, 2017March 4, 2017 By bookskepticIn Reviews2 Comments

This book won a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2011 and I heard somewhere something about it, so when I saw it in second-hand bookshop the title seemed familiar and I grabbed it. I read it during my crazy January among eleven other books, most of them being non-fiction, so maybe that affected my reception …

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January round-up

On February 1, 2017March 26, 2017 By bookskepticIn Thoughts1 Comment

Last January I managed to read 10 books, a lot more than I read on a typical month. Did I start this year with a similar bang? Yes and no. I did read 12 books and liked all of them, but on blogging front it was a bit quiet, because of my new job, also …

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