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Original Essays | September 23, 2009

Jonathan Lethem: IMG Stops: On Those Things My New Novel Forgot to Be About, Maybe



For me, there's a weird, unfathomable gulf — I almost wrote gulp — between the completion of a novel and its publication. Some days this duration feels interminable, as though the book has... Continue »
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    Chronic City

    Jonathan Lethem

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Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold by C S Lewis
Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold

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A deep, thought-provoking book. A great work of fiction.
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Boot Camp by Todd Strasser
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Ender's Game (Ender Wiggins Saga #1) by Orson Scott Card
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Mark of the Lion #01: A Voice in the Wind by Francine Rivers
Mark of the Lion #01: A Voice in the Wind

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Ender's Game (Ender Wiggins Saga) by Orson Scott Card
Ender's Game (Ender Wiggins Saga)

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"Ender's Game was strongly recommended to me by a friend, but as I am not a big fan of sci-fi, I was reluctant to read it. That being said, I was taken completely by suprise when I couldn't put it down!"
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