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Powell's Staff:
New Literature in Translation: December 2022 and January 2023
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It may be a new year, this may be a list of new books, but our love for literature in translation hasn’t changed at all, and we are so pleased to be enthusiastically recommending these recent releases. On this list, you’ll find a Spanish novel where controversy swirls around a Coca-Cola billboard...
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Kelsey Ford:
From the Stacks: J. M. Ledgard's Submergence
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Five Book Friday: Year of the Rabbit
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Supernaturalist
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Eoin Colfer
NinaCS
, March 27, 2009
Supernaturalist works excellently within the chosen frame. It gives you flashes from the main characters' thoughts, but concentrates on creating a believeable vision of one possible future of humankind where unimportant people are treated like animals, or even worse. The supernatural dimension with the Parasites describes beautifully the possibility of choosing your own reality, even within a world that seems to be without hope.
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Seven Kingdoms 01 Graceling
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Kristin Cashore
NinaCS
, March 27, 2009
I was positively surprised by the excellent quality of storytelling in Graceling. The story works beautifully on several dimensions, showing the developmental process of Katsa, as well as her love story with prince Po, all within a whirl of well developed plot. The frames of the actual story are well written too, and it is very easy to get into the world of gracelings. Awesome book! I hope Kristin Cashore writes more soon.
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The Hunger Games: Hunger Games 1
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Suzanne Collins
NinaCS
, March 27, 2009
I am wondering the other reviews, as I found Hunger Games quite shallow, plot being overly stretched and very predictable. The frames of the story are great, and it could have been an awesome book, so maybe I was just expecting more of it. While comparing Hunger Games to other books of the same genre (for example The Traveler - trilogy, Eoin Colfer's Supernaturalist or Neil Gaiman's books) the difference of quality becomes very obvious. I hope the sequel of Hunger Games proves me wrong.
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