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First Lines Wednesday – Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

9th Dec 202021st Feb 2022by absurdreviews2 Comments

Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics: 2006, 9780141441146) Check out more reviews here. "There was no possibility of taking a walk that day. We had been wandering, indeed, in the leafless shrubbery an hour in the morning; but since dinner (Mrs. Reed, when there was no company, dined early) the cold winter wind had brought with [...]

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10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World by Elif Shafak

4th Dec 20205th Sep 2021by absurdreviewsLeave a Comment

Elif Shafak, 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World (Penguin Books: 2020, 9780241979464) 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World begins with the end – of Tequila Leila’s life. Her death sparks a string of memories that take us from her birth to her death; from a childhood of oppression and abuse in [...]