What did you read this year?
Crystal’s
average rating for
2024
4.9
4.9
The Bullet Swallower is one of those books that I pick up, and am truly blown away by the prose. E.G. James has a rare command of the language, with every sentence and every paragraph a masterful stroke in a wild, imaginative plot. I'm not into Westerns, but this book yanked me deep into its pages. Dual timelines are hard to wrangle, but you'd never know it in this novel. It's no wonder that I keep seeing this book pop up on the "most anticipated
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Reading this book during a time that feels rather apocalyptic in its own way was a strange comfort--we have been here before, over and over and over. Lynskey's background is in the realm of entertainment and politics, so it makes sense that there is such an emphasis on the sheer number of cultural references within this book that reference the end times. As humans we know we're hurtling toward death and of course we're going to be obsessed with h
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