Books by Karen Russell
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3.34 of 5 Votes: 3
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review 1: I chose this book because I kept seeing rave reviews on Book Riot. This was a plane/travel book for me. While the novella format was nice, I did not mesh 100% with this book. Maybe it is my fault for not finishing it in one sitting, but I felt like I was continually climbing the ...
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3.19 of 5 Votes: 2
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review 1: I am not sure what caused this book to be a New York Times bestseller. It is about the crazies that live in Southern Florida, but I prefer Carl Hiassen to Karen Russel. Swamplandia was an alligator farm where tourists came to see Hiola wrestle alligators. Then she dies leaving he...
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3.65 of 5 Votes: 4
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review 1: I'll give this 4 stars, but I really feel like it was 3.5. This is a collection of modern short stories. Some were so good, I would race through them. They were fantastical and the writer brought you into a world that you never imagined. In keeping with this, the last short story...