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If you're joining late, fling means "read now and see if you like it," marry means "keep for later because you surely will," and kill means "it sucks/you won't like it, toss unread."
If you're familiar with any of these, let me know what you think!
Take Three Tenses: A Fugue in Time, by Rumer Godden. Three generations in the same house, seen simultaneously. (Who am I kidding, there is no way I would ever kill this.)
The Steep Approach to Garbadale, by Iain Banks. Mainstream novel about a family that has a video game empire? Banks' books are very unpredictable for me in terms of whether/how much I'll like them.
The Magician's Assistant, by Ann Patchett. A magician's assistant and also widow discover surprising things after his death or maybe faked death.
People of the Book, by Geraldine Brooks. An ancient Haggadah uncovers mysteries. The premise sounds great but I read something else by Brooks and really disliked it.
And the Ass Saw the Angel, by Nick Cave. Nick Cave's southern gothic. I have taken a few cracks at this and never gotten far, but I love his music. Might just need more sustained concentration.
Life After Life, by Kate Atkinson. A woman repeats her life in multiple variations. I love this premise.
Ladder of Years, by Anne Tyler. A wife and mother runs away and starts a new life. I often like Tyler but I'm having a knee-jerk "Did she let her kids think she was DEAD???" response to this one.
The Tiger Claw, by Shauna Singh Baldwin. Novel based on Noor Inayat Khan. Possibly depressing.
The Lords of Discipline, by Pat Conroy. Semi-autobiographical novel about military academy. I like the setting and I like Conroy, but for some reason I have never gotten far into this one. Try again?
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The Business is about a 30-something go-getting exec in the eponymous Business, which has been big for a long time - as in once technically owning the Roman Empire. She was effectively adopted by a senior exec from a dirt poor background and schooled for the role, and is on the point of breaking through to the highest levels, which will put her on the global rich list. The Business swore off temporal power after the Roman Empire thing, but is now debating reversing that as a seat at the UN and a currency to call their own would be useful. She's neck deep in that as one option for acquiring said UN seat is marrying her off to the king of a Himalayan kingdom, then she accidentally stumbles onto something which may be a plot by one of the senior execs, which sends her on a travelogue around their various Bond-villainish lairs. Nothing horrible, but someone caught up in something which may have no good endings. If I had to come up with comparisons, think Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon without the dual track narrative and less techno-geekery, with a touch of the film of Len Deighton's Billion Dollar Brain.
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