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Gabrielle Zevin

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12+ verk 18,252 medlemmar 1,278 recensioner 22 favoritmärkta

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Gabrielle Zevin was born in New York City on October 24, 1977. She received a degree in English and American literature from Harvard University in 2000. She has written both adult and young adult novels. Her debut, Margarettown, was a selection of the Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers visa mer program. Her other works include The Hole We're In, Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac, and The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry. Her young adult novel Elsewhere was an American Library Association Notable Children's Book. She has also written for the New York Times Book Review and NPR's All Things Considered. She is the screenwriter of Conversations with Other Women starring Helena Bonham Carter and Aaron Eckhart, for which she received an Independent Spirit Award Nomination. In 2009, she and director Hans Canosa adapted her novel Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac into the Japanese film, Dareka ga Watashi ni Kiss wo Shita. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre
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Verk av Gabrielle Zevin

Livet enligt Fikry (2014) 5,892 exemplar
Någon annanstans (2005) 3,582 exemplar
Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac (2007) 1,911 exemplar
All These Things I've Done (2011) 840 exemplar
Young Jane Young (2017) 756 exemplar
Because It Is My Blood (2012) 313 exemplar
The Hole We're In (2010) 196 exemplar
Margarettown (2005) 188 exemplar
Conversations with Other Women [2005 Film] (2005) — Writer — 12 exemplar

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Love Is Hell (2008) — Bidragsgivare — 463 exemplar
Modified: Cyborgs, Mutants, and Dystopia [first chapters] (2012) — Bidragsgivare — 17 exemplar

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First book in several years where I was literally unable to put it down... I read this on the clock during my internship sorry guys
 
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griller02 | 190 andra recensioner | Mar 18, 2024 |
I kept hearing how great this book was, so I picked it up, and...eeennnhhhhh. I liked it well enough to keep reading, but the main characters really irritated me...like, if they would just FREAKING TALK TO EACH OTHER, half this book wouldn't even need to exist. Maybe I'm just too old to be the right audience for this.
 
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ledonnelly | 190 andra recensioner | Mar 11, 2024 |
AJ is a widowed bookseller on Alice Island, drinking himself to death, until a toddler is left in his bookstore. With no-one else to take her, and her mother later turning up drowned, he adopts and raises her. Now that he's sobered up for Maya, he starts turning the bookstore around, and putting in orders with the beautiful saleswoman from Knightly books. A few other good characters and a lot of literary references - some books I've read and others I haven't. Tearjerker ending, but a happy ending for Island books.… (mer)
 
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nancynova | 566 andra recensioner | Mar 10, 2024 |
I struggle to critique this book, not because it's beyond reproach, but because all the potential flaws seem... appropriate? Perhaps even intentional? The beginning and ending of the book both were somewhat unsatisfying, but is that just poetic justice, or a metaphor for life?? The characters felt a bit unrelatable, or is that just me discovering that I can't 100% relate to genius game designers of Jewish and/or Korean descent????

The most memorable part for me was when I got to a certain section and just had to drop everything. I was fully spellbound, needing to just drop onto my couch and let tears run down my face for a solid hour as I listened to the audiobook. My boyfriend asked me if I was alright and I really just went:


Rating anything less than 5 stars would feel disrespectful of this fascinating piece, one of the rare literary fictions to boldly place technology (specifically video games) centerstage.
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boopingaround | 190 andra recensioner | Mar 6, 2024 |

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Verk
12
Även av
2
Medlemmar
18,252
Popularitet
#1,203
Betyg
3.9
Recensioner
1,278
ISBN
243
Språk
17
Favoritmärkt
22

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