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Jul

3

2019

cover of Like a Love Story

Like a Love Story by Abdi Nazemian

Have you ever read a book that you finish and say you are a different person when you finish it? That’s this book. There are books that are powerful and important, and then there are books that are POWERFUL and IMPORTANT. This is the latter. This book impacted me on all levels. Beautiful, romantic, smart, …

Nov

15

2017

Queen of Spades

Queen of Spades
by Michael Shou-Yung Shum

Why is this novel so absurdly entertaining? Shum, who was a casino dealer in Lake Stevens before getting his English PhD, loosely bases his story on an old gambling tale by Pushkin, but it has a seemingly effortless liveliness all of its own (I say “seemingly” because that kind of effortlessness takes a lot of …