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Soneela Nankani
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MEM is a rare novel, a small book carrying very big ideas, the kind of story that stays with you long after you've finished listening to it. Set in the glittering art deco world of a century ago, MEM makes one slight alteration to history: a scientist in Montreal discovers a method allowing people to have their memories extracted from their minds, whole and complete.
The Mems exist as mirror-images of their source-zombie-like creatures destined to experience that singular memory over and over, until they expire in the cavernous Vault where they are kept. And then there is Dolores Extract #1, the first Mem capable of creating her own memories. An ageless beauty shrouded in mystery, she is allowed to live on her own, and create her own existence, until one day she is summoned back to the Vault. What happens next is a gorgeously rendered, heart-breaking novel in the vein of Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go.
Debut novelist Bethany Morrow has created an allegory for our own time, exploring profound questions of ownership and how they relate to identity, memory, and history, all in the shadows of Montreal's now forgotten slave trade.
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Mercy Alston knows the best thing to do with pesky feelings like "love" and "hope": avoid them at all costs. Serving as a maid to Eliza Hamilton, and an assistant in the woman's stubborn desire to preserve her late husband's legacy, has driven that point home for Mercy - as did her own previous heartbreaks. When Andromeda Stiel shows up at Hamilton Grange for an interview in her grandfather's stead, Mercy's resolution to live a quiet, pain-free life is tested by the beautiful, flirtatious, and entirely overwhelming dressmaker.
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WHY WHY WHY Isn’t This Longer??
- By R. on 07-22-19
By: Alyssa Cole
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Beguiling the Beauty
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When the Duke of Lexington meets the mysterious Baroness von Seidlitz-Hardenberg on a transatlantic liner, he is fascinated. She’s exactly what he’s been searching for - a beautiful woman who interests and entices him. He falls hard and fast - and soon proposes marriage. And then she disappears without a trace.… For in reality, the "baroness" is Venetia Easterbrook - a proper young widow who had her own vengeful reasons for instigating an affair with the duke. But the plan has backfired. Venetia has fallen in love with the man she despised - and there’s no telling what might happen when she is finally unmasked….
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Worth multiple listens
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By: Sherry Thomas
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September 1911. On Ellis Island in New York Harbor, nurse Clara Wood cannot face returning to Manhattan, where the man she loved fell to his death in the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire. Then, while caring for a fevered immigrant whose own loss mirrors hers, she becomes intrigued by a name embroidered onto the scarf he carries...and finds herself caught in a dilemma that compels her to confront the truth about the assumptions she's made. Will what she learns devastate her or free her?
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Beautiful!
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Ava thought her job as a librarian at the Library of Congress would mean a quiet, routine existence. But an unexpected offer from the US military has brought her to Lisbon with a new mission: posing as a librarian while working undercover as a spy gathering intelligence. Meanwhile, in occupied France, Elaine has begun an apprenticeship at a printing press run by members of the Resistance. It’s a job usually reserved for men, but in the war, those rules have been forgotten. Yet she knows that the Nazis are searching for the press and its printer in order to silence them.
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Good story, disturbing narration.
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The fantasy novel you’ve always wished Jane Austen had written. When Jane realizes that one of Melody’s suitors is set on taking advantage of her sister for the sake of her dowry, she pushes her skills to the limit of what her body can withstand in order to set things right—and, in the process, accidentally wanders into a love story of her own.
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Great if you love speculative fiction and Austen
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On the midnight shift at a hospital in rural Maine, Dr. Luke Findley is expecting another quiet evening of frostbite and the occasional domestic dispute. But the minute Lanore McIlvrae—Lanny—walks into his ER, she changes his life forever. A mysterious woman with a past and plenty of dark secrets, Lanny is unlike anyone Luke has ever met. He is inexplicably drawn to her...despite the fact that she is a murder suspect with a police escort.
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Too dark for my taste
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After nursing a broken engagement with Jane Austen novels and Absolut, Courtney Stone wakes up and finds herself not in her Los Angeles bedroom, or even in her own body, but inside the bedchamber of a woman in Regency England. Who but an Austen addict like herself could concoct such a fantasy?
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Delightful
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Wildest Dreams
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Joletta Caresse's beloved grandmother dies, taking with her the secret to the formula of a legendary perfume that is now the most sought-after perfume on the market. Joletta tries to track down the formula through journals written by her ancestress, Violet Fossier, who in 1854 made a grand tour of Europe. As Joletta follows Violet's itinerary across the continent, the story goes back in time, to 19th-century Europe and a scandalous love affair that is intimately bound up in the mystery of the perfume.
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Made me cry
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Set across Istanbul and Oxford, from the 1980s to the present day, Three Daughters of Eve is a sweeping tale of faith and friendship, tradition and modernity, love and an unexpected betrayal. Peri, a wealthy Turkish housewife and mother, is on her way to a dinner party at a seaside mansion in Istanbul when a beggar snatches her handbag. As she wrestles to get it back, a photograph falls to the ground - an old polaroid of three young women and their university professor.
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Review 3 daughters of Eve
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From New York to Paris, Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald reigned as king and queen of the Jazz Age, seeming to float on champagne bubbles above the mundane cares of the world. But to those who truly knew them, the endless parties were only a distraction from their inner turmoil and from a love that united them with a scorching intensity.
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If you want to read about Zelda and Scott, move on
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By: Erika Robuck
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- Nikki
- 04-10-21
So beautiful
Such lovely and thought provoking story. And the narrators voice was so soothing to listen to. I loved everything about this story.
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- Darren Fleischer
- 01-04-19
Some may like this
I like sci fi, and the premise sounds intriguing. I’m just not too much into romance in my sci fi novels, so I gave it 3 stars. Others may give it 5 if they like that kind of stuff.
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- Catherine
- 11-28-20
Pleasantly Surprised
A slower, almost peaceful reading--I like slow, but I felt the character deserved a wider range of emotions. Still, this is the best "clone" type story I've read and liked the twist of why there are clones of people. The ending was fulfilling without feeling too perfect.
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- Claudia Mastroianni
- 07-03-22
Memory and selfhood
This is haunting and brief.
Some reviewers object to the romance, but I think in this case that relationship is an integral part of the plot. Still, if you have a low tolerance for sugar this may not be the book for you.
For meditations on what makes a memory, what makes identity, and what makes a person, do read!
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- Jeramy Fountain
- 10-26-22
Avoid if you don't like ASMR
The story is just OK. Nothing really to comment about. Better than I could ever write.
The narration is very breathy and close to the mic. When characters are talking, she does an excellent job at sounding like different people with different emotions. However, when narrating the main character's thoughts (most of the book), she stays close to the mic with a repetitive cadence and breathy, desperate tone. As someone averse to close talkers and mouth sounds, it made for an uncomfortable listening experience.
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- Nomada
- 01-03-21
Entertaining and nice niche
I am not too much of a fiction reader. It is the first novel I read in a while. I think the futuristic aspect of it pulled me in. I think it is well written. It's interesting enough to entertain and question. I don't know how to compare to the same genre.
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- Teal
- 05-24-21
Unusual striking and beautiful
This disturbing story pulls one into itself and holds a slow and building suspense. It is a cross between so many genre that is a complete original. I’m so so So glad I listened!
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- Eszter
- 03-31-23
It was ok
For a story with such a high concept, it felt kind of shallow. Maybe because the protagonist despite her internal dialogue, didn't feel exceptional in any way. We are told she is special and different to the other mems but I see little evidence of that. If it is an allegory about race, then her being so different to her catatonic or broken peers does not paint the picture I think it is intended to paint.
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- M. Layne
- 11-15-21
For fans of Klara and the Sun
A look from the outside in at what makes us human, how our experiences shape us, and how we interact with our memories. I look forward to seeing more from this author.
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- eae
- 02-26-22
What I wanted "Klara and the Sun" to be.
I am stingy with 5 stars, but this novel deserves every one. It is set in Montreal of the 1920's and '30's and a technology exists in which memories can be extracted. These memories, referred to as mems, "live" for a time independent of, but the legal property of, their source. One of these mems is unique - in ways best left to the reader to discover - but it is she who tells the tale. I came to care deeply about Elsie, and every other richly drawn character in this novel. Each and every one is multilayered and provides their own insights and perspective. Think of each as a piece of cellophane onto which a portion of a picture has been drawn. With each page you get a bit better idea of what you are looking at, but it is not until they are all in place that you have a full picture. And what a picture it is.
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