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Feelings (Ruth Ozeki)

“Feelings” is a short story by author Ruth Ozeki, from her most recent collection of stories, The Typing Lady . What begins as a simple tale about two young girls, Meghan and Kai, and a homework assignment to apply compassion somehow to someone over the Christmas holidays and write about it, broadens in scope enough to shake a friendship and, perhaps in Kai’s mind, her emotional blindness. Parental relationships come into play, economic status, as well as the changing target...

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The Glass Hotel (Emily St. John Mandel)

Vincent is a bartender at the Glass Hotel, or as it’s first called, Hotel Caiette. It’s a five-star lodging on the northernmost tip of Vancouver Island. On the night she meets Alkaitis, a hooded figure scrawls a message on the lobby’s glass wall. It reads “ Why don’t you swallow broken glass ?” Alkaitis’s billion-dollar hedge fund empire is nothing more than smoke and mirrors. When his scheme collapses, it obliterates countless fortunes and devastates lives (like a Madoff external...

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Fifth Business (Robertson Davies)

Published in 1970, Fifth Business is Canadian author Robertson Davies external link ’ first part of the Deptford Trilogy. The novel begins with the childhood incident that shapes Ramsay’s life. As a young boy, Ramsay witnesses a traumatic event involving his schoolmate Percy Boyd Staunton and another boy named Mary Dempster. This incident sets off a chain of events that reverberate throughout Ramsay’s life. Ramsay becomes what he refers to as the “fifth business” in the lives of the people...

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