BOOK REVIEW
⭐⭐⭐⭐/5
This one got a lot of mixed reviews, people seemed to love it, or hate it. Amanda and Clay are on vacation with their two children, renting a home in a quiet area of Long Island. The trip starts out unremarkable until a couple, knocks on their door late one night. The couple left New York City where there is a power blackout and ask if they can stay at the home, which they own. But with the TV and internet down, they aren't sure if they can be trusted.

They share the house and one strange occurrence after another happens. I saw the movie a while back and found them both, strange and intriguing. What do you think?

Full review and more at https://jturiao.com/book-reviews-fiction.htm

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‘Leave the World Behind’ Ending Explained: Author Rumaan Alam on the Significance of ‘Friends’ and the Accuracy of That Final Theory
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https://variety.com/2023/film/news/leave-the-world-behind-ending-explained-1235829444/

A new book spine poem, for the season that’s in it.

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Wintering

When things fall apart,
Leave the world behind:
Lurking underworld,
Wintering underland,
The beginning of spring,
The will to change
Almost there.

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With thanks to the authors: Pema Chödrön, Rumaan Alam, Joanne McNeil, Don DeLillo, Katherine May, Robert Macfarlane, Penelope Fitzgerald, bell hooks, and Nuala Ó Faoláin; and thanks to Nina Katchadourian for the idea.

Don DeLillo has appeared in a couple of posts on Sentence first, on wordable awareness (Falling Man) and Jack Gladney’s German lessons (White Noise). Robert Macfarlane has featured a few times, including in the book spine poem ‘Secret Place’, while bell hooks appeared in ‘Useless Crazy Heart’, another bookmash.

Penelope Fitzgerald and Nuala Ó Faoláin featured in ‘Not Scared’, with the same books as the one above. This is something I try to avoid, but it was 10 years ago and I’d lost track when I put this one together.

Let me know if you make one of your own.

https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2023/12/08/book-spine-poem-wintering/

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