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A Cure for Suicide
A Cure for Suicide: A Novel | Jesse Ball
***LONG-LISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD*** From the author of Silence Once Begun, a beguiling new novel about a man starting over at the most basic level, and the strange woman who insinuates herself into his life and memory. A man and a woman have moved into a small house in a small village. The woman is an examiner, the man, her claimant. The examiner is both doctor and guide, charged with teaching the claimant a series of simple functions: this is a chair, this is a fork, this is how you meet people. She makes notes in her journal about his progress: he is showing improvement yet his dreams are troubling. One day the examiner brings the claimant to a party, where he meets Hilda, a charismatic but volatile woman whose surprising assertions throw everything the claimant has learned into question. What is this village? Why is he here? And who is Hilda? A fascinating novel of love, illness, despair, and betrayal, A Cure for Suicide is the most captivating novel yet from one of our most audacious and original young writers.
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shadowspeak17
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1. All Systems Red, Unwell Women, and Jane Eyre
2. A Cure for Suicide by Jesse Ball
3. Priestdaddy by Patricia Lockwood

#weekendreads

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shadowspeak17
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#Bookmail today! I‘ve been wanting this book since I read it two years ago. Finally caved and bought it. 😁

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shadowspeak17
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#3books I read based solely on their covers

I don‘t think I‘ve actually read a book solely because of the cover art before, but I definitely have read books because both the cover and the title caught my eye. That‘s what happened with these three, and they all turned out to be excellent books.

OriginalCyn620 📚👍🏻📚 4y
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This is a strange, but moving book. Dystopian, but not without some hope. Glimmers of Orwell or Ray Bradbury with a dash of the new weird of Jeff Vandermeer.

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KatieDid927
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A future where they can take the emotional pain away completely, but at what cost?

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shadowspeak17
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Total books read: 6
Ebooks: 4
Physical books: 2
Borrowed: 4
#booked2018 prompts completed:
2

Average rating: 3.08 stars

#SeptemberStats #SeptemberWrapUp

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Honestly, I picked this book up mostly for the title, and I‘m pleased to say that it did not disappoint. The form was rather unusual and it‘s pretty dialogue heavy, but I thought that worked really well, for the most part. The first half was great in both story and form. The second half got a little boring, but overall, I really enjoyed this.

#catsoflitsy #Phoenix #Ember

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"Forgetting is the precious balm that helps us to travel on, past the depredations of memory."

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Loving this book so far!

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If you like weird, dialogue-heavy books with sparse prose, you will probably like this book. A man awakens with no memories in a place called the "Gentlest Village" and a woman, The Examiner, teaches him how to re-learn about himself and the world. I wouldn't want to reveal any more than that. I enjoyed this strange read and slowly figuring out what was going on. 4⭐️

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I tend to do this thing where I start a bunch of books at the same time and make realllllly slow progress on all of them until I suddenly get my act together and finish them in quick succession. Does anyone else do this? These are only 3 of my current reads; I have an audiobook and an ebook going too. I'm not yet halfway done with any of them yet 😂 and all I can think about is starting another book!

SaturnDoo I do this too. I am a huge mood reader. I probably have 15 or more books started. But once I get going, I finish them all at once. My problem is I have so many books that I want to read and can't make any of them a priority. I am always game for starting a new one😁 6y
Owlizabeth Doing this right now! (edited) 6y
Mcoun Yep, sounds exactly like me. 6y
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Beachesnbooks @Owlizabeth @Mcoun Glad I'm not the only one! Lol 6y
Beachesnbooks @SaturnDoo Yes! There are just too many books out there to only read one at a time! 6y
Librariana Your caption is the story of my reading life 😁💖 6y
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So far, I'm not even sure what genre this book is--its weirdness and dialogue-heavy structure reminds me a bit of Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin (which I loved). A man referred to as the "claimant" awakens in a village to be re-introduced to the world by a woman referred to as the "examiner." He has no memories and we don't know why or what's happening, only that he almost died prior to the book's start. I'm intrigued.

mrozzz What! Must check this out.... 6y
batsy Oooh... Nice description, I loved Fever Dream too. 6y
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The ending of this book left me baffled yet mesmerized with Jesse Ball's writing style. Sometimes it was the easiest thing to breeze through; towards the end it hurt my eyes to focus and read. This novel baffled and enchanted me. It was so interesting and compelling but all I can say that it is a book. Weird way to start my spring break.

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hhharlow
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Fascinating, thought-provoking, deliberate. Love being dropped into a different world when you feel you can immediately trust the author.

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hhharlow
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Fascinating, thought-provoking, deliberate. Love being dropped into a different world when you feel you can immediately trust the author.

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hhharlow
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Multitasking. Love the stories the Olympics tell. Reading during commercials.

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NerdyRev
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Latest book pile! Speak by Louisa Hall, The Selected Works of TS Spivet by Reif Larsen (signed! He came last night), The Word Exchange by Alena Graedon, Phoebe and Her Unicorn by Dana Simpson (thanks @Liberty ), and the tagged book

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My cure for suicide. 🐱

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mauveandrosysky
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This is one of the most intellectually stimulating novels I‘ve read in a long time. It feels like an homage to Ray Bradbury and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Anthem in some ways, or like a drawn out episode of Black Mirror.

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