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Paris Is a Party, Paris Is a Ghost by David Hoon Kim
While I can recognise that Paris Is a Party, Paris Is a Ghost is far from a terrible novel, I donβt have a lot of positive things to say about it. Personally, I donβt think the world needed yet another novel about a modern-day (wannabe) flΓ’neur (who happens to be, you guessed it, an intellectual […]
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