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The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton β book review
βA person’s fortune always changes in the telling of it.β Turns out that reading The Luminaries was a phenomenal waste of my time. Eleanor Catton writes well, and the concept behind her novel had the potential of being interesting, but on the whole The Luminaries seems to be little more than a dull rehash of…
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