Advanced Higher English Dissertation Novels by Dr Adam https://padlet.com/cljadam/qa685ockkbsyzmp1 Text & Task Ideas en-us 2020-04-27 21:44:03 UTC 2025-09-24 10:34:04 UTC hello@padlet.com "The Meursault Investigation" by Kamel Daoud cljadam https://padlet.com/cljadam/qa685ockkbsyzmp1/wish/537610744 Retelling Camus’ "The Outsider" through Arab eyes, this debut novel develops a specifically Algerian perspective on the absurd condition.]]> 2020-04-28 21:29:57 UTC https://padlet.com/cljadam/qa685ockkbsyzmp1/wish/537610744 "The Outsider" by Albert Camus cljadam https://padlet.com/cljadam/qa685ockkbsyzmp1/wish/537612498 "Camus helps you become 'the one who you are', and the revolt he incites brings you into a recognition of common human suffering." (The Guardian, 5.7.13)
THEMES; alienation; voicelessness; identity]]> 2020-04-28 21:31:09 UTC https://padlet.com/cljadam/qa685ockkbsyzmp1/wish/537612498 "Post Office", "Factotum" & "Women" by Charles Bukowski cljadam https://padlet.com/cljadam/qa685ockkbsyzmp1/wish/537616106 Uncompromising accounts of life on the edge. (Check out Bukowski's poetry too.)]]> 2020-04-28 21:33:40 UTC https://padlet.com/cljadam/qa685ockkbsyzmp1/wish/537616106 "Fight Club" by Chuck Palahniuk cljadam https://padlet.com/cljadam/qa685ockkbsyzmp1/wish/537616453 “The things you own end up owning you. It's only after you lose everything that you're free to do anything.”

Pair with "American Psycho"  by Brett Easton Ellis? (Similar themes & unreliable narrators.) ]]> 2020-04-28 21:33:56 UTC https://padlet.com/cljadam/qa685ockkbsyzmp1/wish/537616453 "American Psycho" by Brett Easton Ellis cljadam https://padlet.com/cljadam/qa685ockkbsyzmp1/wish/537619015 Told in first person narrative by Patrick Bateman, a Manhattan investment banker and serial killer. Not for the faint hearted!
THEMES: greed/materialism & consumption; hyper-masculinity.

]]> 2020-04-28 21:35:47 UTC https://padlet.com/cljadam/qa685ockkbsyzmp1/wish/537619015 "Seeing" by Jose Saramago cljadam https://padlet.com/cljadam/qa685ockkbsyzmp1/wish/537620512 Four years after the blindness epidemic, 83 % of the election ballots cast are blank. Horrified, the government places the city under siege and relocates, sure that chaos will ensue and that the ''subversives" will flounder. 

Pair with "Blindess" by Jose Saramago?]]> 2020-04-28 21:36:55 UTC https://padlet.com/cljadam/qa685ockkbsyzmp1/wish/537620512 "Blindness" by Jose Saramago cljadam https://padlet.com/cljadam/qa685ockkbsyzmp1/wish/537621148 A city is mysteriously struck by an epidemic of blindness which spreads rapidly and indiscriminately...
THEMES: the fragility of society; government control; human nature; survival]]> 2020-04-28 21:37:25 UTC https://padlet.com/cljadam/qa685ockkbsyzmp1/wish/537621148 "Happiness" by Aminatta Forna cljadam https://padlet.com/cljadam/qa685ockkbsyzmp1/wish/537622012 Two strangers collide in contemporary London:  Attila, a Ghanaian psychiatrist, and Jean, an American studying the habits of urban foxes. From this chance encounter disparate lives come together. 
THEMES: love & death; man & nature; obsession; betrayal

]]> 2020-04-28 21:38:02 UTC https://padlet.com/cljadam/qa685ockkbsyzmp1/wish/537622012 "Saturday" by Ian McEwan cljadam https://padlet.com/cljadam/qa685ockkbsyzmp1/wish/537623194 "An astonishing novel that captures the fine balance of happiness and the unforeseen threats that can destroy it. A brilliant, thrilling page-turner that will keep readers on the edge of their seats." (Book Browse)
THEMES: the inexplicable nature of evil; family relationships]]> 2020-04-28 21:38:53 UTC https://padlet.com/cljadam/qa685ockkbsyzmp1/wish/537623194 "Black Dogs" by Ian McEwan cljadam https://padlet.com/cljadam/qa685ockkbsyzmp1/wish/537624469 "“The work we have to do is with ourselves if we're ever going to be at peace with each other.”

Pair with "Saturday" by Ian McEwan?]]> 2020-04-28 21:39:44 UTC https://padlet.com/cljadam/qa685ockkbsyzmp1/wish/537624469 "Love in the Time of Cholera" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez cljadam https://padlet.com/cljadam/qa685ockkbsyzmp1/wish/537625519 The lives of individuals are woven together in a society faced with a plague-like health crisis. 
THEMES: suffering in the name of love; fear & intolerance of aging; emotional & physical plague]]> 2020-04-28 21:40:34 UTC https://padlet.com/cljadam/qa685ockkbsyzmp1/wish/537625519 "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez cljadam https://padlet.com/cljadam/qa685ockkbsyzmp1/wish/537627021 The story of the fictional Colombian town Macondo and the rise and fall of its founders, the Buendía family.
THEMES: love & perseverance; fate & free will; ]]> 2020-04-28 21:41:42 UTC https://padlet.com/cljadam/qa685ockkbsyzmp1/wish/537627021 "The Burning World" by JG Ballard cljadam https://padlet.com/cljadam/qa685ockkbsyzmp1/wish/537628609 In contrast to Ballard's earlier novel, this describes a world in which water is scarce.

Compare and contrast?]]> 2020-04-28 21:42:57 UTC https://padlet.com/cljadam/qa685ockkbsyzmp1/wish/537628609 "The Drowned World" by JG Ballard cljadam https://padlet.com/cljadam/qa685ockkbsyzmp1/wish/537629215 First published in 1962, J.G. Ballard's novel imagines a terrifying future in which solar radiation and global warming have melted the  polar ice caps and the oceans have risen to engulf most of the major cities of Europe and America.]]> 2020-04-28 21:43:26 UTC https://padlet.com/cljadam/qa685ockkbsyzmp1/wish/537629215 "South of the Border, West of the Sun" by Haruki Murakami cljadam https://padlet.com/cljadam/qa685ockkbsyzmp1/wish/537632030 Living in an affluent Tokyo suburb, middle aged Hajime wants for nothing. When Shimamoto shows up one rainy night Hajime starts to question everything.
THEMES: human fragility;  obsession; longing for the past]]> 2020-04-28 21:45:35 UTC https://padlet.com/cljadam/qa685ockkbsyzmp1/wish/537632030 "The Testaments" by Margaret Atwood cljadam https://padlet.com/cljadam/qa685ockkbsyzmp1/wish/537634503 2020-04-28 21:47:20 UTC https://padlet.com/cljadam/qa685ockkbsyzmp1/wish/537634503 "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood cljadam https://padlet.com/cljadam/qa685ockkbsyzmp1/wish/537635565 Love dystopian literature? Try Margaret Atwood &/or Naomi Alderman.
THEMES: the subjugation of women;  the manipulation of power; patriarchy; gender conflict]]> 2020-04-28 21:48:06 UTC https://padlet.com/cljadam/qa685ockkbsyzmp1/wish/537635565 "Birdsong" by Sebastian Faulks cljadam https://padlet.com/cljadam/qa685ockkbsyzmp1/wish/537639017 A mesmerising story of love and war set in the nightmare of Flanders.
THEMES: love & loss in wartime; the trauma of war]]> 2020-04-28 21:50:50 UTC https://padlet.com/cljadam/qa685ockkbsyzmp1/wish/537639017 "Captain Corelli's Mandolin" by Louis de Bernieres cljadam https://padlet.com/cljadam/qa685ockkbsyzmp1/wish/537640111 Set on the Greek island of Cephalonia during the Italian and German, a young Italian officer is at first shunned by the locals but then falls in love.
THEMES: love & loss in wartime

Pair with "Birdsong" by Sebastian Faulks?]]> 2020-04-28 21:51:40 UTC https://padlet.com/cljadam/qa685ockkbsyzmp1/wish/537640111 "The Man Who Planted Trees" by Jean Giono cljadam https://padlet.com/cljadam/qa685ockkbsyzmp1/wish/537640318 Prefer shorter reads? Try novellas. This one is about hope and how one man's efforts can change the future.]]> 2020-04-28 21:51:49 UTC https://padlet.com/cljadam/qa685ockkbsyzmp1/wish/537640318 "The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists" by Robert Tressel cljadam https://padlet.com/cljadam/qa685ockkbsyzmp1/wish/537644112 Match with "Hard Times" by Charles Dickens and/or "The Grapes of Wrath" by John Steinbeck?
THEMES: the exploitative nature of capitalism; the impact of poverty]]> 2020-04-28 21:54:35 UTC https://padlet.com/cljadam/qa685ockkbsyzmp1/wish/537644112 "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" by F Scott Fitzgerald cljadam https://padlet.com/cljadam/qa685ockkbsyzmp1/wish/537651339 Love "The Great Gatsby"? Try something else by Fitzgerald.

Benjamin Button is born as an 80-year-old man in New Orleans just after World War I and proceeds to grow younger as time passes.]]> 2020-04-28 22:00:32 UTC https://padlet.com/cljadam/qa685ockkbsyzmp1/wish/537651339 "Ignorance" by Milan Kundera cljadam https://padlet.com/cljadam/qa685ockkbsyzmp1/wish/538481265 A man and a woman meet by chance while returning to their homeland which they had abandoned twenty years earlier. Will they manage to pick up the thread of their strange love story?
THEMES: memory (illusion of) &  forgetting; absence; nostalgia for homeland]]> 2020-04-29 08:41:36 UTC https://padlet.com/cljadam/qa685ockkbsyzmp1/wish/538481265 "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting" by Milan Kundera cljadam https://padlet.com/cljadam/qa685ockkbsyzmp1/wish/538484628 In seven integrated parts, this novel shares the longings of  men and women living in oppressive worlds.

Pair with "Ignorance" by Milan Kundera?]]> 2020-04-29 08:43:02 UTC https://padlet.com/cljadam/qa685ockkbsyzmp1/wish/538484628 "The Sea" by John Banville cljadam https://padlet.com/cljadam/qa685ockkbsyzmp1/wish/538486249 “Happiness was different in childhood...a matter simply of accumulation, of taking things - new experiences, new emotions - and applying them like so many polished tiles...”
THEMES: the unpredictable power of memory; childhood; loss]]> 2020-04-29 08:43:46 UTC https://padlet.com/cljadam/qa685ockkbsyzmp1/wish/538486249 SECONDARY SOURCE cljadam https://padlet.com/cljadam/qa685ockkbsyzmp1/wish/538488470

]]> 2020-04-29 08:44:48 UTC https://padlet.com/cljadam/qa685ockkbsyzmp1/wish/538488470 "Dirt Music" by Tim Winton cljadam https://padlet.com/cljadam/qa685ockkbsyzmp1/wish/538496914 Set in the dramatic landscape of Western Australia,  "a love story about people stifled by grief and regret; about the odds of breaking with the past and about the lure of music". (Book Browse)]]> 2020-04-29 08:48:22 UTC https://padlet.com/cljadam/qa685ockkbsyzmp1/wish/538496914 "Siddartha" by Hermann Hesse cljadam https://padlet.com/cljadam/qa685ockkbsyzmp1/wish/538498547 The spiritual journey of self-discovery of a man named Siddhartha during the time of the Gautama Buddha.
THEMES: the search for enlightenment; self discovery; truth & illusion

Pair with "The Moon and Sixpence" by Somerset Maugham or another Hesse text?]]> 2020-04-29 08:49:04 UTC https://padlet.com/cljadam/qa685ockkbsyzmp1/wish/538498547 "Narcissus and Goldmund" by Hermann Hesse cljadam https://padlet.com/cljadam/qa685ockkbsyzmp1/wish/538500384 A moving, symbolic novel of friendship between an intellectual teacher and a restless, wandering artist.
THEMES: good & evil; joy & sorrow, thinking & dreaming]]> 2020-04-29 08:49:53 UTC https://padlet.com/cljadam/qa685ockkbsyzmp1/wish/538500384 "The Moon and Sixpence" by W. Somerset Maugham cljadam https://padlet.com/cljadam/qa685ockkbsyzmp1/wish/538501920 Charles Strickland, a conventional stockbroker, abandons his wife and children for Paris and Tahiti, to live his life as a painter
THEMES: passion; disillusionment; the quest for purpose in life

Pair with "Of Human Bondage" by W. Somerset Maugham?]]> 2020-04-29 08:50:29 UTC https://padlet.com/cljadam/qa685ockkbsyzmp1/wish/538501920 "The Sense of an Ending" by Julian Barnes cljadam https://padlet.com/cljadam/qa685ockkbsyzmp1/wish/538505797 "A novel so compelling that it begs to be read in a single sitting, with stunning psychological and emotional depth and sophistication." (Goodreads)
THEMES: regret; memory; responsibility]]> 2020-04-29 08:52:10 UTC https://padlet.com/cljadam/qa685ockkbsyzmp1/wish/538505797 "Levels of Life" by Julian Barnes cljadam https://padlet.com/cljadam/qa685ockkbsyzmp1/wish/538507222 Opening lines: "You put two things together that have not been put together before. And the world is changed."
THEMES: grief; love & loss

]]> 2020-04-29 08:52:46 UTC https://padlet.com/cljadam/qa685ockkbsyzmp1/wish/538507222 "The Kiss of the Spider Woman" by Manuel Puig cljadam https://padlet.com/cljadam/qa685ockkbsyzmp1/wish/538507695 In an Argentine prison, two men share a cell and both are gradually transformed by their guarded but growing friendship. THEMES: forbidden love; desire; repression

Pair with "Lolita" by Vladimir Nabokov?]]> 2020-04-29 08:52:58 UTC https://padlet.com/cljadam/qa685ockkbsyzmp1/wish/538507695 "Lolita" by Vladimir Nabakov cljadam https://padlet.com/cljadam/qa685ockkbsyzmp1/wish/538510774 Nabokov's most famous and controversial novel tells the story of the aging Humbert Humbert's obsessive, doomed passion for a young girl.
THEMES: forbidden love; desire; repression

]]> 2020-04-29 08:54:02 UTC https://padlet.com/cljadam/qa685ockkbsyzmp1/wish/538510774 "The Human Stain" by Phillip Roth cljadam https://padlet.com/cljadam/qa685ockkbsyzmp1/wish/538515251 America, 1998. An aging classics professor is forced to retire when his colleagues accuse him of racism.
THEMES: identity & self-invention; morality; rebellion]]> 2020-04-29 08:55:46 UTC https://padlet.com/cljadam/qa685ockkbsyzmp1/wish/538515251 "The Girls" by Emma Cline cljadam https://padlet.com/cljadam/qa685ockkbsyzmp1/wish/538518469 “Spellbinding . . . a seductive and arresting coming-of-age story.” (The New York Times Book Review)]]> 2020-04-29 08:57:01 UTC https://padlet.com/cljadam/qa685ockkbsyzmp1/wish/538518469 "Do Not Say we Have Nothing" by Madeleine Thien cljadam https://padlet.com/cljadam/qa685ockkbsyzmp1/wish/538521063 Canada 1990. Ten-year-old Marie and her mother invite a guest into their home, a young woman who has fled China in the aftermath of the Tiananmen Square protests.

]]> 2020-04-29 08:58:06 UTC https://padlet.com/cljadam/qa685ockkbsyzmp1/wish/538521063 "The Underground Railroad" by Colson Whitehead cljadam https://padlet.com/cljadam/qa685ockkbsyzmp1/wish/538522809 "This thrilling, genre-bending tale of escape from slavery in the American deep south contains extraordinary prose and uncomfortable home truths" (The Guardian, 9.10.16)]]> 2020-04-29 08:58:54 UTC https://padlet.com/cljadam/qa685ockkbsyzmp1/wish/538522809 "A Whole Life" by Robert Seethaler cljadam https://padlet.com/cljadam/qa685ockkbsyzmp1/wish/538523146 Another shorter text. This is a moving novella about finding dignity and beauty in solitude. 

Pair with another text with similar themes (e.g. "Stoner" by John Williams)?

]]> 2020-04-29 08:59:02 UTC https://padlet.com/cljadam/qa685ockkbsyzmp1/wish/538523146 "The Power" by Naomi Alderman cljadam https://padlet.com/cljadam/qa685ockkbsyzmp1/wish/538525432 THEMES: power, privilege & toxic masculinity]]> 2020-04-29 08:59:59 UTC https://padlet.com/cljadam/qa685ockkbsyzmp1/wish/538525432 "The Sisters Brothers" by Patrick deWitt cljadam https://padlet.com/cljadam/qa685ockkbsyzmp1/wish/538527370 Hermann Kermit Warm is going to die. The enigmatic and powerful man known only as the Commodore has ordered it, and his henchmen, Eli and Charlie Sisters, will make sure of it.
THEMES: conflict; corruption; loneliness]]> 2020-04-29 09:00:48 UTC https://padlet.com/cljadam/qa685ockkbsyzmp1/wish/538527370 "No Country for Old Men" by Cormac McCarthy cljadam https://padlet.com/cljadam/qa685ockkbsyzmp1/wish/538529157 June 1980, Terrell County, Texas...Sheriff Bell reflects on the increasingly out of control violence in the area. Meanwhile, a hitman  escapes custody by strangling to death the deputy who arrested him.

Pair with "The Sisters Brothers" by Patrick deWitt?
]]> 2020-04-29 09:01:34 UTC https://padlet.com/cljadam/qa685ockkbsyzmp1/wish/538529157 "Lanny" by Max Porter cljadam https://padlet.com/cljadam/qa685ockkbsyzmp1/wish/538531108 "Shimmering with the uncanny: it's a remarkable feat of literary virtuosity." (Sunday Times)


]]> 2020-04-29 09:02:28 UTC https://padlet.com/cljadam/qa685ockkbsyzmp1/wish/538531108 "Grief is the Thing with Fathers" by Max Porter cljadam https://padlet.com/cljadam/qa685ockkbsyzmp1/wish/538532088 Something totally different: "the dark, comic, wild, beautiful prose-poem-novel". ("The Guardian" 8.3.19)]]> 2020-04-29 09:02:54 UTC https://padlet.com/cljadam/qa685ockkbsyzmp1/wish/538532088 "The Magic Toyshop" by Angela Carter cljadam https://padlet.com/cljadam/qa685ockkbsyzmp1/wish/538532580 After Melanie's parents die in a plane crash, she and her siblings go to live with their tyrant of an uncle. A malevolent fairytale with lots of gothic elements.
THEMES: the search for self; loss of innocence; family relations]]> 2020-04-29 09:03:07 UTC https://padlet.com/cljadam/qa685ockkbsyzmp1/wish/538532580 REVIEW "The Testaments" cljadam https://padlet.com/cljadam/qa685ockkbsyzmp1/wish/538534425
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]]> 2020-05-03 11:09:23 UTC https://padlet.com/cljadam/qa685ockkbsyzmp1/wish/546640021 IDEAS FOR USING THIS RESOURCE cljadam https://padlet.com/cljadam/qa685ockkbsyzmp1/wish/546645319 2020-05-03 11:13:58 UTC https://padlet.com/cljadam/qa685ockkbsyzmp1/wish/546645319 "Anil's Ghost" by Michael Ondaatje cljadam https://padlet.com/cljadam/qa685ockkbsyzmp1/wish/546887727 Sent by an international human rights group to discover the source of the organised campaigns of murder engulfing the island,  Anil returns to her homeland of Sri Lanka 

Pair with "Happiness" by Aminatta Forna?]]> 2020-05-03 14:05:31 UTC https://padlet.com/cljadam/qa685ockkbsyzmp1/wish/546887727 "Women" by Charles Bukowski cljadam https://padlet.com/cljadam/qa685ockkbsyzmp1/wish/546913211 2020-05-03 14:20:23 UTC https://padlet.com/cljadam/qa685ockkbsyzmp1/wish/546913211 "Factotum" by Charles Bukowski cljadam https://padlet.com/cljadam/qa685ockkbsyzmp1/wish/546916086 2020-05-03 14:21:52 UTC https://padlet.com/cljadam/qa685ockkbsyzmp1/wish/546916086 This free course is designed to develop the analytical skills you need for a more in-depth study of literary texts. You will learn about narrative events and perspectives, the setting of novels, types of characterisation and genre. cljadam https://padlet.com/cljadam/qa685ockkbsyzmp1/wish/549729268 Really helpful for Advanced Higher English dissertation and textual analysis.]]> 2020-05-04 15:46:44 UTC https://padlet.com/cljadam/qa685ockkbsyzmp1/wish/549729268 "Stoner" by John Williams cljadam https://padlet.com/cljadam/qa685ockkbsyzmp1/wish/551892081 "John Williams’s luminous and deeply moving novel is a work of quiet perfection. William Stoner emerges from it not only as an archetypal American, but as an unlikely existential hero." (Goodreads)]]> 2020-05-05 12:25:12 UTC https://padlet.com/cljadam/qa685ockkbsyzmp1/wish/551892081 "The Nickel Boys" by Colson Whitehead cljadam https://padlet.com/cljadam/qa685ockkbsyzmp1/wish/782244551 Addressing another strand of American history through the story of two boys sentenced to a reform school in the Jim Crow era which barred African-Americans from being full American citizens.]]> 2020-09-27 10:18:44 UTC https://padlet.com/cljadam/qa685ockkbsyzmp1/wish/782244551 "Girl, Woman, Other" by Bernardine Evaristo cljadam https://padlet.com/cljadam/qa685ockkbsyzmp1/wish/782248840 "The interconnected stories of a group of black British women raise timeless questions about feminism and race." ("The Guardian" 8.5.19)]]> 2020-09-27 10:24:56 UTC https://padlet.com/cljadam/qa685ockkbsyzmp1/wish/782248840 "Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982" by Cho Nam-Joo cljadam https://padlet.com/cljadam/qa685ockkbsyzmp1/wish/782252037 The life story of a young woman born at the end of the 20th century raises questions of misogyny and institutional oppression  that are relevant to all of us.]]> 2020-09-27 10:28:50 UTC https://padlet.com/cljadam/qa685ockkbsyzmp1/wish/782252037 "Ten Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World" by Elif Shafak cljadam https://padlet.com/cljadam/qa685ockkbsyzmp1/wish/782255946 "Shafak takes a piercing, unflinching look at the trauma women’s minds and bodies are subjected to in a social system defined by patriarchal codes... a brutal book... but ultimately life-affirming." ("The Guardian", 12.9.19)]]> 2020-09-27 10:35:04 UTC https://padlet.com/cljadam/qa685ockkbsyzmp1/wish/782255946 "Pine" by Francine Toon cljadam https://padlet.com/cljadam/qa685ockkbsyzmp1/wish/2215312358 "In the shadow of the Highland forest, Francine Toon captures the wildness of rural childhood and the intensity of small-town claustrophia."]]> 2022-06-08 18:06:19 UTC https://padlet.com/cljadam/qa685ockkbsyzmp1/wish/2215312358 "Snow" by John Banville cljadam https://padlet.com/cljadam/qa685ockkbsyzmp1/wish/2215320366 Detective Inspector St John Strafford is called in from Dublin to investigate a murder at Ballyglass House..."
THEMES: hypocrisy; social class; secrecy.]]> 2022-06-08 18:14:37 UTC https://padlet.com/cljadam/qa685ockkbsyzmp1/wish/2215320366 "At Night All Blood is Black" by David Diop cljadam https://padlet.com/cljadam/qa685ockkbsyzmp1/wish/2215325488 Described as a “powerful, hypnotic, and dark novel” (Livres Hebdo) of terror and transformation in the trenches of the First World War
THEMES: the horror or war; man's descent into madness.]]> 2022-06-08 18:20:11 UTC https://padlet.com/cljadam/qa685ockkbsyzmp1/wish/2215325488 "The Midnight Library" by Matt Haig cljadam https://padlet.com/cljadam/qa685ockkbsyzmp1/wish/2215326195 "Between life and death there is a library, and within that library, the shelves go on forever. Every book provides a chance to try another life you could have lived. To see how things would be if you had made other choices . . . Would you have done anything different, if you had the chance to undo your regrets?"
THEMES: regret; choices.]]> 2022-06-08 18:21:01 UTC https://padlet.com/cljadam/qa685ockkbsyzmp1/wish/2215326195 "Weather" by Jenny Offill cljadam https://padlet.com/cljadam/qa685ockkbsyzmp1/wish/2215331008 "A work of environmental literary fiction about a woman named Lizzie who gets sucked into the world of climate doomers and doomsday preppers."]]> 2022-06-08 18:26:40 UTC https://padlet.com/cljadam/qa685ockkbsyzmp1/wish/2215331008 "Burnt Sugar" by Avni Doshi cljadam https://padlet.com/cljadam/qa685ockkbsyzmp1/wish/2215335226 "This exquisitely written debut novel sizzles with cruelties and betrayals, as ordinary family life in India turns into a nightmare."]]> 2022-06-08 18:31:46 UTC https://padlet.com/cljadam/qa685ockkbsyzmp1/wish/2215335226