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Book Review: Kapitoil
Kapitoil, by Teddy Wayne, is set in New York City in 1999. Karim Issar travels from Qatar to the U.S. to work with Schrub Equities, an investment firm, to work as a computer engineer on the Y2K bug. (Remember all the hype around Y2K??) Karim is close with his sister, Zahira, who is in school in Qatar, but his relationship with his father is tenuous. After just a few weeks in Manhattan, Karim invents a computer … Read entire article »
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Howdy! Loving the sun? My big news for the week is that Books Distilled is now on Twitter! You can follow me at @booksdistilled as I fall into this (hopelessly addicting) social media. Some great reading material from this week… I was super jealous because most book bloggers in the world were at BEA (the Book Expo America) in New York City last week. My new blogger friend Kit got to meet Margaret Atwood, which sounded AWESOME; … Read entire article »
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