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The Very Long Nineteenth Century (Akunin WQ 2-3)

Eliot Borenstein Tuesday, January 29th, 2019



Iin the beginning of The Winter Queen we see all the ways in which witnesses tried *not* to see the suicide happen.

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How the Self-Made Man is Made (Akunin WQ 1)

Eliot Borenstein Tuesday, January 22nd, 2019



Erast Fandorin gets bitten by a radioactive raznochinets and is granted super-raznochinets abilities.

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Rereading Akunin: An Introduction

Eliot Borenstein Thursday, January 17th, 2019



Why reread Boris Akunin? For that matter, why read him in the first place? And, for God’s sake, why blog about it?

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