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The Black Ballon Last-Minute Gift Guide!!!

December 19, 2011

Like The Great Gatsby and Ethan Hawke's The Hottest State, Julian Barnes’ novel The Sense of an Ending can easily be read in one sitting. For that reason (bonus reason: it creeped me out so hard I immediately wanted read it again) I’m putting it at the top of the first annual Black Balloon Last-Minute Gift Guide.

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