Notes on Books & Life
I received The Sweetness of Tears by Nafisa Haji through LibraryThing’s Early Reviewers program. About the Book: Jo March has grown up planning a summer camp with her parents and brother, watching her Evangelical preacher uncle on TV, and anxiously waiting for her grandmother to stop home between mission trips. Jo has never wavered on …
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I have to start by asking, just because I’m curious: is anyone still reading Let the Great World Spin? I can’t believe how many people have told me they tried and couldn’t get into it, either for Reading Buddies or on their own. (There is a Goodreads thread going for Let the Great World Spin, …
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I first heard of Colm Tóibín in a college English class, where we read The Aspern Papers by Henry James followed by two contemporary novels that featured James as a character. Tóibín’s beautiful The Master was one of them. I loved its limpid prose and knew someday I would read more by Colm Tóibín. About …
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About the Book: It’s 1906, and Mattie Gokey lives in the Adirondacks of New York State with her father and younger sisters. Her mother is has recently passed away, and it’s up to Mattie to run the household while her father tries to keep the family farm alive. Mattie dreams of attending college in New …
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I read the YA novel Feed by M.T. Anderson with my new informal IRL reading group. About the Book: I usually write my own summaries, but I really like the one from the back of the book, so I’m going to use it: “‘We went to the moon to have fun, but the moon turned …
