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Every year, the booksellers at Powell’s submit their Top Fives: their five favorite books that were released in 2023. It’s a list that, when put together, shows just how varied and interesting the book tastes of Powell’s booksellers are. I highly recommend digging into the recommendations — we would never lead you astray — but today...
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The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
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David Mitchell
Michael C Dawson
, August 01, 2011
You know what this book is? It's grumous. Look that up, not only because it well describes Mitchell's style, but because Mitchell is also one of the half dozen humans who have ever used it in an actual sentence -- right here in this very tome! If you enjoy novelists who write to flatter themselves and their readers for being self-appointed-smart and knowing the big words -- if you think "In the rice paddy beyond the garden, a cacophony of frogs detonates" is good writing -- then Mitchell's your boy. Personally, my word is "ptooey." I'd rather read the dictionary than suffer this kind of supposedly great, but actually lazy and pretentious gamesmanship.
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Class Dismissed: Why We Cannot Teach or Learn Our Way Out of Inequality
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John Marsh
Michael C Dawson
, August 01, 2011
Great book on a crucial topic. But, yo, Powell's: The author of this book is John Marsh, not Elton John!
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