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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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Across The Nightingale Floor
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Lian Hearn
Lanea
, August 25, 2008
I picked this up because it had been recommended by some friends. It has its charms, but it also has some giant, gaping holes that really annoyed me. I canât be bothered to continue with the series. I wonât say anything specific about the problems with plot or characterization, though, because it is a plot-driven story, and I think a lot of people with different tastes (i.e., not picky, bratty editors like me) would enjoy the book. The book follows two main characters: Takeo is a teenager who has grown up in a secret, apparently Christian enclave, who finds that his village has been destroyed and then learns heâs part of a secret clan of assassins. Kaede is a teenaged girl who has been promised in marriage to a man she hates. The two meet and become star-crossed lovers, of course, and they dance around each other during the course of the book. Takeo often seems like an idiot, because the author needs him to do something to advance the plot, but that âsomethingâ is irrational or downright stupid. Since heâs supposed to be a member of a brilliant, super-human clan of assassins, these moments of stupidity are particularly annoying to me. Itâs one thing when your pimply-faced fool character is doing idiotic things to advance the plot. But when the supposed genius natural warrior does it, things fall apart.
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Tain
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Thomas Kinsella
Lanea
, June 23, 2008
The quintessential translation on the Táin Bó Cúailnge, (the Cattle Raid of Cooley), one of the most important works of Irish myth. Kinsella's translation sizzles, and Louis le Brocquy's brush and ink illustrations depict the action with gorgeous simplicity. Any lover of mythology, action, intrigue, or art would love this book.
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Tain Translated from the Irish Epic Tain Bo Cuailnge
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Thomas Kinsella, Louise le Brocquy
Lanea
, June 12, 2008
This is an astoundingly beautiful, thrilling translation of one of the most important works of mythology Europe has produced. The story follows a cattle raid waged against Ulster by the tribes of Ireland, and one demi-god's war against the invaders. It's full of passion, violence, intrigue, loyalty, bravery, sex, magic, victory, loss--the stuff of myth the world over. Kinsella is a poet's poet, and a very talented translator. He gets right to the heart of the original Old Irish--a language few of us study--and captures its energy and precision and lyricism. Louis le Brocquy's illustrations are evocative and passionate and burned forever onto my mind's eye. I've read it over and over again, and I'm sure I will never find its like.
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Tree Talk Memories Myths & Timeless
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Marie France Boyer
Lanea
, November 29, 2006
This is a sweet little snack of a book. It contains photographs of famous ancient trees the world over, and stories explaining folk rituals practiced at or near the trees. The only downside, and it is a qualified downside, is that several of the trees photographed in India have swastikas on them. No, they're not Nazi symbols in this instance, but I always find the things jarring.
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