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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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Just My Type A Book about Fonts
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Simon Garfield
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, September 07, 2011
Full disclosure: I am one of those people whose pulse races when looking at -- or reading about -- fonts. So this book was a romance and a thriller in one for me. I love reading about the provenance of each font, the teeny, tiny differences, the anecdotes, the flubs. I learned that I like the Bembo font. I can only imagine the conversations about what type to set the book in (Sabon) and how hard the checkers had to work to make sure each font sample was correct. Yikes!
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The Road
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Cormac McCarthy
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, February 04, 2010
I'm an editor and what I most admire about every Cormac McCarthy book is that I wouldn't remove -- or add -- one single word to his works in order to improve them.
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
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Mary Ann Shaffer
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, January 01, 2010
This book had it all -- characters you'd like as friends, a setting that you were happy to learn more about, a plot that delivered history along with emotions ranging from pathos to humor. I knew next to nothing about the Channel Islands, including the fact that they had been occupied by the Germans during WWII and I came away from this novel wanting to go and walk where these characters walked. Finally, I loved the method used to advance the story -- personal letters among the characters. It challenged the reader to "read between the lines" rather than simply be told what to know from the authors.
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