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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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Juliet
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Anne Fortier
Reader in an urban forest
, January 02, 2012
Fortier did a great job of pulling me into both medieval and modern-day Siena, Italy. It was fascinating to follow her literary gymnastics, weaving together Siena's historical feuding families, Shakespeare's classic tale, the versions that preceded his, and Fortier's modern day romance/adventure/mystery. It was an engaging, fairly easy read. The one downside for me was (slight spoiler alert) that the last bit began to feel a bit like "National Treasure" or "Raiders of the Last Ark." Still, a good read -- well worth an evening or two in front of the fireplace.
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Waterlily
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Ella Cara Deloria
Reader in an urban forest
, June 27, 2011
This book made a lasting impression on me. I guarantee it is unlike any other you have read. If I had written this review immediately after reading the book, I probably would have rated it slightly less. What I find now, years later, is that I remember the details and impact of the book far more than any other I have read in recent years. The author wrote it not only to share the life-changing events in the heroine's story, but also the mundane. Her intent, as an academic and as a Lakotah, was to leave us with a better understanding of the life of her people before and in the early stages of the white man's influence. While the book was not "difficult" reading, I did have to suppress my expectation and desire for the book to follow the patterns of typical fiction. But as a result, when the book ended I had a more complete "relationship" with Waterlily. She was fascinating. I still think of her frequently.
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