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Goodhouse
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Peyton Marshall
Thomas H. Pruiksma
, October 16, 2014
It’s been a while since I picked a book off the shelf and felt compelled to read it without stopping, but that’s what happened with Goodhouse. It seized my attention. And what impressed me in the end was not just the storytelling, but the quality of the intelligence behind it. Goodhouse is a very smart read.
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Moon Before Morning
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W S Merwin
Thomas H. Pruiksma
, May 28, 2014
I have read Merwin's poems closely for many years and have long marveled at how he makes even the most ordinary seeming of words sing, but in this new book, I am newly amazed. It is harrowingly good. Merwin has achieved an even greater simplicity and authority, speaking directly of his life and his place and the love he has come to and the marvels always waiting to astonish us. It is the best book of poems I have read in years. I am astounded to live in the same time as he does. Here are just three of many favorite lines: In my youth I believed in somewhere else I put faith in travel now I am becoming my own tree
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The Song of Achilles
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Madeline Miller
Thomas H. Pruiksma
, January 02, 2013
It's been a long time since I've fallen in love with a novel, but I've fallen hard for this one. Not only does it tell an extraordinary love story, it does so in luminous, radiant prose. You can hear how deeply Miller's study of Homer has imbued her language with elegance and power. Not a single word is out of place. I'm going to be reading and rereading this book for many years to come.
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