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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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Dream Angus
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Alexander McCall Smith, Alexander McCall Smith
harmonicus
, April 09, 2008
This book is a pleasant and quick read, but I'll stay away from the Canongate Myths series if the other titles in the series miss the mark the way this novel does. Taken on its own terms, it is a diverting and entertaining collection of loosely connected short stories. Perhaps, retelling myth is an impossibly self conscious task. Or, perhaps, the transitions from the myth sections, that read like a childrens' book, to modern romance and matrimonial discord are just too jarring. Or, perhaps, this is the best result of a publisher's contrived attempt at marketing by having famous authors write quick, insubstantial pieces based on romantic material.
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Red Bird
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Mary Oliver
harmonicus
, March 14, 2008
Effortlessly impeccable, this latest volume of poems from Mary Oliver is required reading for anyone who loves solice, joy and beauty, color, rhythm and tone, humor and loss through poetry. Any attempt to describe the poems here will miss the mark. So rather than fill this space up with more mere blandishments, let these poems fill your mind with light and music.
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Walking Artist
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Hamish Fulton
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, March 14, 2008
Hamish Fulton's art is perfectly minimalistic, post-modern, experiential, intangible and, ultimately, undefinable. His art is the experience of walking, of taking note while walking, and meticulously recording the walk as it weaves through space and time. Easily mistaken for photography, his art is like Tibetan mandala sand paintings that are brushed aside upon completion, their moment of being having-been. There is no object or artifact resulting from his work, and the book contains the work in the way a mirror contains what it reflects.
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Instruction Living the Life Your Soul Intended
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Ainslie Macleod
harmonicus
, March 14, 2008
Full of concepts that challenge accepted notions of reality, this well charted path to insight is designed to help the reader live the life he or she was meant to live. MacLeod was for many years something of a "reluctant psychic", but as soon as he acknowledged his spirit guides and started to work with them his life became better than he could have dreamed. He helps the reader to become aware of and communicate with his or her own spirit guides, and shows how they have always provided energy in moments of inspiration, intuition and growth.
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