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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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Peanut Butter & Naan
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Jennifer Hillman Magnuson
jmanullang
, April 09, 2015
If I have a complaint, it's that the book isn't long enough. :) I would have loved more, more, more stories! I can relate to the author's desire to *do* something, and the great need to have her children experience a very different world. Parent or not, though, the book is entertaining and inspiring. As I always do with well-written books, I highlighted several paragraphs that spoke to me; my favorite was this: "Instead, I let my heart take the snapshot and begged the universe to never let me forget what this felt like." Those moments of utter awe are lovely and few.
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Notes to Boys: And Other Things I Shouldn't Share in Public
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Ribon, Pamela
jmanullang
, March 14, 2014
What I love about Pamela Ribon’s books is how they are simultaneously hysterical and heartbreaking. They’re like two, two, two books in one! Except they aren’t, because she manages to move between the two extremes--"giving more time to the hilarious, thank goodness--"in a way that feels completely normal. In “Notes to Boys,” Ribon adult-narrates her teen dorkiness. Her notes to boys are exactly that: uncensored bits from her journals and first drafts of notes--"some 200+ pages!--"detailing her ascent into madness. And isn’t that how must of us entered our teens, mostly sane until the hormones hit? What she shares will make most readers cringe and nod and laugh along with her... and dig around in their parents’ attic for their old journals. (That’s what I did anyway, and was disappointed to find that my teenage journals were far less interesting than Little Pam’s, though they were equally embarrassing.) “Notes to Boys” is another Pamela Ribon hit. She has woven these excerpts from her journals into a story that, like her earlier books, is both realistic, relatable, and an absolute joy to read.
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