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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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The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
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Catherynne M. Valente
thomsirveaux
, January 30, 2013
I don't have much interest in fantasy-type books, but Ms. Valente has for several years been a rare exception. She is well-versed in mythologies and fairy-tales from many cultures, but with this offering - the first in what Valente says will be a five-part series - her imagination is more fertile than ever, giving a few nods to Alice In Wonderful but mostly making something completely her own, with a heroine that is easy to root for and a Fairyland filled with creatures both familiar and less-so, but always intelligently and sympathetically rendered.
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Parallel Stories
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Peter Nadas, Pter Ndas, Imre Goldstein
thomsirveaux
, August 28, 2012
1000-plus pages of dense, humorless, and starkly beautiful prose. There is description and exposition upon description and exposition, and there are sudden jumps back and forth in time and between characters' points of view, adding a good dose of disorientation. Given this and the place and time frame covered in the book - Germany and Hungary just before the start of WWII up to the late 1980s - there are no happy endings or neat tie-ups for any of the characters. So why read this? Because despite the wealth of ugliness, there are a number of fascinating characters and many great insights into the human condition and will leave you thinking long after you set this aside for the night.
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