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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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Starter Pack: Where to Begin with Ursula K. Le Guin
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Invitation
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Oriah
Aranzazu
, January 28, 2009
As many others, I read The Invitation from mouth-to-ear _well, mail-to-mail. I've always been eskeptical on New Age literature or Inner Child books, and I still am, as The Invitation is a true, honest work on self-knowing and sharing. Oriah Mountain Dreamer doesn't give obvious advices on General Issues, but her own _often painful experience of life, love and creativity.
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Belle De Jour The Intimate Adventures Of A London Call Girl
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Anonymous
Aranzazu
, August 26, 2008
That's good writing, nobody could say the opposite. Nevetheless, supercute Belle has an issue with her diary _you know that she knows that you know that it is a fake. She does know that you do know she is a fake. Maybe there is where her (his?) talent relays _ that in spite of it, in spite of every customer is nicer and richer and more handsome than the previous one, nevertheless you enjoy the reading. It would be my Erotica reading of the year, if not for all the marketing along, the show _now we have a cover version on air in Spain, and everything that has ripped off the freshness of this wicked, stiletto experiment.
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Pope Joan Translated & Adapted from the Greek of Emmanual
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Lawrence Durrell
Aranzazu
, August 18, 2008
The best of this reading is how the author fells in love with sweet Joan. You'll start reading a satiric novel about Churches' hypocrisies, and will end with a moving story about humble people making a life and a dignity on their own. Beautiful, just that.
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Sushi For Beginners
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Marian Keyes
Aranzazu
, August 18, 2008
It's almost obvious that someone wrote thinking about a soon-to-convert-to-movie story. Anyway, I've had in my hands a nice story about people close to me, happy, but not-go-lucky neighbours of my dear Ireland. If the motto of this novel is "simplify, dude", I'm buying it.
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Marvel 1602
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Neil Gaiman and Andy Kubert
Aranzazu
, August 18, 2008
Perfect combination between Marvel's Classic Heroes and Ellizabethan period. If there's anything better than the text, that is Isanove's covers. Delicious, indeed.
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The Kite Runner
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Khaled Hosseini
Aranzazu
, August 18, 2008
A kind, nice story about two children lost in a war _whatever war, indeed. Pity that story gets also lost in useless descriptions of Afganistan, how muslims should pray (and they do in the wrong order!) or how nasty Talibans are, as if we didn't know. Read it for its beauty of feelings, but don't go for it in search of a story of today's Afghanistan.
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Wolf Dreams
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Yasmina Khadra
Aranzazu
, July 06, 2008
I have just finished my reading of the spanish edition of 'Wolf Dreams'. Its captivating, partial-monologue style makes the book impossible to leave. It's offered me 48 hours of continuing anguish and horror, this portrait of the senseless of war, specially all civil wars. I only could object to the story those paragraphs where the author insists on appearing to 'explain' the political algerian situation to her readers. To me, muslim and close to the arab world, it was like advertising or special news reports inside a beautiful fictional story, as I do know the meaning of arab words, muslim prayers and so. Furthermore, all those details explained made me such pain, literally watching them destroyed by fake guerrilla and fake fanatics. This cruel narration about power and ambition disambiguates all the orientalist, fashionable new narratives on Middle East.
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Goth Chic A Connoisseurs Guide To Dark Cult
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Gavin Baddeley
Aranzazu
, March 31, 2008
Fandom and pop culture are often misconsidered by critics and scholars, if not always. And it's pretty hard to study subcultures without a guide like this. Goth Chic is been written with earnesty, a well-documented bibliography, and the fair amount of irony to describe one of the most complexes phenomena in Pop Culture. An inspiring, enjoyable _and spooky book!
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Dune (Dune #1)
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Frank Herbert
Aranzazu
, May 06, 2007
When you get married, you have to accept your husband's obsessions. I had to accept endless speeches about Fremen and gom jabbars. A year later, I eventually read the book after a gamble, and I have to say not only I l-o-v-e Herbert's prose, but how amazed I felt about the story. Please, read this novel. Meet the Fremen. Respect the water and the treasures from our planet. Maybe we need Arrakis' Epics more than ever.
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Kingdom Coming The Rise of Christian Nationalism
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Goldberg, Michelle
Aranzazu
, May 06, 2007
I read the Dayly Dose on this book with Sid's comments and I would like to thank both Powells, Ms. Goldberg and Sid himself. If not for his comments, I would never added this book to my Wishlist. This kind of comments about enemies who want to kill us all are quite a point of how sharp Ms. Goldberg's ideas are. Yes, fundamentalists exist. They see the Other _muslims, jews, gipsies, euros as the enemy, and they would be dissapointed when terrorism dissapeared. Whom to blame then? Thank you Sid. I'll buy this book as soon I can afford it. God bless you _and this part's not ironic.
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Virgin Suicides
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Jeffrey Eugenides
Aranzazu
, February 09, 2007
I was forced to read this book. I am a member of a book club and "The Virgin Suicides" was a decission I never would take by myself to read _as this kind of stories make me creep. But I am grateful for having discovered Eugenides' clean and straight prose. The truth about the day-by-day hell those girls had to live makes you wonder not why they ended their lives, but how they could survive all those years before. Absolutely moving.
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