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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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Taipei
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Lin, Tao
Voli
, July 10, 2013
I took me approximately 2 months to read it but I don't know why. I felt often "moved" by this book but not in a way that you feel "moved" by seeing an indie movie or [another contextual possibly personal applicable comparison]. I feel like this book was written by a human not knowing that they were writing any book, rather that they were omnipresently narrating a period of their life objectionably, but still empathetically. Tao Lin seems to reach a peak (but maybe not plateauing or without upward motion - that all remains to be seen) of humanism in this novel not seen in his earlier books (which I enjoyed for different reasons). I felt a series of concrete and relatable important emotions in characters, and related to characters, while still being able to see the story from a third perspective, which seems important to mention. I thought I'd feel sad after I finished the novel, as one would after completing some "life-altering journey" but I feel only a quiet happiness. This novel seems important, in a way that novels are important staples that one must read in order to learn something critical about being human.
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The Son
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Meyer, Philip
Voli
, July 10, 2013
Family sagas can be fun reads, long, engaging and hopefully educational. They can, of course, be over-long, post too many characters to keep track of and become tedious. Sometimes, though, they exceed all expectations and levitate above the crowd in the genre due to the craft of their creation, the quality of their characters, and the depth of their historical portraits. Some, like Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude, Margaret Mitchell’s Gone with the Wind, and Pearl S. Buck’s The Good Earth rise to the level of literature. The Son also rises.
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