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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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This Is Between Us
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Kevin Sampsell
ashraf
, December 16, 2013
This is the kind of book we should encode into sounds and shoot out to space for the aliens to pick up and understand who we are better. If we want to be honest with the aliens. So real and honest and observant and human, there's no easy arcs or sentiments here, but muddled, at-times cathartic cataloguings of the first five years in the first significant relationship for a mid-to-late thirties working class man and woman since their divorces. Each have a kid around ten that they bring into the relationship, along with their confusions from the last relationship, and ongoing confusions about how to be a person.
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This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage
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Patchett, Ann
ashraf
, December 16, 2013
I first fell in love with Patchett's writing with the novel Bel Canto. I wasn't introduced to her nonfiction until I read Truth & Beauty earlier this year. (It helps to have read it--a lot of these essays are autobiographical and touch on events chronicled there.) She writes with a poignancy and vulnerability and fearlessness that I find sucks me in and won't let me go.
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Bleeding Edge
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Thomas Pynchon
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, December 16, 2013
Totally enjoyable read, I loved all the New York circa-2001 specific references. This was certainly an enjoyable time by one of the most important american authors around.
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Knitting Yarns Writers on Knitting
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Ann Hood
ashraf
, December 16, 2013
Amazing. I don't knit but can feel my fingers following the stitches. Very good collection from various authors. My mother would have loved this book! I can see her fingers flying as I read the pages. I remember her knitting her granddaughter Fair Isle pieces. She's start with a purchased piece and knit the pattern to match. I read Barbara Kingsolver's Where to Begin three times. Her linguistic talent builds up and follows the rhythm of the knitters' needles.
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