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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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Snow in August
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Hamill, Pete
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, November 14, 2014
I found this book for $1 at a Library book sale -- it turned out to be priceless. While set in Brooklyn post WWII, it is both a universal coming-of-age story (admittedly autobiographical by Hamill) and yet full of timeless and startlingly poignant and clear lessons about prejudice, friendship, disappointment, risk-taking to do the right thing, family bonds and all wrapped up in magical realism. Key is how our hero, 11-year-old Michael Devlin becomes friends with a very aged Rabbi in need of both help on the Sabbath (Michael becomes a Sabbath goy, just as Hamill did) and in learning how baseball works. This all at the time when Jackie Robinson was breaking the color barrier and the Dodgers were the heart of Brooklyn. This is one of those books that it is hard to put down between reads and includes a bonus: Hamill's section at the end "On Writing Snow in August" where he makes clear "This book is not a tract. But it has a very simple theme: first we imagine, then we live." I am so glad to have found this book and to have experienced Hamill's imagining of how life can be if we imagine how it should be.
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Hunger Games Trilogy Boxed Set
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Suzanne Collins
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, January 30, 2013
I may be in my 60s, but good lit is good lit no matter what your age! While these books were written towards young adults and teens, the characters and scenes are alive for any reader and the themes and issues are universal, yet written so masterfully to fit the settings of Katniss and her cast. It was very hard to put them down.
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Letters of a Woman Homesteader
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Elinore Pruitt Stewart
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, January 20, 2012
I re-found this book in my daughter's collection when stuck in her Leadville, CO home with a cold over the winter holidays. The letters are full of charm, humor, incredible characters and her own, unique character, through her eyes and heart, those of a widow (with a little girl) as she braved the wilds of early 20th century Wyoming. Her frank language and descriptive skill so captured my interest that I could barely put the book down to blow my nose or sleep.
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Opposite of Fate
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Amy Tan
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, January 25, 2010
Choosing my favorite or best book of the past decade was truly difficult, but this one came to mind first and I'm sticking with it. This is a wonderfullly woven group of non-fiction pieces that provide a tapestry-like picture of Amy Tan's life as a writer, the daughter of an odd and amazing mother, a person in an ever-changing world. Her writing-life theme includes, e.g., a chapter on the "dreaded second book." Also are pieces on turning point, pinnacle moments--tragic loss, her Mom's mental struggles, her own medical challenges, a flood--and a lot of fun and wonder of her coming-of-writing-age time and the important people and events throughout. As a non-fiction writer myself, I was and continue to be inspired by Ms. Tan's skill at interlocking spirits and ghosts with dogs and husbands. Yes, this is my pick for the decade.
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Unstuck: A Supportive and Practical Guide to Working Through Writer's Block
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Jane Anne Staw
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, September 12, 2008
As a student of Jane Anne Staw's, I may be biased, but that's not important. She deserves all praise for this both autobiographical and advisory weaving of what it takes to open your creativity, how to go about it and how to mark and enjoy the process. While Unstuck is directed towards writers and would-be writers, her practical and emotional advice, and message, are beneficial to everyone searching in this arena of life. Oh, and every chapter ends with a great range of practices to try out!
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