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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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Ask
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Sam Lipsyte
Margaret Shindler
, October 05, 2011
Lipsyte's characters in "The Ask" speak to one another in an up-to-the-minute style of quips. If you read the internet news, are in your 30's or 40's and don't think most literature reflects reality, read this. The narrator,Milo Burke is the most self deprecating protagonist I can recall. He will leave you un-angry, ready to stop and breath into the present,and permission to laugh at the people who think they are better than you because of money. With unique humor, and right on ironies, I can see why this is on the Powells promising writers list.
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The Man from Kinvara
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Keiko (ILT) Hara
Margaret Shindler
, November 23, 2009
The stories in this book offer the unembellished comfort of humor and sympathy if you are a widow, a title I share with Ms. Gallagher. She writes characters who move from discerning just what is clogging the plumbing to eloquently explaining several rationals for carrying a handgun. Tess Gallagher is a timeless poet and storyteller, a woman's woman.
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Shoot the Damn Dog A Memoir of Depression
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Sally Brampton
Margaret Shindler
, February 25, 2009
The author gives the reader an inside view of severe clinical depression, such as I have never seen. With depression affecting as many as 1 in 4 people in the United States, it receives very little public attention. Ms. Brampton has done us all a favor in writing with such honesty about so personal a subject. Her 4 year journey through pain so intense it was often suicidal, ends with a note of hope. There is no magic bullet, and yet she found a combination of behaviors, supports, vitamins and medications which took her from the clutches of the black dog. Inspiring as well as crucially informative, even for those who have not experienced this level of depression. The reader is left with more tools with which to communicate and love a person in need, and that can only be good for all of us.
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Etty Hillesum
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Etty Hillesum
Margaret Shindler
, November 18, 2007
In these times of political corrouption, endless war and diminished social fairness the diaries of a young woman living in Nazi Occupied Holland offer some strange comfort to me. Etty Hillesum held onto hope and light in the midst of the unimagnable. She was able to touch people with genuine love. Her writing shines on the page.
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Flight
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Sherman Alexie
Margaret Shindler
, July 21, 2007
"Flight" could be described as Sherman Alexie's exploration of violence in it's many forms. He begins with an adolescent boy, who travels into other male forms and periods in history. Always faced with severely violent situations to manuever through, the man/boy begins to see brutality and it's cyle, coming to a sense of redemption. Even after drawing the reader through an Indian man's despair, with the positive closure style of Alice Walker and Barbara Kingsolver, the novel ends on a note of hope. This is a perfect offering for High School age readers.
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Animal Vegetable Miracle A Year of Food Life
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Barbara Kingsolver
Margaret Shindler
, May 26, 2007
Book Review by Margi Shindler: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life By Barbara Kingsolver Barbara Kingsolver, in her trademark ?chatting over the kitchen table? writing style shares a year of her family?s journey into sustainable consumption. Together they vow to eat only the food they produce, or that grown locally. Kingsolver admits she is not the first writer put this idea in print. She makes a point os noting Wendell Berry and several others who?ve been her inspiration over the past 15 years. The ?Green Revolution? and the? SLO Food Movement? are not a new concepts, but Kingsolver puts a lovely, homey face on them, much as her book The Bean Trees touched a soft spot in millions of readers hungry for fiction warm and meaningful. Kingsolver deftly brings her family into the imagery of this exploratory year, her husband, Steven Hopp, and her daughters Camille and Lily. The way each member?s point of view is represented is a statement in itself about how a commitment like this must be entered into if it is to work in a family. This becomes not a tome on ?right living?, but a picture of a nuclear family in America, integrating a sustainable and conscious life into all the other aspects of everyday existence. Each chapter arrives like a season, filled with anecdotes, information and recipes. One longs to be part of this dynamic family, to sit by the wood stove in winter or help can tomatoes in summer. In the course of this book, Kingsolver celebrates her 50th birthday. The food she was able to arrange within the locally produced rule was beautiful sounding. Homemade music, dancing, friends and healthy food seemed a perfect replacement for the now traditional black decorations and highly processed food. When we discuss nutrition in America, there is still a serious disconnect between the origin of the food type (i.e. bananas) and it?s distance from our table (oil). This must change, along with our national quest for health. How can we as individuals, be healthy if our daily food choices cause social inequity and environmental degradation? This book goes beyond the important work of Supersize Me, which broke new ground in the national conversation on diet and nutrition. Kingsolver asks the hard questions, about energy used to produce and transport the food we are now used to finding any time of the year in the grocery store, about factory farms where the animals live horrendous lives, about children who are the fastest growing sector of the population with type 2 diabetes. There remain countless dilemmas daily for the modern consumer, but this book will give you new perceptions and ideas. Reading Animal, Vegetable, Miracle may cause you to want to go out and buy a few acres of tillable land, or join a community garden... Please read this book.
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