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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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Riding Rockets The Outrageous Tales of a Space Shuttle Astronaut
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Mike Mullane
Anna Stead
, September 19, 2011
This is book was very funny and very graphic, even sort of gross at times. I learned a lot about the life of an astronaut. More than anything Mullane is the kind of writer that just likes to tell dirty jokes. This would be a good book to read on vacation. It's easy reading and you can get through it in a few days. I liked it because it's not very emotional. Mullane does discuss some tragic events and also goes through almost his entire life with an only mild melancholy tone at times. For the most part this is lighthearted, interesting, and different. I recommend it if you've got free time.
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Blinking with Fists
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Billy Corgan
Anna Stead
, September 15, 2011
If you love Billy Corgan, then you will love this! Buy this. It is filled with the most poignant, descriptive, heartfelt poetry, straight from the Master himself! No one can describe love, or loss, or the urging of a heart the way Corgan can. Beautiful imagery of course. This is pretty deep, long poems, not something you can read it a short time. The poems draw you in and allow you to experience the emotion inside- I loved it, and you will too. This book is wonderfully written! Enjoy!
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Madame Bovary
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Gustave Flaubert
Anna Stead
, September 12, 2011
I didn't think I would like this book and I actually really did! I can see why people are still reading it after all these years. Madame was just like me in many ways so I really identified with her. I liked reading about all of her lovers and manipulations and secrets. She got into much of the same kinds of trouble that people do today. I liked the characters and thought they were very realistic. Flaubert is the kind of writer that can paint a picture, or a scene, and you can visualize it perfectly. The book was kind of sad at the end, but I really liked how melodramatic the Madame was and I thought it was fitting. I read this just for fun and it really was just that! I recommend it and it reads very quickly.
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Shack
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William P Young
Anna Stead
, September 11, 2011
I didn't not like this book. I am a fan of religious and spiritual books and anything that strengthens my faith, or shows the grace of God, but I didn't even finish this one. Maybe if I had I would have found it to be as amazing as everyone said it was, but, to me it was too childish to go on. I didn't like the story and I thought the characters were corny and underdeveloped. I would not suggest this book. I got about 3/4 way through and maybe I'll go back and finish it and who knows, maybe even change this review, but the first time around I found this to be an unbearable read.
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Nausea
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Jean-Paul Sartre
Anna Stead
, September 09, 2011
This is the book that made me fall in love with philosophy and decide to do it for the rest of my life. I am currently in grad school and I still read it a couple of times a year. It brings me back to those first moments of falling in love with this discipline. Anyone who is looking for something and hasn't found it yet- this may very well be it. The greatest existentialist novel of all time in my opinion. This book is a classic read in philosophy, in existentialism, and in Sartre.
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Silence
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Shusaku Endo
Anna Stead
, September 05, 2011
This is one of my favorite books I've ever read. I has stayed with me for years. It's about the struggle between dying for what you believe in or living by renouncing your God and continuing to live an inauthentic life . Which is better? What would you do if faced with this choice? Is living really worth it at all in that case? Would you suffer, if that's what God asked of you? This book really made me take a hard look at myself. It made me better understand what suffering would be like and how hard it would be to make the choice I know is right. This book is perfect for anyone interested in existentialism. It is very deep and sort of dark, but you won't regret reading this.
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