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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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Doctor Sleep
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Stephen King
Molly flores
, February 26, 2015
Disappointed to this follow-up to The Shining. Something about the writing ��" especially the last half ��" felt lazy. It was also pretty cheesy at times and the pace grew slow. Was excited to read it, but didn’t find it creepy or even that interesting.
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Diane Arbus A Biography
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Patricia Bosworth
Molly flores
, November 28, 2012
It’s a longer read at over 300 pages, filled with dates and details that at times numbed my brain. The first half of the book was dedicated to Diane’s family (wealthy owners of the Russeks department store), and gives interesting insight into gender roles in the 1940's, 50's. No doubt, even before she met Lissette Model and starting shooting carnivals and dark alleys, she was a woman ahead of her time. A beat ahead of what was expected and allowed of her as an artist, photographer, a mother and a wife. Her life embodied managed chaos pretty well, she was by her own definition an “adventurer.” Bosworth captures this well, scouring through many interviews and personal accounts from people who knew her, as well as Diane’s own work. The second half started to lose me. Partially because of all the dates and details of “famous” people of the 60's/70's, art exhibits and too many tangents taken by the author. But mostly because I knew the ending already. I just needed to know how the ending came to be. Before I picked the book up, I knew little of Arbus other than the grainy photographs of her “freaks.” I could guess she had perhaps passed on, that she was indeed a darker person. Or rather, someone in the shadows, shining her light in the dark for the rest of us to see. Cancer maybe, I guessed, somehow assuming she was a nicotine addict. Car accident? Air plane crash Patsy Cline style? Getting closer to the final pages of the book, it started occurring to me that suicide was more likely. She was fascinated by it. She was also terrified of death and aging. Bosworth doesn’t focus on her death or pretend to answer any questions about why, she simply gives the facts and wraps it up in a few pages, almost too tidy. She certainly made an adventure of this life and Bosworth's writing and vast collection of personal stories reflects that.
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