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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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Beautiful Soon Enough
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Margo Berdeshevsky
vfeatherstone
, August 11, 2012
Comprised of twenty-three stories, ranging in length from one to eight pages, these are artfully sculpted fictions conveyed with astonishing phrasing, yet transmitted with relative ease. Several stories are little more than evocations, narrative prose poems, yet are complete, wholly realized. Others offer a larger arc, journeys with layered dimensions and settings, and figural transformations. Some are more directly mythologically centered, contemporizing classic stories and archetypal figures, while others are indirectly informed by the tone and nature of classical myths and storytelling that emerge from the impulse of logos as a revelatory force and the drive to make meaning of our observations and our lived experiences. Equally poetic are Berdeshevsky’s alluring black and white photographs that act as accompaniments, indeed as an interstices, to the short fictions. Brevity serves these stories well, in part, because of the lushness and lyricism of the language. One wants to linger over a phrase. Many sentences rest confidently with a single word��"selected with precision. This is a writer who understands the power of language.
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Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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Rebecca Skloot
vfeatherstone
, January 01, 2011
This is an unforgettable book. Rebecca Skloot conveys the material in a compelling manner; she recognizes the way this story presents an intersection of microcosm and macrocosm, personal and global, with historical and contemporary relevance. Of all the books I've read this year, this one is my top recommendation.
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