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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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Educated: A Memoir
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Tara Westover
Nancy London
, March 24, 2018
Riveting. The author grew up in fundamentalist Mormon family, scraping metal in her father's junk yard. She had never attended school, never seen a doctor. As a young adult, her education brings into question everything she was raised to believe. And when as an adult she confronts her abusive older brother, the family rejects her, saying she is possessed of the devil. A powerful book about how we deny what we know in order to keep the love we need.
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Love and Trouble: A Midlife Reckoning
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Claire Dederer
Nancy London
, August 24, 2017
this memoir moves back and forth between a 45 year old woman having a midlife crisis, crying, unable to get out of bed, and her her lost years as a promiscuous teenager and young woman. sex was everything. sex was nothing. sex was supposed to save her from taking responsibility for her life. she has domination fantasies, writes in the passive voice occasionally, finally owns up to liking, loving, craving sex. she's funny, and serious, and a very good writer.
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Hourglass: Time, Memory, Marriage
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Dani Shapiro
Nancy London
, July 30, 2017
This book absolutely brought me to tears....the author writes of her marriage of eighteen years to the man she refers to as M...she looks back on their beginning, love at first sight, and writes to that younger woman about all the things she did not know..the beauty and the terror that awaited them: almost losing their only child to a rare disease, living on the thin edge financially, burying two parents, grieving another's descent into dementia. This book speaks to the courage it takes for any of us daring enough to commit to someone, something for life, willing to hold to the early promise of love no matter where the road leads.
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The Course of Love
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Alain de Botton
Nancy London
, December 18, 2016
The Course of Love follows a young couple who meet and believe they have found their soul mate, the triumph of romantic love. They expect to be understood without speaking, have their wishes anticipated, their sexual fantasies fulfilled. They have children, struggle to pay the mortgage, grow increasingly despairing that their misunderstandings mean they have married the wrong person. He strays into adultery, then realizes he wants the stability of his marriage more than he wants adventure. They eventually see a therapist who helps them decode the other's behavior, and after nearly two decades of marriage, are finally ready to be married. "A loving marriage and children kill spontaneity, and an affair kills a marriage," the husband muses to himself. This book is a must read for anyone contemplating romantic marriage, or for those of us in long term marriages who sometimes wonder if anyone else feels the way we do.
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The Art of Memoir
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Mary Karr
Nancy London
, October 30, 2015
I've read many books on memoir writing but this is the definitive....no handy tips on how to write dialogue..instead, down to the bone talk about what it really takes to find your authentic writer's voice..the digging for the truths that have been buried, the grit to speak them out loud on the page. Karr spent years running from the truth of her past, and generously gives us examples of the stale writing that avoidance produced. This book is like taking her coveted seminar on memoir writing.
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The Harder They Come
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T.C. Boyle
Nancy London
, June 03, 2015
This book is disturbing and brilliant...the author's blade sharp depiction of a violent affluent Vietnam vet, his son who is everyone worst nightmare of a gun toting mentally unstable youth, his older lover who defies all authority...set in Mendocino with tourists floating in and out, a shining blue sea, and a 9 hole golf course, it's a ruthless portrait of the aftermath of war and the legacy of intergenerational violence
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Complicated Kindness
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Miriam Toews
Nancy London
, February 27, 2015
I loved the author's latest book All My Puny Sorrows so I decided to backtrack and read an earlier one. The heroine, Nomi, is 16, coming of age in a small Mennonite community in Canada, full of confusion and grief over the disappearance of her mother and sister, caring for her odd duck father, trying out sex, drowning in drugs. Her voice is heartbreaking, hilarious, bitter, wise. Toews kind of rambles, but always knows where she is going.
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The Last Goodnights: Assisting My Parents with Their Suicides
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John West
Nancy London
, November 23, 2014
the author John West's parents..bright, engaged, health care professionals with terminal illnesses, ask him to help them commit suicide. This book is an emotional read...first the assisted suicide of the author's father, and then nine months later, his mother's death from an overdose he helped her swallow. West knew he was placing himself in legal jeopardy, suffered incredible stress, but believed we all have the right to chose when and how we die.
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Sleepwalkers Guide to Dancing A Novel
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Mira Jacob
Nancy London
, November 09, 2014
I loved this book..the family of four leaving India and adapting to America, the sari wearing aunties, the pitch perfect dialogue, the lush feasts. At the heart of the book is a tender study of each character's growth and compassion for each other as they deal with the death of a beloved. Engrossing.
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Maytrees
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Annie Dillard
Nancy London
, May 20, 2014
Annie Dillard's novel invokes the natural world...endless seascapes, starry skies, beach flats at the tip of Cape Cod in Provincetown, as vividly as any of her nonfiction writing, but this book follows the fictional lives Lou and Maytree as they meet, mate, parent, and grow old, as rooted to their landscape as their beloved sand dunes. Dillard explores with lyrical writing the complexity of love and loyalty, and our place in a vast unknowable universe.
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Knocking on Heavens Door The Path to a Better Way of Death
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Katy Butler
Nancy London
, March 12, 2014
This book broke my heart. The author's father suffers a stroke, gets shunted into mainstream medicine, and spends the next five years in a vegetative state. Her mother becomes primary caregiver and eventually cracks under at the strain, resorting to yelling and violence towards the man she loves. None of us thinks this can happen to us, our parents, or our loved ones, but it can and does. This book opens up a conversation about our society's obsession with keeping us alive long past the moment it might be the right time to die.
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Slow Motion
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Dani Shapiro
Nancy London
, January 19, 2014
An Orthodox Jewish girl grows up to be the beautiful young mistress of a powerful New York trial lawyer. Furs. Diamonds. Fast cars. Trips to Europe. Alcohol and cocaine addiction. Sounds like a juicy novel, but it's actually Dani Shapiro's memoir. Highly recommended.
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