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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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Tinkers
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Harding, Paul
YongJae
, February 22, 2013
This books exists in small fragments, in memories or poetic ramblings or reflections on nature. It succeeds in being even more in total than any of its lonely wanderings down the rabbit hole of early America are in part. What makes this book truly special, however, is in after earning the reader's empathy, asking of him whether or not the sum of the experiences is for the characters as fulfilling as it is for the reader. In Tinkers, Harding creates a vivid and heartfelt world full of nature, memories, and family. His diction is excellent and this book is worthy of praise.
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The Sisters Brothers
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Patrick Dewitt
YongJae
, February 22, 2013
Two hired gun brothers sent from Oregon to San Francisco to carry out a killing, but of course things don't go as planned. McCarthy comparisons happening already, but the humour makes it feel more like Portis's True Grit (albeit darker), but with McCarthy's unflinching gaze at violence. Put it on the shelf beside Dexter's Deadwood, & Ron Hansen - best literary western I've read in recent memory.
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What Does The Sky Say
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Nancy Whi Carlstrom
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, February 22, 2013
This is one of the better childrens books I've come across. The illustrations are beautiful with the writing even more so. There's more than meets the eye here and while my daughter enjoyed it I think I'm going to read it to her again when she's just a little older.
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Love Is a Canoe
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Ben Schrank
YongJae
, February 22, 2013
At first, I thought I would not like the book, that it would be too hokey and folksy for me. In fact, the opposite happened. I fell in love with it. It rings so true and the couple could be any one of a million of us. The book tells the story from Emily's point of view, Peter's, and Peter's publisher. We get a first-hand view of the clawing and cat fighting int the publishing industry and for those involved in this enterprise, it rings pretty true. This is a wonderful book.
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