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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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The Orchardist
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Coplin, Amanda
saraneil
, January 14, 2013
People don't write like this anymore -- long and slow and languid, with beautiful descriptions of everything. For this reason, along with the fact that I felt invited to crawl up into the characters lives and live there too for a while, this book really moved me. I'm still thinking about it months later.
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Reliable Wife
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Robert Goolrick
saraneil
, June 03, 2009
I was surprised Powell's backed this book so much. Did anybody in the store read it? I can appreciate that the book's style is deliberate, but that doesn't make the writing any less sophomoric. This is a sow's ear pretending to be a silk purse if I've ever slogged through the pages of one -- it's entirely set up like literary fiction, then when you get 50 pages in you realize your fourth grade cousin could have written it. And if they had, you'd feel rather sorry for them for having squandered their talent.
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