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Matt’s 2025 Year in Books
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| A little book that packs a big punch: raw and vulnerable and entrancing. Beautifully written. It may have worked more for me as a straightforward memoir rather than an episodic novel in stories, but I appreciate the narrative as-is. P.S., the passage ...more | |
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| No surprise that this book landed on Independent Book Review's 2025 Best Of list. With We Never Took a Bad Picture, Roth makes a go at the Great American Novel: An engrossing, intimate, decades-long portrait of a family navigating life and its tragic ...more | |
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| Starts as a competent-enough depiction of grief but quickly turns into a lazy, poorly-paced narrative that's somehow (extremely) repetitive and difficult to follow. Hard to tell if this is an overbaked short story or an undercooked novel, but with pr ...more | |
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| "Vince got louder as he drank another round, and then another. I didn't know what he was saying. I listened while peering mainly at his eyebrows. Every now and then I answered. It was the kind of barroom conversation in which two people talk at cross ...more | |
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| I really went back and forth with myself over whether I was gonna give this one or two stars. Then I got to the second half of the book. This is a tough one. Afterglow does, after all, contain literary merit. It is by turns heartfelt and impenetrable ...more | |
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| One of those collections that reminds you what a short story can be: biting, funny, nostalgic. Costa has a particular talent for flash, an ability to pull you in with only a page or two of real estate to work with. Anytime a book gives me the itch to ...more | |
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| At times, incredibly moving, and at others, equally flat. An undeniably important book, nonetheless. Westmoreland's odyssey across America is a time capsule and, at its best, a gripping portrait of identity. ...more | |
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