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Emily’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Emily’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Emily Monaco
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| This beautiful little book is *extremely* intelligent – and in this case, engaging with it made me feel a little bit dumber. Not that I’m mad about it. It kind of felt like hanging out with a friend you know is smarter than you and therefore hope wil ...more | |
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| This story of two women who fall in love in post-WWII Holland had a lot going for it, but I found my attention and interest wavering at various parts... perhaps because the daring narrative refuses to be easily categorized. At some points, this book ...more | |
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| I encountered this lipogrammic novel thanks to one of the participants of the Nantes Writers’ Workshop, who volunteered it as an example of a work taking a particularly creative approach to the constraint of writing without a certain letter – and nea ...more | |
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| I haven't read a book I've enjoyed this much in a very long time. This story of a young woman who moves to the U.S. from the West Indies has one of the most unique narrative voices I've encountered in a long time: incisive, endearing, angry, introspe ...more | |
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| This book started incredibly strong, with a captivating workaholic doctor protagonist at odds with her older brother as they both seek their interpretation of their immigrant parents’ American dream. But the stakes waver as the backdrop of the pandem ...more | |
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| This hilarious memoir gave me everything I love about Peter Mayle's love of Provence but set in Corfu and through the eyes of an intrepid child enamored with animals. The wild adventures of this family are so unbelievable as to be impossible to cast ...more | |
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| This slim novel told from two alternating points of view – a grandmother and her granddaughter – digs into a family feud and its horrifying repercussions, with a unique perspective that leaves the reader wondering who the true heroes of the story are ...more | |
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| I've long had a habit of reading a novel set in the place I'm visiting, and on a recent trip to Bucharest, I picked up this slim novella set in a German enclave in a country caught in the hopelessness of Ceausescu's dictatorship. The novel is ostensi ...more | |
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| This close, almost claustrophobic narrative of one woman’s reckoning with her daughter’s queerness offered exactly what I always hope to gain from reading: a new perspective. The book, which was translated from Korean, is an unapologetic invitation t ...more | |
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| There are certain books that seem particularly well-suited to being read at a certain age, and for me, Wuthering Heights is particularly geared towards the late teens and early 20s. The unapologetic way each of the main characters acts above all in s ...more | |
“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
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“I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?”
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“The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.”
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“All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.”
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“He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.”
― Les Misérables
― Les Misérables
