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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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| I devoured this clever, dark, moving novel that assesses climate change in a unique and devastatingly human way. I particularly appreciated the way in which the author left many loose ends untied, but in a way that ultimately brought the book to a re ...more | |
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| This book boasts a unique form – that of the BD Reportage, a sort of illustrated long-form non-fiction tome in the style of a graphic novel. The main difference is that this story – that of the remembrement – is true. Beginning in the post-War period ...more | |
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| This novel set in a remote mountain community in West Virginia offers a unique look at the lives of several generations of people, each of whom is stuck in their own tragic way in this place that acts almost like a poison. The cast of characters incl ...more | |
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| I read this strange, beautiful book on the recommendation of a not-strange, beautiful friend who also happens to be one of my favorite living writers. It’s one of her childhood loves, a book she picked up when she was far too young and deeply enjoyed ...more | |
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| Pierre Boisard always impresses me with his research-driven yet highly readable books about French culinary history. This one, about the country's most emblematic cheese, deftly divides myth from the truth, tracing the history, rife with symbolism an ...more | |
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| I literally picked this book of essays up off the street in Paris – and was forced to abandon it in the Seville airport because I bought too many local ceramics. Ultimately, it was a mixed bag, as so many books of essays are. I was particularly intri ...more | |
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| This contemporary love story explores what happens after "happily ever after." Told in alternating points of view, the novel begins at what feels like the end of a rocky marriage that has been through its share of troubles, from fertility woes to sec ...more | |
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| Books with cool concepts often seem to founder in execution, and this almost-historical "novel" was no exception. I was drawn to it thanks to its connection to Les Misérables, on which I wrote my Master's thesis. Rolin's promise is to delve into the ...more | |
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| This experimental memoir’s form kept me at a distance for several dozens of pages, and yet I found myself unable to put it down definitively. This story of a woman locked down with her lover in rural Ireland during COVID wends it way through a natura ...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
