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| I always find Peter Mayle’s insights on Provence delightful, and this book is no different. Rather than one narrative, this one contains a series of independent essays, many of which will be somewhat familiar to readers of his A Year in Provence, whi ...more | |
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| I enjoyed my time spent with Layla, the eponymous girl cook, whose Cinderella-esque story from garde-manger drone to... well, I won't spoil it for you... is a fun play on the trope. The love interests were unfortunately poorly developed; I was far mo ...more | |
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| I never quite sunk into this book about a young, wayward woman looking for herself and finding, instead, a complex love story with a married man. I found Hera at once relatable and dislikable – my favorite kind of female protagonist – but I wanted mo ...more | |
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| I don't usually love being hyper critical of books... but this one felt like a big mess. The magic of the universe was intriguing but didn't even pop up until around page 80 and was never really explained. And there weren't enough clues leading up to ...more | |
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| As part of a summer reading challenge at my local library, I picked up this book that I absolutely loved as a child – the story of a family of five Jewish sisters growing up on Manhattan’s Lower East Side in the 1910s. I still remember reading it ind ...more | |
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| I read this Caldecott Medal winning picture book as part of a summer reading challenge (for adults!) at my local library, which called for reading a picture book. This one is a simple yet lovely story about the frustration of an older sibling when a ...more | |
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| I first discovered Hisham Matar by way of his memoir and was so captivated by his prose that I absolutely had to read his fiction. And I wasn’t disappointed. This story explores the life of a young boy growing up in Libya during the Ghaddafi regime, ...more | |
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| This voicey, gothic début wends together two narratives: a historical one set in 18th century France in the midst of the real-life havoc wrecked by a mysterious "beast" in the Gévaudan and a contemporary one following one woman's discovery of this le ...more | |
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| This adventure story was one of my favorite books as a child, alongside The Phantom Tollbooth, with which it shares many elements: a fantasy romp through a fantasy land well-conceived enough to hook even adult readers, this middle grade novel by Juli ...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