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Drew’s 2025 Year in Books
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| Of the two novels collected in this paperback composite, the first ("The Diary of a Good Neighbor") is definitely the stronger. Lessing's tale of a fashion magazine editor who finds her world rocked by a random encounter -- then friendship -- with an ...more | |
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| How wonderful to spend a week reading Strindberg again after all these years. This particular collection is a nice mix of plays I've read multiple times before ("Easter," "The Stronger," "The Father," "Miss Julie") and ones I've never read at all ("T ...more | |
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| Some books don't age so well. The success of this breakthrough novel by Truman Capote can best be attributed to its dance with the taboo: a young trans kid knocks the teeth out of sister's mouth; a woman with dwarfism slips her hands up the pants of ...more | |
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| C.S. Lewis' memoir looks back at life as an ongoing education. And so we read of his various instructors, his friends of the intellect, and the books/authors who shaped his maturing point of view. I thoroughly enjoyed his distaste for Rudolf Steiner, ...more | |
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| I didn't know that Margaret Atwood wrote so much science fiction. I thought "The Handmaid's Tale" was an outlier. Well, now I know better. Her dystopian vision here -- the first of a sci-fi trilogy! -- is a world in which pure science goes bonkers wi ...more | |
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| Is Edna St. Vincent Millay old-fashioned? Sure. What of it. Because her politics sure feel of the moment, what with two sonnets honoring Sacco and Vanzetti, the antihumanist musing within "The Return" and "Apostrophe to Man," and the subsequent epic ...more | |
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| My interest in The Sea of Fertility tetralogy nearly petered out after Book 3 but I'm glad I came back to finish the series, albeit ten years later, because this concluding volume is a stunner, a vigorous collision with the built-in destructiveness t ...more | |
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| My interest in The Sea of Fertility tetralogy nearly petered out after Book 3 but I'm glad I came back to finish the series, albeit ten years later, because this concluding volume is a stunner, a vigorous collision with the built-in destructiveness t ...more | |
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| Is Edna St. Vincent Millay old-fashioned? Sure. What of it. Because her politics sure feel of the moment, what with two sonnets honoring Sacco and Vanzetti, the antihumanist musing within "The Return" and "Apostrophe to Man," and the subsequent epic ...more | |