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Kris’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Kris’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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| Haunting tale of a lonely Hungarian man's serial attachments and turns of fate. Alienation is the through-line, but the protagonist, Istvan, discovers in the end deep attachments in loss. Finely plotted and subtly realized in spare but vivid prose. ...more | |
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| Two battle-scarred Irish criminal frenemies await the arrival, from Tangier, of a young woman tied to both their pasts in a searing family saga fueled by comic banter. Brilliant dialogue in the vein of Roddy Doyle. | |
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| Compelling memoir about raising a hare in the English countryside. Hour-by-hour account over years--poignant though not sentimental. Moving, direct, vivid. | |
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| Brilliant, subtle family drama. Tokyo with Houston backstory. Keen, turbulent dialogue. | |
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| Solid historical/contemporary parallel narrative. Easy transitions between them. Fine character development, fascinating art history and racial conflict through-lines. | |
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| I admire all her books. Relish revisiting some of her fine characters in this one. Poignant, unsentimental family histories and vivid local setting. | |
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| Inventive historical adventure. Witty, allusive, propulsive. | |
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| A stylistically-challenging narrative about a man who was sent from eastern Europe to Wales as a young child by his parents, who wanted to protect him from Hitler. The story follows his efforts to trace his lost parents' last movements before they di ...more | |
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| In her brilliant debut, Allison Alsup crafts a flawless and propulsive novel about a green American vice-consul in 1918 China who is sent to find a missing Dutch explorer. Samuel Sokobin is tormented by memories of his fighter-pilot brother, lost ove ...more | |
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What shall we read in July, 2022? Books published after 1990.
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Topics Mentioning This Author
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Cozy Mysteries :
Mystery ABC's, Round 4
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| The Reading Chall...: Brenda's 2019 Reading Corner | 27 | 28 | Dec 14, 2019 09:17PM | |
| The Reading Chall...: New to You in 2019 | 34 | 115 | Dec 29, 2019 07:50PM | |
| A Million More Pages: Venecia's Party | 108 | 63 | Jan 31, 2021 03:44PM | |
| Game Night: V's a Brain Burglar | 123 | 14 | Mar 23, 2021 09:28AM | |
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On the Southern L...:
Now accepting nominations for July 2022 Group Reads
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The Mystery, Crim...:
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2180 | 728 | Jan 01, 2023 02:41AM |
