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Kris’s 2025 Year in Books
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| Nancy Lemann's New Orleans novels are always top of my read list, from Lives of the Saints to The Fiery Pantheon. Her latest revives her signature comic repetitions, classical allusions, fey protagonist, and ironic doom-saying. Easy to relish, as alw ...more | |
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| Engaging tension between the director Pabst's restless imagination and the real political horrors of Nazi Germany. Kehlmann deftly renders cinematic vision and technique. A moving and memorable novel. ...more | |
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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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What shall we read in July, 2022? Books published after 1990.
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| The Reading Chall...: Brenda's 2019 Reading Corner | 27 | 28 | Dec 14, 2019 09:17PM | |
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| 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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