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Half-Blood BluesBooks

by Jodi on 24.Dec.12 with 0 comments

After two, or maybe three false starts, I finally made it through Esi Edugyan’s Half-Blood Blues. Usually, I wouldn’t be so dogged in reading a book that didn’t seem to be working for me, but the combination of vinyl record on the cover & LeAnn’s review gave me the extra persistance I needed. I’m glad …

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The MiddlesteinsBooks

by Jodi on 11.Dec.12 with 0 comments

On its surface The Middlesteins by Jami Attenberg is the kind of the book I dismiss out of hand. Jewish suburban ennui? Been there. A fat character wrecking her family? Done that. Unhappy marriages and bratty teens. Got the t-shirt. Beautiful writing with a light plot? Don’t even get me started. And yet to dimiss …

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My Favorite Novel of 2012 (unless something changes in the next five weeks)

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My Favorite Novel of 2012 (unless something changes in the next five weeks)Books

by Jodi on 26.Nov.12 with 2 comments

We’re in the waning months of 2012 and I think I’ve read what will be my favorite novel of 2012. It’s Carol Rifka Brunt’s fantastic, heartbreaking, and all together wonderful Tell the Wolves I’m Home. Unlike 2011 which was a rotten year for fiction, this is a high honor because the year is chock full …

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Tiny Beautiful ThingsBooks

by Jodi on 14.Nov.12 with 0 comments

One of the best things about reading Cheryl Strayed’s Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar was the memories it brought back. You know how you sometimes have memories that come screeching out of the ether? Those memories of a long ago time that you had so completely forgotten that the …

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Quiet but Mighty

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Quiet but MightyBooks

by Jodi on 22.Oct.12 with 0 comments

One of my favorite things about being a reader is having a physical reaction to a book. Whether it’s tears or goosebumps or laughter, or in the case of Joshua Henkin’s The World Without You an audible gasp, reacting that strongly to written words is the best thing ever. It’s even more delightful, because I …

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