1. An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination by Elizabeth McCracken:This was the best book I read all year. No hemming, no hawing, no second guessing — the best. McCracken’s memoir about giving birth to a stillborn child and all that follows is heartbreaking, darkly funny, and something everyone on the planet should [...]
Posts Tagged: Elizabeth McCracken
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Nov 08
The Gargoyle makes me sound like a stoner
Andrew Davidson’s debut novel The Gargoyle, is the kind of book that gives me nextbookaphobia.
This is a condition marked by great fear of starting a new book because there is no way that it can possibly live up to the last book you read, because that last book was really fucking good. I’ve experienced this [...]
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Nov 08
The best book I’ve read all year
I’ve been trying to write about Elizabeth McCracken’s memoir An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination for three weeks. I’ve read it twice and I’m still having a hard time finding the words. I do want to make this statement: This is unequivocally the best book I’ve read so far this year. This [...]
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Oct 08
Apt
“If you’d asked me five years ago — let’s say five years and seven weeks — where I saw myself, five years and seven weeks into the future, I would not have mentioned a husband, children, living in six different countries. I was thirty-five and had never had a really serious romance. This mostly didn’t [...]
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Jul 05
a sly declaration of new classic status slipped into a list of old safe ones
late last week, Kelly laid down a challenge: “What do you consider to be the most ass kicking top, say, 11 books written, and here’s the challenge, in the last 20 years?”
this was not an easy task. not easy at all. i had to cull through all my books, look at copyright dates, try to [...]
