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The Book Journal September 2022
We Had a Little Real Estate Problem: The Unheralded Story of Native Americans and Comedy by Kliph Nesteroff is the perfect combination of modern non-fiction, oral history, and cultural history. The structure of the narrative hops around amongst modern day interviews and historical background and biographies. This structure is both engaging and a good reminder…
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When the World Loses a Voice…
…it always feels personal to lose a writer you love. You lose the possibility of something new; you lose the possibility of seeing them in person, of handing them your book so they can sign it for you. Their words become a finite resource. Something you can turn to and examine time and again, but…
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The Likable Un-Likeables
Unlikable characters offer so many possibilities for both a writer and a reader I can’t wait to meet the next one on my bookshelf…
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The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey
Tey covers a ton of ground in a short text: how our memory of history is tied to later governmental action and political movement, how new information can always emerge to change how we consider the past, how we should always consider motive (not just in case of these particular murders but also in the…
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From Page to Screen
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a new Jane Austen adaptation will divide critics and fans alike.
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The Book Journal August 2022
With the end of Summer coming I took every opportunity to read outside and go for long walks with audiobooks and it lead to a great month of reading.
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A Different Type of Guide Book
So what did I find in London? Two volumes of a series produced by Michelin and dedicated “In memory of the Michelin employees and workmen who died gloriously for their country” (in this case in World War I) written while the war was still going on and are intended for those traveling just after its…
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HAG: Forgotten Folktales Retold
HAG knows the importance of the folk tale and embraces it. This project gave a collection of female writers an original British folktale and had them reimagine and modernize them. They also created a podcast for the collection to keep the oral tradition of the stories alive.
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The Book Journal July 2022
Luckenbooth by Jenni Fagan was a truly one-of-a-kind book. Fagan drags us through time and into the minds of an incredibly varied cast of characters, but we stay firmly in the same location – an apartment building in Edinburgh. This novel may have been sewn with the threads of magic and one powerful curse, but…
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What is your favorite book?
I was faced with a tricky question recently: What is your favorite book? Now, of course, there are a few scenarios where this question arises. It could be someone who doesn’t know what to do with you when you say your hobby is reading so they ask to be polite. It might be the reader…
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