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Claire’s 2025 Year in Books
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Claire Oshetsky
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Menominee, Michigan, USA
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Vladimir Sorokin, Kenzaburō Ōe, Flannery O’Connor, Shirley Jackson, Do
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Poor Deer
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2024
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10 editions
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Chouette
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2021
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17 editions
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Evil Genius
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published
2026
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5 editions
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I wanted to write a little something here about how The Five-Forty-Eight by John Cheever influenced the way I wrote Evil Genius. First, here is a link to the story: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/19... The rest is going behind a spoiler tag, as it’s ...more |
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You got it, Jill! That makes me so happy.
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| What an extraordinary read. I almost never read biographies but this one was so special. I admit it, I’m deeply jealous of the life this genius, lesbian, intellectual, shaped-like-a-bowlingball powerhouse of a writer led. I'm jealous of the people sh ...more | |
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added a status update: Ok here is another teaser question for intrepid lovers of unreliable narrators. Celia most certainly gets the name of the hotel wrong where she meets up with the notorious Sock Man. How do you know this? If you care to guess put it behind a spoiler tag…I’m not sure anyone will get this one though…
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| Lately I've been yearning to read the works of writers who exhibit sincerity, faith in progress, intellectual seriousness, and the absolute belief that intensely beautiful language can convey important truths that more vernacular registers can't reac ...more | |
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It's July 6 2025 and the first review copies of Evil Genius will be out in 10 days and the story will no longer belong to me. I'm spending a quiet time today, thinking about why I wrote this novel the way I did. You could say Evil Genius was written ...more |
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Terrie wrote: "Dang AI!!"
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It’s a little nerve-wracking for me, tbh
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Belinda wrote: "YES your writing style would work so well for horror. Love to hear it!"
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Thanks, Lesley, André, Jacqulyn. (Wow such great names.) And now I’m trying to figure out what to write next. For me, thinking up an idea, the ‘what i
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“I prefer to speak in metaphor: That way, no logic can trap me, and no rule can bind me, and no fact can limit me or decide for me what’s possible.”
― Chouette
― Chouette
“I begin to understand what a gift I've been given, to have been chosen for this task. The truth overwhelms me, and humbles me. The birds are telling me that my life's work, as your mother, will be to teach you how to be yourself- and to honor however much of the wild world you have in you, owl-baby- rather than mold you to be what I want you to be, or what your father wants you to be.”
― Chouette
― Chouette
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What book would you like to read for our March 2026 Group Read? The theme is Birds.
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