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Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
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Bad Feminist
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Difficult Women
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Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture
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An Untamed State
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Ayiti
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Graceful Burdens
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Opinions: A Decade of Arguments, Criticism, and Minding Other People's Business
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Black Panther: World of Wakanda
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The Best American Short Stories 2018
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I admire the ambition of CJ Farley’s debut novel. I appreciated the narrator’s wryness. She had some really funny lines and wickedly smart observations. The story is both contained and sprawling. In many ways it feels like two novels in one. The dens ...more | |
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I loved this soapy, well-written, taut novel about a passionate pair of ice dancers across a several years of their personal and professional lives. Katarina Shaw is a talented ice dancer who partners with Heath Rocha, a young man with a difficult pa ...more | |
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It is lovely to see Larissa Pham blessing us with a novel. Like her nonfiction, the prose in Discipline is both lush and precise. There is a satisfying interiority to this novel and a fascinating structure as Christine goes on a book tour for her deb ...more | |
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S.A. Cosby never disappoints. When I tell you I was SAT! This book is fast-paced, gripping, relentless, and ruthless. I love the family saga energy and seeing Roman get more and more comfortable with going to any lengths to protect his family. There ...more | |
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Elaine Castillo is always a pleasure to read and her dense, deeply satisfying prose is so easy to lose yourself in. I love how Moderation, Castillo's sophomore novel, tells a compelling story, and plays with genre. It is the story of what it means to ...more | |
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These are incredibly sharp poems by a poet with a real skill with using form to excellent ends. The depth of care, research, and precision that has been poured into the work is admirable. There is a haunting undercurrent throughout the collection abo ...more | |
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It is lovely to see Larissa Pham blessing us with a novel. Like her nonfiction, the prose in Discipline is both lush and precise. There is a satisfying interiority to this novel and a fascinating structure as Christine goes on a book tour for her deb ...more | |
“I embrace the label of bad feminist because I am human. I am messy. I’m not trying to be an example. I am not trying to be perfect. I am not trying to say I have all the answers. I am not trying to say I’m right. I am just trying—trying to support what I believe in, trying to do some good in this world, trying to make some noise with my writing while also being myself.”
― Bad Feminist
― Bad Feminist
“I believe feminism is grounded in supporting the choices of women even if we wouldn’t make certain choices for ourselves.”
― Bad Feminist: Essays
― Bad Feminist: Essays
“It’s hard to be told to lighten up because if you lighten up any more, you’re going to float the fuck away.”
― Bad Feminist: Essays
― Bad Feminist: Essays
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A Sudden Light
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Everything I Never Told You
Celeste NgLydia is dead. But they don’t know this yet . . . So begins this debut novel about a mixed-race family living in 1970s Ohio and the tragedy that will either be their undoing or their salvation.

Leaving Time
Jodi PicoultFor more than a decade, Jenna Metcalf has never stopped thinking about her mother, Alice, who mysteriously disappeared in the wake of a tragic accident. Refusing to believe that she would be abandoned as a young child, Jenna searches for her mother regularly online and pores over the pages of Alice’s old journals. A scientist who studied grief among elephants, Alice wrote mostly of her research among the animals she loved, yet Jenna hopes the entries will provide a clue to her mother’s whereabouts.

Station Eleven
Emily St. John MandelAn audacious, darkly glittering novel set in the eerie days of civilization's collapse, Station Eleven tells the spellbinding story of a Hollywood star, his would-be savior, and a nomadic group of actors roaming the scattered outposts of the Great Lakes region, risking everything for art and humanity.

Mermaids in Paradise
Lydia MilletMermaids in Paradise is Lydia Millet’s funniest book yet, tempering the sharp satire of her early career with the empathy and subtlety of her more recent novels and short stories. This is an unforgettable, mesmerizing tale, darkly comic on the surface and illuminating in its depths.

The Book of Strange New Things
[author:Michel Faber|16272It begins with Peter, a devoted man of faith, as he is called to the mission of a lifetime, one that takes him galaxies away from his wife, Bea. Peter becomes immersed in the mysteries of an astonishing new environment, overseen by an enigmatic corporation known only as USIC. His work introduces him to a seemingly friendly native population struggling with a dangerous illness and hungry for Peter’s teachings—his Bible is their “book of strange new things.” But Peter is rattled when Bea’s letters from home become increasingly desperate: typhoons and earthquakes are devastating whole countries, and governments are crumbling. Bea’s faith, once the guiding light of their lives, begins to falter.

Us
David NichollsDouglas Petersen understands his wife's need to 'rediscover herself' now that their son is leaving home.
He just thought they'd be doing their rediscovering together.
So when Connie announces that she will be leaving, too, he resolves to make their last family holiday into the trip of a lifetime: one that will draw the three of them closer, and win the respect of his son. One that will make Connie fall in love with him all over again.

He just thought they'd be doing their rediscovering together.
So when Connie announces that she will be leaving, too, he resolves to make their last family holiday into the trip of a lifetime: one that will draw the three of them closer, and win the respect of his son. One that will make Connie fall in love with him all over again.
An Untamed State
Roxane GayAn Untamed State is a novel of privilege in the face of crushing poverty, and of the lawless anger that corrupt governments produce. It is the story of a willful woman attempting to find her way back to the person she once was, and of how redemption is found in the most unexpected of places. An Untamed State establishes Roxane Gay as a writer of prodigious, arresting talent.

Before, During, After
Richard Bausch
In prose that is direct, exact, and lyrical, Richard Bausch plumbs the complexities of public and personal trauma, and the courage with which we learn to face them. Above all, Before, During, After is a love story, offering a penetrating and exquisite portrait of intimacy, of spiritual and physical longing, and of the secrets we convince ourselves to keep even as they threaten to destroy us. An unforgettable tour de force from one of America’s most distinguished storytellers.

In prose that is direct, exact, and lyrical, Richard Bausch plumbs the complexities of public and personal trauma, and the courage with which we learn to face them. Above all, Before, During, After is a love story, offering a penetrating and exquisite portrait of intimacy, of spiritual and physical longing, and of the secrets we convince ourselves to keep even as they threaten to destroy us. An unforgettable tour de force from one of America’s most distinguished storytellers.
Stone Mattress: Nine Tales
Margaret AtwoodMargaret Atwood turns to short fiction for the first time since her 2006 collection, Moral Disorder, with nine tales of acute psychological insight and turbulent relationships bringing to mind her award-winning 1996 novel, Alias Grace.

Revival
Stephen KingA dark and electrifying novel about addiction, fanaticism, and what might exist on the other side of life.This rich and disturbing novel spans five decades on its way to the most terrifying conclusion Stephen King has ever written. It's a masterpiece from King, in the great American tradition of Frank Norris, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Edgar Allan Poe.

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“There is no reason for you to try to become like white people and there is no basis whatever for their impertinent assumption that they must accept you. The terrible thing, old buddy, is that you must accept them. And I mean that very seriously. You must accept them and accept them with love. For these innocent people have no other hope. They are, in effect, still trapped in a history which they do not understand; and until they understand it, they cannot be released from it. They have had to believe for many years, and for innumerable reasons, that black men are inferior to white men. Many of them, indeed, know better, but, as you will discover, people find it very difficult to act on what they know.”
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― The Fire Next Time

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Evelyn wrote: "I just wanted to let you know how much I am enjoying An Untamed State. I am reading it for my book club so I'm torn between wanting to read it very slowly and carefully, taking time to digest all t..."


An Untamed State sound like a powerful read and I have added it to my Want list.
Thank you for befriending me.
RBA
