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Friday, August 1, 2025

Shelf Lives, Vol. 5: The Bone Clocks, by David Mitchell

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I'm writing this in a bookstore.  RoscoeBooks . The bookstore at which I've been a part-time bookseller since November of 2014 -- ne...
Monday, July 28, 2025

Pan, by Michael Clune: A Splatter Pattern of Images, Light, and Color

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I love it when a book unwittingly (or perhaps very wittingly) describes itself. Here's a sentence from Michael Clune's debut novel, ...
Thursday, July 24, 2025

The Quirk's The Thing: Five Books That Make You Go Hmm...(In a Good Way)

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I just finished reading Kate Folk's debut novel, Sky Daddy -- a really fun and funny read, which is successful because Folk is able to ...
Wednesday, July 16, 2025

Waterline, by Aram Mrjoian: All Happy Families Are Different

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Tolstoy famously wrote "Happy families are all alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." This is, of course, bullshit...
Thursday, July 10, 2025

The New Dork Review Best Books of 2025...So Far

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I thought it was strange that "best of the year so far" lists started appearing in mid-May this year. What's happening? Way to...
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