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The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead

This was a difficult book to read — for the content, not the writing — but it turns out to be a spectacularly beautiful story. #25wordbookreviews (Amzn) Continue reading The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead

vickySeptember 3, 2019Leave a comment
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Stay Sexy & Don’t Get Murdered by Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark

I wanted to understand why people are obsessed with true crime. The last chapter helped. It’s still not for me, but I kinda get it. #25wordbookreview (Amzn) Continue reading Stay Sexy & Don’t Get Murdered by Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark

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Ask Again, Yes by Mary Beth Keane

I love novels about the never-quite-complete (but still somehow beautiful) recovery from trauma. This one is hopeful without being trite, about many types of love. #25wordbookreview (Amzn) Continue reading Ask Again, Yes by Mary Beth Keane

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I Like to Watch by Emily Nussbaum

God, was this a great book. I didn’t realize how hungry I was to hear modern television discussed as the art form it really is. #25wordbookreviews (Amzn) Continue reading I Like to Watch by Emily Nussbaum

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City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert

The first novel I think I’ve ever read where a woman has an independent lifestyle and a healthy sexual appetite… and isn’t ruined by them. #25wordbookreview (Amzn) Continue reading City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert

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Very Nice by Marcy Dermansky

Not so terrible that I stopped reading, I guess. One of those novels where everyone is an asshole and you’re supposed to find it funny. #25wordbookreviews (Amazon) Continue reading Very Nice by Marcy Dermansky

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Three Women by Lisa Taddeo

I would love the book this was advertised to be — but it was actually about three women’s painful sexual experiences, delivered with soft-core porn detail. #25wordbookreviews (Amazon) Continue reading Three Women by Lisa Taddeo

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What’s a commonplace book?

A commonplace book is a collection of knowledge. It is a journal filled with everything from quotations, observations, and citations to formulas, facts, and figures–anything that’s worth remembering from anything one has read, heard, or seen. In a way it is a scrapbook, commemorating and keeping track of the things we have learned and the places we have been, figuratively or literally, via the media that passes through our lives: books, articles, poems, movies, songs, blogs, and so on. Commonplace books are kept by readers, writers, scholars, and students of schools and of life.

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  • elise
    • On the Come Up by Angie Thomas
    • The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker
    • Pep Talks for Writers by Grant Faulkner
    • The Long Goodbye: A Memoir by Meghan O’Rourke
    • RIP Mary Oliver
  • vicky
    • The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
    • Stay Sexy & Don’t Get Murdered by Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
    • Ask Again, Yes by Mary Beth Keane
    • I Like to Watch by Emily Nussbaum
    • City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert
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