I have imbibed fairy tales ever since I was six years old. I used to sneak into the public library and scatter several books on the floor to read, even if I couldn’t read them. My mother used to read the Grimms and Andersen tales aloud to me every night until I could read them […] Continue reading at 'Literrary Hub'
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These hidden gems are all great works of imagination set near and far that you need to add to your TBR ASAP. Continue reading at Book Riot
[ Book Riot | 2022-06-15 10:36:00 UTC ]
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Bethanne Patrick's June highlights include Tom Perrotta's 'Election' sequel, essential new war histories and a fresh look at females of all species. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2022-05-31 14:00:49 UTC ]
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I grew up with two sets of amicably divorced grandparents. That meant I had three grandmothers—whip-smart, accomplished, fans of flowers and capital-c Culture—and four grandfathers: a Civil War-obsessed lawyer who loved opera and plaid; an intimidating, accomplished doctor with a collection of... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2022-05-26 08:50:43 UTC ]
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A staff writer at The Atlantic since 2016, Gilbert is a finalist for the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Criticism. Continue reading at The Atlantic
[ The Atlantic | 2022-05-10 13:16:13 UTC ]
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Bethanne Patrick's May highlights include new fiction by John Waters, Chris Bohjalian and Emma Straub, fresh David Sedaris, breakout poetry and more. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2022-05-02 13:00:40 UTC ]
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War never happens in a vacuum. These books show the historic contours of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2022-04-12 17:08:00 UTC ]
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Bethanne Patrick's April picks include highly anticipated novels from Jennifer Egan, Emily St. John Mandel, Don Winslow and Douglas Stuart. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2022-03-31 13:00:29 UTC ]
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A reading list hints at the richness and breadth of African American children’s writing before Brown v. Board of Education. Continue reading at The New York Times
[ The New York Times | 2022-03-19 09:00:07 UTC ]
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Fake identities serve as fascinatingly persistent plot devices because we all, at some point, desire to reinvent ourselves in pursuit of existential liberation or deception, curiosity or fantasy or survival. In one of the most canonical examples of this genre, Patricia Highsmith’s The Talented... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2022-03-15 08:49:43 UTC ]
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The novelist Kathryn Davis' memoir, 'Aurelia, Aurélia," is a Virginia Woolf-inspired whoosh of experiences in the aftermath of her husband's death. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2022-03-01 18:31:42 UTC ]
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Bethanne Patrick's March picks include works by Bob Odenkirk and Elena Ferrante, as well as an Indigenous punk memoir and magical African allegories. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2022-02-28 14:00:38 UTC ]
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Bethanne Patrick's February picks include two Nobel Prize winners, tales of Hollywood then and now, a new African fantasy epic and much more. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2022-01-28 14:00:38 UTC ]
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Stephen King has written “a magnificent and terrifying tale” about a teenage boy with keys to a parallel world. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2022-01-25 09:54:00 UTC ]
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Tasked with bringing more cohesion to the Asian and Island Pacific communities in diaspora, Gold House names the first six of its 2022 books. The post Gold House Issues a New Asian and Pacific Islander Reading List appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2022-01-07 15:01:59 UTC ]
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Bethanne Patricks' January picks cover train wrecks, political drama, enraging inequality, the complications of polyamory and the joy of the ampersand. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2022-01-07 14:33:51 UTC ]
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If you want to expand your picture book horizons past the classics, pick up one of these hidden gems of the format! Continue reading at Book Riot
[ Book Riot | 2021-12-29 11:34:00 UTC ]
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The author, who died Thursday, produced decades' worth of memorable work. Here's our guide to starting — or continuing — your Didion journey. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2021-12-23 21:24:38 UTC ]
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It was a chance to finally get around to Tolstoy or Proust, but the charts tell a different story. Which books did we actually turn to in the lockdowns? • Let us know in the comments what you were reading Back in spring 2020, when it became clear that coronavirus wasn’t going away, book lovers... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2021-12-11 09:00:06 UTC ]
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Coming in December: Unsparing memoirs about very messy relationships; globe-spanning new fiction from Nadifa Mohamed, Tom Bissell and others. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2021-11-29 14:00:14 UTC ]
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Lit Lists Artists of different styles often collaborate in the creation of their work. When words and images intersect, they can come together to produce something beneficial for both learning and inspiration. As children, many of us experience this in... Continue reading at World Literature Today
[ World Literature Today | 2021-11-12 14:36:21 UTC ]
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