Book 55: Tropic of Cancer – Henry Miller
“Sex everywhere: it was slopping over, a neap tide that swept the props from under the city.” (204) This quote […]
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Book 52: The Boy Detective Fails – Joe Meno
This is the story of Billy Argos, the boy detective. The way the book is put together is fascinating and
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Book 50: Bastard Out of Carolina – Dorothy Allison
Bastard Out of Carolina is the story of Ruth Anne “Bone” Cartwright. It’s a story about survival and about perseverance.
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Book 47: The Help – Kathryn Stockett
After hearing Emma Donoghue recommend this book, I of course immediately added it to my list of books to read.
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Book 46: Hero – Perry Moore
Let’s just say that any book that assumes superpowers are commonplace in society is already off to a good start.
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Book 43: A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
What a peculiar novel. I had to slog through this book and at various times was convinced it was repeating
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Book 42: Gilead – Marilynne Robinson
I purchased this book with the 13 or 14 others at the Boston Book Festival last year in a bag
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Book 40: Boston Noir – Dennis Lehane (ed.)
I assumed this was a random small collection of short stories as I picked it up for very cheap at
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Book 39: Outward Bound USA: Crew Not Passengers – Josh Miner and Joe Boldt
“I was suddenly aware of how ignorant I was, alive with curiosity, doing academic work at a level I would
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