Category: Weekly Reads

• Matt’s Weekly Reads, April 29, 2023

  

  Spotlight: The World and All that it Holds || Weekly Roundup: Ander and Santi Were Here, Nora Goes Off Script, Ghost Forest, If Cats Disappeared from the World, Sing Anyway, Are You There God? It’s Me Margaret, Island of the Blue Dolphins

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  April 29, 2023

  Weekly Reads

  20th Century History, Ander and Santi Were Here, Are You There God? It’s Me Margaret, Austro-Hungarian Empire, Found Family, Ghost Forest, If Cats Disappeared from the World, Island of the Blue Dolphins, Judaism, lgbtq2s+, Nora Goes Off Script, refugees, Sing Anyway, The World and All that it Holds

• Matt’s Weekly Reads, April 22, 2023

  

  Spotlight: Something Wild and Wonderful || Weekly Roundup: In the Lives of Puppets, Eastbound, Tatouine, Signal Fires, Sir Callie and the Champions of Helston, Greenglass House, Winter in Sokcho, The Tale of Despereaux

  stufffromthestuff

  April 22, 2023

  Weekly Reads

  Complicated Families, Eastbound, Friendship, Greenglass House, Hiking, In the Lives of Puppets, lgbtq2s+, religious trauma, romance, Self-Acceptance, Signal Fires, Sir Callie and the Champions of Helston, Something Wild and Wonderful, Tatouine, The Tale of Despereaux, Winter in Sokcho

• Matt’s Weekly Reads, April 15, 2023

  

  Spotlight: When You Call My Name || Weekly Roundup: High Fidelity, A Mixture of Frailties, We Spread, Fence, Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang, Shad Hadid and the Alchemists of Alexandria, Ruby Spencer’s Whisky Year

  stufffromthestuff

  April 15, 2023

  Weekly Reads

  1990s, A Mixture of Frailties, coming of age, Fence, High Fidelity, HIV/AIDS, Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang, lgbtq2s+, New York City, Ruby Spencer’s Whisky Year, Shad Hadid and the Alchemists of Alexandria, We Spread, When You Call My Name

• Matt’s Weekly Reads, March 25, 2023

  

  Spotlight: The Gospel according to Lazarus (aka The Lost Gospel of Lazarus) || Weekly Roundup: Tempest-Tost, Cinnamon & Gunpowder, One’s Company, Tin Man, Do I Know You?, A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World, The Invention of Hugo Cabret

  stufffromthestuff

  March 25, 2023

  Weekly Reads

  A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World, Cinnamon & Gunpowder, Do I Know You?, First-century Judaism, Jesus, Mysticism, One’s Company, Roman Empire, Tempest-Tost, The Gospel according to Lazarus, The Invention of Hugo Cabret, The Lost Gospel of Lazarus, Tin Man

• Matt’s Weekly Reads, March 18, 2023

  

  Spotlight: Galore || Weekly Roundup: The Manticore, World of Wonders, Funny You Should Ask, The Tempest, Earth’s the Right Place for Love, Gathering Blue, Lumberjanes

  stufffromthestuff

  March 18, 2023

  Weekly Reads

  Atlantic Fishing Trade, Complicated Families, Galore, Multi-generational epics, Newfoundland, small towns

• Matt’s Weekly Reads, March 11, 2023

  

  Spotlight: Fifth Business || Weekly Roundup: Dubliners, Late Nights on Air, Well Traveled, The Long Run, Chef’s Kiss, Autobiography of Red, Little House in the Big Woods

  stufffromthestuff

  March 11, 2023

  Weekly Reads

  Autobiography of Red, Canadian Literature, Chef’s Kiss, Depth Psychology, Dubliners, Fifth Business, Hagiography, Late Nights on Air, Little House in the Big Woods, Magic and Illusion, The Long Run, Twentieth Century History, Well Traveled

• Matt’s Weekly Reads, March 4, 2023

  

  Spotlight Beartown (Beartown 1) Fredrik Backman (2016, trans. 2017) Beartown is a remote village in Sweden with a depressed economy and even more depressed spirit among its strong and hard, tight-lipped and stoic residents. The community can be forgiven, then, if it cares a little too much about its youth hockey team — which finally…

  stufffromthestuff

  March 4, 2023

  Weekly Reads

  Athletics and Sports, Beartown, Belonging, Hockey, Hollow, Holly Jolly Diwali, Loyalty, small towns, Something Wilder, Sweden, The Penderwicks, The Pursuit of Love, The Thirty-Nine Steps, Tuck Everlasting

• Matt’s Weekly Reads, February 25, 2023

  

  Spotlight: The Woman Next Door || Weekly Roundup: All the Way Happy, Zorrie, The Catcher in the Rye, The Fall, You & I Rewritten, Better than Fiction, Hatchet

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  February 25, 2023

  Weekly Reads

  Aging, All the Way Happy, Better than Fiction, Curmudgeons, Hatchet, Mature Protagonists, Race Relations, Social Change, South Africa, The Catcher in the Rye, The Fall, The Woman Next Door, You & I Rewritten, Zorrie

• Matt’s Weekly Reads, February 18, 2023

  

  Spotlight: How High We Go in the Dark || Weekly Roundup: When You Reach Me, The Call of the Wild, Punch Me Up to the Gods, When We Were Very Young, Because of Winn-Dixie, Big Kids, Bear

  stufffromthestuff

  February 18, 2023

  Weekly Reads

  Bear, Because of Winn-Dixie, Big Kids, climate change, Dystopias, Family, grief and loss, How High We Go in the Dark, pandemic literature, Punch Me Up to the Gods, science fiction, The Call of the Wild, When We Were Very Young, When You Reach Me

• Matt’s Weekly Reads, February 11, 2023

  

  Spotlight: Fraternity || Weekly Roundup: The Locked Room, Strange Case of Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde, The Lost Stories, On the Road, Decolonizing Design, Winnie-the-Pooh, Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing, Mooncop, A Dangerous Business

  stufffromthestuff

  February 11, 2023

  Weekly Reads

  1990s, A Dangerous Business, Bisexual Representation, Dark Academia, Decolonizing Design, Fraternity, Identity, lgbtq2s+, Magic, Mooncop, On the Road, Paranormal, Secret Societies, Strange Case of Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde, Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing, The Locked Room, The Lost Stories, Winnie-the-Pooh