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Matt’s Weekly Reads, January 28, 2023
Spotlight: The New Life || Weekly Roundup: Thank You for Listening; Foster; Mrs. Dalloway; Luisa, Now and Then; Small Town, Big Magic; Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH;The Wonderful Wizard of Oz; City of Glass
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Matt’s Weekly Reads, January 21, 2023
Spotlight: Begin Again || Weekly Recap: Spells for Forgetting, The Swimmers, The Enigma of Room 622, Waves, Eight Nights of Flirting, The Westing Game, Forbidden City
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From the Backlist: Rules of Civility
Rules of Civility, Amor Towles (2011) We’re just nicely settling into the new year now, and I got to thinking about ‘January books’. I realized that I can’t think of many books I associate with the start of the year, with one exception, and it’s a big one: Amor Towles’s wonderful 2011 debut, Rules of…
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Matt’s Weekly Reads: January 14, 2023
Spotlight: Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow || Weekly Roundup: Now Is Not the Time to Panic, Yinka, Where is Your Huzband,;The Undertaking of Heart and Mercy; Fresh Water for Flowers; When Stars Are Scattered; Kaikeyi; Charlotte’s Web; Ramona the Pest
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Bookish Thoughts: Can My Anti-Wheelhouse Be My Wheelhouse?
It was the physicist Niels Bohr who famously wrote: “The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.” It’s an insight that has become a core belief of mine. (If you’re at all interested in this, you can check out my theology blog.) I was thinking…
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Matt’s Weekly Reads, January 7, 2023
# Matt’s Weekly Reads, January 7, 2023 (10) Spotlight: Everything Sad is Untrue || Weekly Roundup: Surrender, Young Mungo, Even Though I Knew the End, Down and Out in Paris and London, Anne of West Philly, Simply Clean, Are You Listening?, Foxhunt
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Top 10 Reads of 2022
I’ve read a lot of truly wonderful books this year, and in an effort to spread the love to as many of them as possible, I’ve greatly expanded my ‘best of’ efforts this year: Top Reads, January – June 2022 Top Reads, July – December 2022 Bookish Superlatives, Part I Bookish Superlatives, Part II But…
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Matt’s Weekly Reads, December 31, 2022
# Matt’s Weekly Reads, December 31, 2022 Spotlight: When We Lost Our Heads || Weekly Roundup: Small Angels, The Glass Hotel, Cryptid Club, The Wind in the Willows, We Met in December, Carols and Chaos, Hot Comb, 25 Days ‘Til Christmas, Wisdom Distilled from Daily Life
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Bookish Superlatives, 2022 – Part II: Genres and Communities
See yesterday’s post for Part I of my 2022 Bookish Superlatives, focusing on readerly expectations, media, and style. And now for Part II. Genres Best Romance Good Boy, Sarina Bowen and Elle Kennedy (2017) My favorite romance of 2022 came down between this one and Emily Henry’s Book Lovers — and let’s be honest, Henry…
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Bookish Superlatives, 2022 – Part I: Readerly Expectations and Style
2022 was another great year in my reading life and not even doubling my ‘best of’ posts to reflect my favorite reads of the first and second halves of the year seemed ‘enough’ to truly honour all the wonderful books I’ve read this year. So, I thought I’d take a page from high school yearbooks…
Matt's Books and Music
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