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Matt’s Weekly Reads, August 27, 2022
Spotlight: The Kaiju Preservation Society | Weekly Roundup: A Walk in the Woods, The All of It, A Seditious Affair, The Purpose Path, The Dragon’s Bride, Rewild Yourself, The Layover, A Universe from Nothing, In Deeper Waters
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Matt’s Weekly Reads, August 20, 2022
Spotlight: Thunder through my Veins, Gregory Scofield (1999) || Weekly Roundup: The Maid; In a New York Minute; The Key to Inclusion; In; The Sorcerer of the North; The Candymakers; Switch
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From the Backlist: Astonishing the Gods
Astonishing the Gods, Ben Okri (1995) When I first read this book in 2004 at the recommendation of my mentor in grad school, I was immediately enchanted by the vivid and mysterious world Ben Okri created. At the time it seemed that Astonishing the Gods was destined to be a modern classic, but it seems…
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Matt’s Weekly Reads, August 13, 2022
Spotlight This Time Tomorrow, Emma Straub (2022) On the cusp of turning forty, Alice’s life is good enough but filled with regrets about following the path of least resistance in life — not getting her dad to quit smoking, not telling her highschool crush how she felt, and staying at the entry-level job she got…
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Matt’s Weekly Reads, August 6, 2022
Spotlight The Dove in the Belly, Jim Grimsley (2022) This is a story of two very different young men and their struggles with trying to understand their sexuality and masculinity in mid-1970s North Carolina. Ronny is thin, academic, and the kind of guy used to having homophobic slurs thrown at him on a regular basis;…
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Reads for the Head and Heart, July 2022
Spotlight: New Seeds of Contemplation || Monthly Roundup: Jewish Wisdom for Daily Life, Still Stace, Spirituality and the Awakening Self, You Can Heal Your Heart, Handbook for an Integrated Life, The Upside of Uncertainty
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Matt’s Weekly Reads, July 30, 2022
Spotlight: Husband Material || Weekly Roundup: The Upside of Uncertainty, Rosaline Palmer Takes the Cake, A Man Called Ove, Holding the Calm, The Dawnhounds, Recitatif
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Matt’s Weekly Reads, July 23, 2022
Spotlight: Take Me to Your Chief || Weekly Roundup: Handbook for an Integrated Life, Still Life, A Little Bit Country, I Am Ace, Chike and the River
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Matt’s Weekly Reads, July 16, 2022
Spotlight: Still Stace || Weekly Roundup: Lullabies for Little Criminals, A Fashionable Indulgence, Ruins of Gorlan, Last Summer on State Street, The Siren Depths
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Matt’s Weekly Reads, July 9, 2022
Spotlight: A Lot Like Adiós || Weekend Roundup: Where the Drowned Girls Go, Hotel Iris, When Brooklyn was Queer, The Soulmate Equation, Count Your Lucky Stars, Hollywood Heroine, Lessons in Chemistry
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