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Matt’s Weekly Reads, June 24, 2023
Spotlight: The Endless Vessel || Weekly Roundup: Mrs Caliban, The Swifts, The Postcard, Farrell Covington and the Limits of Style, Rayne and Deliliah’s Midnite Matinee, One Italian Summer
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Matt’s Weekly Reads, June 17, 2023
Spotlight: Only This Beautiful Moment || Weekly Roundup: Brighton Rock, Flamer, B-Boy Blues, Thrown Off the Ice, Funeral Songs for Dying Girls, The Gay Best Friend, Mouth to Mouth
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Matt’s Weekly Reads, June 10, 2023
Spotlight: Moon Tiger || Weekly Roundup: The Celebrants, What’s Bred in the Bone, The Camino Club, Yours Truly, Barney’s Version, Throwing Hearts, Greek Lessons
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Celebrating Audiobook Month!
June is a month of many commemorations, but one that I haven’t seen get much attention so far this year is that June is Audiobook Month. I’m a bit of a latecomer to audiobooks, having only begun to incorporate them into my reading life over the past three years. Like many readers, I was initially…
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Matt’s Weekly Reads, June 3, 2023
Spotlight: A Little Life || Weekly Roundup: Fourth Wing, The Covenant of Water, Charming Billy, Happy Hour, The Grace of Wild Things, The Crossing Places, Best Men
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Matt’s Weekly Reads, May 27, 2023
Spotlight In Memoriam, Alice Winn (2023) At an elite boarding school in the early 1910s, two teenage boys with high hopes and big ideas of truth and beauty fall in love — not that they’d ever dare tell each other. But the First World War first separates them and then unites them in its unimaginable…
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Matt’s Weekly Reads, May 20, 2023
Spotlight: Himawari House || Weekly Roundup: The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon, Stoner, The Magician’s Assistant, A Cuban Girl’s Guide to Tea and Tomorrow, The Ugly Cry, The Turn of the Screw, The Original
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Final Thoughts on my Bookish Olympus
Before I dug into my top one hundred ‘best’ novels, I wrote a post examining some overall themes in the list, particularly around issues of representation, genre, and recency bias. Today, before leaving the project, I thought I’d take a bit of time to reflect on my top twelve, and what they say about me…
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Matt’s Weekly Reads, May 13, 2023
Spotlight: The Dispossessed || Weekly Roundup: Happy Place, All about Me!, Game Changer, Carmilla, This May End Badly, Peter Pan, Tiger Lily and the Secret Treasure of Neverland, The Story of the Amulet
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Bookish Hall of Fame, Olympus (Nos. 1-12)
This Spring I’m working through my ‘Bookish Hall of Fame’ pyramid — what are for me, the ‘best’ one hundred books I’ve read through the end of 2022: Introduction and Criteria Statistical Overview of the List Ground Floor, Nos. 73-100 Second Floor, Nos. 49-72 Third Floor, Nos. 29-48 Fourth Floor, Nos. 13-28 Today I’ll unveil…
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