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Matt’s Weekly Reads, May 6, 2023
Spotlight: Before I Let Go || Weekly Roundup: The Travelling Cat Chronicles, Bloodchild and Other Stories, The Rebel Angels, The Cat Who Saved Books, The Alcatraz Escape, Pure Colour, 2 AM at the Cat’s Pajamas
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Bookish Hall of Fame, Fourth Floor (Nos. 13-28)
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 Today I’ll unveil the fourth — next…
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Reads for the Head and Heart, April 2023
Spotlight: Entangled Life || Weekly Roundup: The Big Reveal, How Far the Light Reaches, How the Bible Actually Works, Jewish Meditation, Becoming Duchess Goldblatt, The Lives We Actually Have, The Breakup Monologues
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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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Bookish Hall of Fame, Third Floor (Nos. 29-48)
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 Today I’ll unveil the third tier of the pyramid, covering numbers…
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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
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Bookish Hall of Fame, Second Floor (Nos. 49-72)
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 Today I’ll unveil the second tier of the pyramid, covering numbers 49-72. I will list…
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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
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My Bookish Hall of Fame, Ground Floor (Nos. 73-100)
After some preliminary discussions and an overview posted over the past few weeks, today I start to reveal my ‘Bookish Hall of Fame’ Pyramid — my personal list of ‘the best’ works of fiction that I’ve read through the end of 2022. Today will be the ‘ground floor’, encompassing numbers 73-100. I will list them…
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Matt’s Weekly Reads, April 8, 2023
Spotlight: The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi || Weekly Roundup: Thirst, Maame, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Flappers and Philosophers, Ethel and Ernest, The BFG, Frankenstein
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