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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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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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