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Matt’s Weekly Reads, April 1, 2023
Spotlight: The Wars || Weekly Roundup: Leaven of Malice, Frindle, Honey and Spice, VenCo, The Royal Ranger, The Divine Comedy, Icebreaker
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Reads for the Head & Heart, February and March 2023
Spotlight: An Immense World || Two-Month Roundup: Digital Minimalism, Raccoon, Slow, How to Be an Artist, Minimal, Being Disciples, A Way Other than our Own, Knowing Jesus, Ego and Archetype
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Bookish Pairs: Babel and Cinnamon & Gunpowder
One of literature’s many roles is to call attention to issues about which mainstream society (no matter how that’s defined) may be blissfully and complacently unaware. Reading is, therefore, a great way of expanding our awareness and empathy about the world. (That’s probably why book banning sadly remains a beloved tactic of those who don’t…
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Matt’s Weekly Reads, March 25, 2023
Spotlight: The Gospel according to Lazarus (aka The Lost Gospel of Lazarus) || Weekly Roundup: Tempest-Tost, Cinnamon & Gunpowder, One’s Company, Tin Man, Do I Know You?, A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World, The Invention of Hugo Cabret
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My Bookish Hall of Fame: Introduction
My recent foray back into reading ‘classics’ has got me thinking a lot about what makes a book ‘good’. What are the criteria that make a book work for me as a reader, and how does that relate to a book’s overall quality and reputation? The more I thought about it, the more complicated it…
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Matt’s Weekly Reads, March 18, 2023
Spotlight: Galore || Weekly Roundup: The Manticore, World of Wonders, Funny You Should Ask, The Tempest, Earth’s the Right Place for Love, Gathering Blue, Lumberjanes
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Matt’s Weekly Reads, March 11, 2023
Spotlight: Fifth Business || Weekly Roundup: Dubliners, Late Nights on Air, Well Traveled, The Long Run, Chef’s Kiss, Autobiography of Red, Little House in the Big Woods
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Matt’s Weekly Reads, March 4, 2023
Spotlight Beartown (Beartown 1) Fredrik Backman (2016, trans. 2017) Beartown is a remote village in Sweden with a depressed economy and even more depressed spirit among its strong and hard, tight-lipped and stoic residents. The community can be forgiven, then, if it cares a little too much about its youth hockey team — which finally…
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Bookish Pairs: The Catcher in the Rye and The Fall
This year I’ve been making a concerted effort to read more classics. And the other week, I happened, quite unintentionally, to read J.D. Salinger’s much loved-and-loathed The Catcher in the Rye (1951) and Albert Camus’ existentialist classic The Fall (published in French in 1956 as La Chute, and published in English translation the following year)…
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