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Matt’s Weekly Reads, February 18, 2023
Spotlight: How High We Go in the Dark || Weekly Roundup: When You Reach Me, The Call of the Wild, Punch Me Up to the Gods, When We Were Very Young, Because of Winn-Dixie, Big Kids, Bear
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From the Backlist: Girl, Woman, Other
Girl, Woman, Other, Bernardine Evaristo (2019) In Bernardine Evaristo’s Booker Prize winning Girl, Woman, Other, we are introduced to twelve different, loosely connected, British Black women living twelve very different lives: A radical feminist playwright finds herself disappointed by her daughter’s less zealous attitude towards gender; a rural English woman is shocked to discover she…
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Matt’s Weekly Reads, February 11, 2023
Spotlight: Fraternity || Weekly Roundup: The Locked Room, Strange Case of Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde, The Lost Stories, On the Road, Decolonizing Design, Winnie-the-Pooh, Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing, Mooncop, A Dangerous Business
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Matt’s Weekly Reads, February 4, 2023
Spotlight: Babel || Weekly Roundup: Oryx & Crake; Ghosts; Ziggy, Stardust & Me; The Giver; Harriet the Spy; Love and Other Words; The Magic Fish
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Some Lesser-Known (but still great) Reads for Black History Month
February is Black History Month. And while there are so many classics written by Black authors (Hello, Beloved, The Color Purple, Purple Hibiscus, and so many more!), I thought I’d share some titles that I love that aren’t quite as well-known, from both Africa and the Black Diaspora, Don’t Cry for Me, Daniel Black (2022):…
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Reads for the Head and Heart, December 2022 and January 2023
Spotlight: Praying with Jane Eyre || Roundup: Revelations of Divine Love; Thomas Berry, Selected Writings; Another Way; Reflections during Advent; Come, Thief; Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe; When God’s Ways Make No Sense
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Matt’s Weekly Reads, January 28, 2023
Spotlight: The New Life || Weekly Roundup: Thank You for Listening; Foster; Mrs. Dalloway; Luisa, Now and Then; Small Town, Big Magic; Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH;The Wonderful Wizard of Oz; City of Glass
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Matt’s Weekly Reads, January 21, 2023
Spotlight: Begin Again || Weekly Recap: Spells for Forgetting, The Swimmers, The Enigma of Room 622, Waves, Eight Nights of Flirting, The Westing Game, Forbidden City
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From the Backlist: Rules of Civility
Rules of Civility, Amor Towles (2011) We’re just nicely settling into the new year now, and I got to thinking about ‘January books’. I realized that I can’t think of many books I associate with the start of the year, with one exception, and it’s a big one: Amor Towles’s wonderful 2011 debut, Rules of…
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Matt’s Weekly Reads: January 14, 2023
Spotlight: Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow || Weekly Roundup: Now Is Not the Time to Panic, Yinka, Where is Your Huzband,;The Undertaking of Heart and Mercy; Fresh Water for Flowers; When Stars Are Scattered; Kaikeyi; Charlotte’s Web; Ramona the Pest
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