Tag: coming of age
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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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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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Matt’s Weekly Reads, August 20, 2022
Spotlight: Thunder through my Veins, Gregory Scofield (1999) || Weekly Roundup: The Maid; In a New York Minute; The Key to Inclusion; In; The Sorcerer of the North; The Candymakers; Switch
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From the Backlist: Astonishing the Gods
Astonishing the Gods, Ben Okri (1995) When I first read this book in 2004 at the recommendation of my mentor in grad school, I was immediately enchanted by the vivid and mysterious world Ben Okri created. At the time it seemed that Astonishing the Gods was destined to be a modern classic, but it seems…
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Matt’s Weekly Reads, August 6, 2022
Spotlight The Dove in the Belly, Jim Grimsley (2022) This is a story of two very different young men and their struggles with trying to understand their sexuality and masculinity in mid-1970s North Carolina. Ronny is thin, academic, and the kind of guy used to having homophobic slurs thrown at him on a regular basis;…
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Matt’s Weekly Reads, July 16, 2022
Spotlight: Still Stace || Weekly Roundup: Lullabies for Little Criminals, A Fashionable Indulgence, Ruins of Gorlan, Last Summer on State Street, The Siren Depths
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