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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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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, October 22, 2022
Spotlight: Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy || Weekly Roundup: The Stone Child, Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead, A Gentleman’s Position, Raven Brings the Light, Dancing on our Turtle’s Back, Idol, The Bullet that Missed
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Matt’s Weekly Reads, September 10, 2022
Spotlight: My Government Means to Kill Me || Readings in honour of Canada’s National Day of Truth & Reconciliation : Red Paint, The Cultural Toolbox: Traditional Ojibwe Living in the Modern World, Resurgence and Reconciliation, Claiming Anishinaabe || Weekly Roundup: Much Ado about You, Euphoria, Shine Bright, The Lost Duke of Wyndham, The Earth Moved,…
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Matt’s Weekly Reads, August 13, 2022
Spotlight This Time Tomorrow, Emma Straub (2022) On the cusp of turning forty, Alice’s life is good enough but filled with regrets about following the path of least resistance in life — not getting her dad to quit smoking, not telling her highschool crush how she felt, and staying at the entry-level job she got…
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Matt’s Weekly Reads, July 9, 2022
Spotlight: A Lot Like Adiós || Weekend Roundup: Where the Drowned Girls Go, Hotel Iris, When Brooklyn was Queer, The Soulmate Equation, Count Your Lucky Stars, Hollywood Heroine, Lessons in Chemistry
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Matt’s Weekly Reads, July 2, 2022
Spotlight: Mary Jane || Weekly Roundup: You Have a Match, When You Get the Chance, Remarkably Bright Creatures, Disoriental, Junonia, Part of Your World, My Year of Meats
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