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Book Review: Flannery: A Life of Flannery O’Connor
My niece’s middle name is Flannery, not because we’re Irish, because we’re not (a fact I’ve tried to impart to my mother, who has developed a sudden obsession with Belleek China) but because of...
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The End of Your Life Book Club by Will Schwalbe
Will Schwalbe recounts conversations he had with his mother, Mary Anne, the last few months before her death from pancreatic cancer. They discuss memories, plans, and books they’re reading. It’s hard...
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I Want My MTV: the Uncensored Story of the Music Video Revolution
I am currently reading this book, which is an oral history of MTV through 1992. This corresponds with my growing up years almost exactly, which is to say, I am the target audience. I expect I will be...
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Queen of the Conqueror by Tracy Borman
Time for my non-fiction palate cleanser (per my usual ratio of nonfiction: fiction of 1:6): a biography of Matilda, wife and consort of William the Conqueror, Duchess of Normandy, Queen of England. I...
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Paris in Love by Eloisa James
If you’d pressed me for an ideal life plan when I was in college, I would likely have come up with something like the one currently inhabited by Mary Bly (when she’s an academic professor of...
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Feeding my London Obsession – Londoners by Craig Taylor
The author assembled this London collage from interviews with all sorts of London residents. Some of them are clearly disfunctional, but all of them are interesting. Artists, street sweepers, financial...
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