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A Movable Feast – Ernest Hemingway
As a book person it’s hard not to idolize the 1920s Paris writer scene. All that drinking and sex and travel and saving the world through writing. Sigh. Hemingway gives us his “you can believe it’s true if you want” account of his time in Paris in the early ’20s with Joyce, Fitzgerald, and Stein. …
Parable of the Talents – Octavia Butler
Is a cult what I want to start? If you know me, you know I’ve been planning a women & children only community for decades. Not because the world fell apart like in this book (though the parallels are depressing!), but because who better to take care of each other and keep each other safe …
Looking for the Good War: American Amnesia and the Violent Pursuit of Happiness – Elizabeth D. Samet
In America we’ve developed a myopia around our own reverence for “The Troops” that means thanking them for their service wherever you go and setting aside thank you’s a national sporting events. For someone who comes from a military family, loves a good war novel, and abhors the actual action of war and the trillions …
The Witch of Matongé – Madison Smartt Bell
I got this fabulous free book from Concord Press just by asking for it. I love free books. They only ask that you make a donation to a cause and pass the book along. I gave a little more to abortion funds this month in thanks for their work. OK, the book. Holy wow. Filled …
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