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The stories in this edition represent the great diversity of her work, from humor to her shocking explorations of the …
The stories in this edition represent the great diversity of her work, from humor to …
Several of these stories will be rolling around inside my brain for a long time to come.
A lively and magisterial popular history that refutes common misperceptions of the European Middle Ages, showing the beauty and communion …
I did skim the notes and there was interesting stuff in there.
In Enheduana: The Complete Poems of The World’s First Author, Sophus Helle provides Anglophone readers …
Okay, I haven't read all the notes at the back but whatever. I'm calling this finished. (I might skim the notes before I return it to the library; looks like there might be interesting stuff in there. But I am very tired and very sad and do not have an appetite for end notes tonight.)
Among its other virtues, this book reactivated my ever-present desire to see an aurochs in person. I always want to, but Enheduana really kicked that into high gear.
In Enheduana: The Complete Poems of The World’s First Author, Sophus Helle provides Anglophone readers access to the Sumerian author …
The stories in this edition represent the great diversity of her work, from humor to …
Here we go
It's a joy to announce that John Sandford is still doing everything right," wrote the …
I hate this with every part of me that's capable of feeling hatred! I am too tired to get into it all now, but ARGH. This really feels like what you'd get if you commissioned a devil to write a novel precision calibrated to annoy me, personally. Sandford's a more than competent writer; my ire is roused by content, not lack of storytelling prowess. ARGH!
In a quiet, leafy suburb in upstate New York, a teenager has been sneaking into …
Going to admit I went from kind of rolling my eyes at parts to "...well played, Lapena. Well played." (I kind-of-sort-of figured out the killer about 2/3 through, but was slightly wrong, and that's basically my sweet spot for this type of novel.)
Fell down a Wikipedia rabbit hole after finishing Shirley Jackson's Hangsaman, and now I need to find and read this one.
Seventeen-year-old Natalie Waite longs to escape home for college. Her father is a domineering and …
Blew my little mind, as we all knew it would
Seventeen-year-old Natalie Waite longs to escape home for college. Her father is a domineering and …
Eighteen pages in and this already owns.
Norah is the good kid. Good at pleasing her parents and being a good sister. …
...because Colleen is one of my very favorite people, so I don't know how much credibility I have when I say Knots rules and everyone should read it. Nearly made me cry on the light rail! A sensitive story about anxiety and complicated family dynamics told with humor and grace.
