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30something that works in the print industry, draws, and considers themselves an amateur historian.
I collect vintage children's books, vintage Agatha Christie paperbacks, and the entire Redwall series.
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Emil started reading Tree Thieves by Lyndsie Bourgon
Tree Thieves by Lyndsie Bourgon
A gripping account of the billion-dollar timber black market — and how it intersects with environmentalism, class and culture.
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Emil started reading Ten Days in a Mad-House by Nellie Bly
Ten Days in a Mad-House by Nellie Bly, Nellie Bly
Ten Days in a Mad-House is a book by American journalist Nellie Bly. It was initially published as a series …
Emil rated A good man is hard to find, and other stories: 3 stars
A good man is hard to find, and other stories by Flannery O'Connor (An HBJ modern classic)
The collection that established O’Connor’s reputation as one of the American masters of the short story. The volume contains the …
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
From the New York Times bestselling author of Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, an intoxicating, hypnotic new novel set …
Emil rated Cottonmouths: 4 stars
Emil rated The house on Mango Street: 4 stars
Emil rated If Beale Street could talk: 5 stars
If Beale Street could talk by James Baldwin
If Beale Street Could Talk is a 1974 novel by American writer James Baldwin. His fifth novel (and 13th book …
Emil rated The spectators: 3 stars
The spectators by Victor Hussenot
What if we are merely shadows, our characters defined by a simple inflection of light? The realm of possibilities opens …
Emil rated Daughters of Snow and Cinders: 5 stars
Emil rated Red Colored Elegy: 3 stars
Red Colored Elegy by Seiichi Hayashi
Translated from the Japanese. Originally published in 1970-1971.
Emil rated Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: 4 stars
Blues Legacies and Black Feminism by Angela Y. Davis
From one of this country's most important intellectuals comes a brilliant analysis of the blues tradition that examines the careers …
Emil rated Their Eyes Were Watching God: 4 stars
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
I loved Jonah's Gourd Vine -- thought some of her short stories very fine -- and feel that this measures …
