Azurmas's BookShelf: 6 books, 6 viewable entries [view entries] [view profile]
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Bridge of Sighsby...Richard Russo rating...5 shelf...favouritetags...art belt general new rust stores thomastown york entry...'Russo's latest exploration of a small northeastern town in stagnation is near perfect, but the sheer length of the book challenges the readers to endure. For those that do, Bridge ...' view |
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The Company Car: A Novelby...C.J. Hribal rating...4 shelf...have readtags...americana antinostalgia family fiction fifties entry...'Large families sagas allow writers to explore much more than mores against birth control; in 'The Company Car' C.J. Hribal isn't shy about pitting the Czabeks against the increasingly intangible ...' view |
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The Laments: A Novelby...George Hagen rating...4 shelf...have readtags...comedy dark english expatriates family tragedy entry...'As other reviewers have suggested, the Laments are aptly named. Tragedy visits the family frequently, but it is less of a jolt to the readers than it might be, thanks ...' view |
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The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in Americaby...Louis Menand rating...5 shelf...have readtags...19th century civil metaphysics post pragmatism war entry...'If the Civil War was the social and political version of severe bodily trauma, most of the survivors stand in for the body's red blood cells, attempting to clot the ...' view |
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The Weatherman: A Novelby...Clint McCown rating...4 shelf...have readtags...alabama bee civil radio rights spelling entry...'Training montages are becoming an unwelcome cliché. As a reader, I am far more impressed by an author who can write a character struggling through his or her first day ...' view |
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You Are Here: Personal Geographies and Other Maps of the Imaginationby... rating...5 shelf...have readtags...arts cartography graphic maps entry...'Unlike most of the books I've recommended, 'You Are Here' can be read out of sequence, and multiple times, with no loss of pleasure. The experience is more akin to ...' view |
