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The Chocolate Lady (94 KP) rated The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend in Books

Oct 5, 2020  
The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend
The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend
Katarina Bivald | 2016 | Fiction & Poetry
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6.0 (4 Ratings)
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They say, "There’s a book for every person ... and a person for every book." Apparently, that's universal, and applies to the likes of unassuming Sara from Sweden, as well as to the inhabitants of the tiny Iowa town of Broken Wheel. Read more about this charming book in my review. https://tcl-bookreviews.com/2016/01/06/nothing-lost-in-translation/
  
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Michael C. Hall recommended A Thousand Acres in Books (curated)

 
A Thousand Acres
A Thousand Acres
Jane Smiley | 2014 | Fiction & Poetry
5.0 (2 Ratings)
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"This novel, based on the story of King Lear and set in an Iowa farming community in the late 1970s, has a phenomenal narrator. Ginny never betrays her voice; she’s initially naive and always straightforward. Yet she manages to drop deft charges of insight on virtually every page. A devastating and gorgeous account of fathers and daughters, husbands and wives, toxic masculinity, corrosive secrets…and an abiding heroine."

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Chuck Palahniuk recommended Flannery in Books (curated)

 
Flannery
Flannery
Brad Gooch | 2009 | Biography, History & Politics
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"Why do the lives of writers seem so… train-wrecky? Mary Flannery O’Connor was no exception. She survived the back-to-back snake pits of the Iowa Writers Workshop and the Yaddo colony only to find herself trapped at home with her strong-willed mother and crippling lupus. The life of this Southern Gothic belle makes the somber existence of Emily Dickinson look like a barrel full of monkeys."

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Philip Seymour Hoffman recommended A Thousand Acres in Books (curated)

 
A Thousand Acres
A Thousand Acres
Jane Smiley | 2014 | Fiction & Poetry
5.0 (2 Ratings)
Book Favorite

"I just love this book. When I was halfway through it—right around when one of the three daughters tries to talk to her father and he goes out into a storm—I was like, “Oh my God, this is King Lear.” I was so impressed with how Smiley was able to take such a classic tale and put it in rural 20th-century Iowa. It’s beautiful, it’s crushing, it’s everything King Lear is—and it’s effortless. I was blown away by the imagination, intellect and talent it must have taken to do that."

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