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Poets, Players, and Preachers: Remembering the Gunpowder Plot in Seventeenth-Century England

Anne James

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On the night of November 4th 1605, the English authorities uncovered an alleged plot by a group of...

That Self-Forgetful Perfectly Useless Concentration

Alan Shapiro

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More than a gathering of essays, That Self-Forgetful Perfectly Useless Concentration is part memoir,...

Trish (4 KP) rated The Storied Life of AJ Fikry in Books

Feb 8, 2018

this was one of the best books I've read in a long time. I laughed, I cried. Some things were predictable, others were not. A book about a bookseller. The literary references and discussion spoke to my inner book nerd. Read it!

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Kevin Powers recommended The Son in Books (curated)

The Son

Philipp Meyer | 2014 | Contemporary, Fiction & Poetry

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"Meyer’s first book, American Rust, was a literary page-turner. His second, The Son, is an American epic. I read an advance copy and came away staggered by its power and depth. I haven’t read anything this good in a long, long time."

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Tom Perrotta recommended Behind the Beautiful Forevers in Books (curated)

"This harrowing account of life in a slum near the Mumbai airport is a kind of literary miracle. Boo captures the texture of the place, and the hopes and struggles of its residents, with an intimacy that a novelist can only envy."

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The Chocolate Lady (94 KP) rated The Little Paris Bookshop in Books

Oct 7, 2020

Nina George's charming book about a bookshop moored on the Seine in Paris takes you on a literary and emotional journey. You can read more about this novel in my review here. https://tcl-bookreviews.com/2016/06/04/books-on-the-waters/