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Aug 9, 2020
Books Editor (673 KP) shared own list
Oct 7, 2017
Bluebird, Bluebird
Book
Southern fables usually go the other way around: a white woman killed or harmed in some way, real or...
Thriller
One Nation After Trump: A Guide for the Perplexed, the Disillusioned, the Desperate, and the Not-Yet Deported
E.J. Dionne Jr., Norman J. Ornstein and Thomas E. Mann
Book
A call to action from three of Washington's premier political scholar-journalists, One Nation After...
Politics social issues
Afterglow: A Dog's Memoir
Book
Prolific and widely renowned, Eileen Myles is a trailblazer whose decades of literary and artistic...
Biography
The Stone Sky: The Broken Earth
Book
The remarkable conclusion to the highly acclaimed post-apocalyptic trilogy that began with...
Science fiction
At the Strangers' Gate: Arrivals in New York
Book
From The New York Times best-selling author of Paris to the Moon and beloved New Yorker writer, a...
Biography
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Jessica Cashen (1 KP) rated Getting Off: One Woman's Journey Through Sex and Porn Addiction in Books
May 16, 2018
Wendi McLendon-Covey recommended Walking with the Muses: A Memoir in Books (curated)
Ibram X. Kendi recommended Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches in Books (curated)
Daniel Pinchbeck recommended Minor Characters in Books (curated)
MoMoBookDiary (20 KP) rated The Sea Is Quiet Tonight: A Memoir in Books
Oct 1, 2018
“The Sea Is Quiet Tonight: A Memoir” tells a heartbreaking story that will have you hooked from the start. The author writes from the heart as he tells the wonderful yet brutally honest story of his relationship with his partner, Mark Halberstadt. Mark was the 100th person in Massachusetts to be diagnosed with AIDS. I was too young to fully understand the chatter about AIDS during the 1980s. Since then, I have read a number of articles and books on the devastation brought with an AIDS diagnosis – nothing has touched me in the way this memoir has. At times I felt that I was reading the author’s personal diary, it was so raw and honest. The characters were described perfectly and I felt that I knew them personally.
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