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Ellie Kemper recommended Cold Spring Harbor in Books (curated)

 
Cold Spring Harbor
Cold Spring Harbor
Richard Yates | 2018 | Fiction & Poetry
(0 Ratings)
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"As in all of Yates’s books, the characters are modeled after people in his life, and this book is primarily about his mother. It’s like August: Osage County, if it were set on Long Island in the 1930s. The story may be bleak and hopeless, but Yates’s prose is unpretentious and irresistible."

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Mary Gordon recommended Dubliners in Books (curated)

 
Dubliners
Dubliners
James Joyce, Terence Brown | 2000 | Fiction & Poetry
7.5 (4 Ratings)
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"The lives of ordinary people in a second rate city are given depth and tragic resonance in sensually realized prose. “The Dead,” in particular succeeds in rendering a perfectly realistic scene: a holiday party, brilliantly capturing different voices and registers, and then wallops us with a vision of life, love, death and meaning."

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Roxane Gay recommended Pachinko in Books (curated)

 
Pachinko
Pachinko
Min Jin Lee | 2017 | Fiction & Poetry
9.0 (3 Ratings)
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"Pachinko is the novel I tell anyone who will listen about. It is a multigenerational, sweeping saga of Koreans in Japan. The prose is as edifying as it is absorbing. There are no easy, convenient endings for any of these characters but my goodness, how richly Min Jin Lee renders their lives."

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Roxane Gay recommended Pachinko in Books (curated)

 
Pachinko
Pachinko
Min Jin Lee | 2017 | Fiction & Poetry
9.0 (3 Ratings)
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"Pachinko” is the novel I tell anyone who will listen about. It is a multigenerational, sweeping saga of Koreans in Japan. The prose is as edifying as it is absorbing. There are no easy, convenient endings for any of these characters but my goodness, how richly Min Jin Lee renders their lives."

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Matthew Modine recommended Birdy in Books (curated)

 
Birdy
Birdy
William Wharton | 2012 | Fiction & Poetry, Romance
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"Okay, yeah, I did play Birdy in the film directed by the always amazing Sir Alan Parker. If you saw the movie, you should read the book. The hypnotic magic of Wharton’s prose is pure poetry. After you read the book, watch, or re-watch the film and see how right we actually got it."

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Milleen (47 KP) rated Uncommon Type: Some Stories in Books

Jan 14, 2019  
Uncommon Type: Some Stories
Uncommon Type: Some Stories
Tom Hanks | 2017 | Fiction & Poetry
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7.6 (7 Ratings)
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This is a collection of short stories that have been crafted by the Oscar winning Mr Hanks over the past twenty years. Each story has a connection to one of those nostalgic machines, a typewriter. The style of prose is very Hanks, you can hear his voice in the expression of his characters. There is warmth, gentleness and an essence of reality that leads you to believe that, despite all his worldly success, Hanks remains grounded and likeable. Whilst this isn’t the best example of prose, it has a lot to offer, if you are a fan of Hanks then this is an insightful, pleasant read. I listened to some of the stories on audio and thoroughly enjoyed hearing them told by the man himself.