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Books Editor (673 KP) shared own list

Oct 15, 2017

Two finalists for the National Book Awards appear on this week’s New York Times list: Frank Bidart’s collected poems, “Half-Light,” and Carmen Maria Machado’s debut collection of stories, “Her Body and Other Parties.”

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New York Times Top Books This Week 12/10

We’re nearing the season for ghost stories — or in some cases un-ghost stories and cautionary tales about what happens when we try too hard to put our history behind us.

Fresh Complaint

Jeffrey Eugenides

7.0 (1 Ratings) Rate It

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The first collection of short fiction from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Virgin Suicides,...

short stories

A Properly Unhaunted Place

William Alexander and Kelly Murphy

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From National Book Award–winning author William Alexander comes a wryly humorous story about two...

Children

The Wolf, the Duck and the Mouse

Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen

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Early one morning a mouse met a wolf and was quickly gobbled up... When a woeful mouse is swallowed...

Children

The Twelve-Mile Straight

Eleanor Henderson

8.0 (1 Ratings) Rate It

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From New York Times bestselling author Eleanor Henderson, an audacious American epic set in rural...

historical fiction social issues

Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2016

Frank Bidart

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The collected works of one of contemporary poetry’s most original voices Gathered together, the...

Poetry

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The Sloan Ranger (8 KP) rated Wonder Woman (2017) in Movies

Jul 11, 2017

Wonder Woman (2017)

2017 | Action, Fantasy, War

8.2

(517 Ratings)

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Four screenings in and I'm still punching the air every time

One of the strongest superhero origin stories so far - the shift from WW2 to WW1 is absolutely inspired, and serves the character beautifully.

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Scarlet (20 KP) rated The School at the Chalet in Books

Sep 18, 2017

A wonderful tale

If you like traditional boarding school stories you will probably enjoy this book. Unlike most books of this genre it starts with the school being set up and how it grows.

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The Marinated Meeple (1853 KP) rated Norse Mythology in Books

Mar 28, 2018

Norse Mythology

Neil Gaiman | 2017 | Fiction & Poetry

8.4

(38 Ratings)

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Classic Norse Mythology (0 more)

Gaimen edited and tweaked classic norse mythology.

A good solid effort to distill and preserve Norse Mythology. I enjoyed the read, but there is nothing new to this set of stories.

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Jenn C (340 KP) rated All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens Throughout the Ages in Books

Aug 22, 2018

Some of these stories I loved, others I hated. So it was an all over the place book for me. It did show me a few authors I definitely want to read more of.

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AT (1676 KP) rated Yona of the Dawn, Vol. 12 in Books

Mar 9, 2020 (Updated Mar 9, 2020)

Yona of the Dawn, Vol. 12

Mizuho Kusanagi | 2018 | Comics & Graphic Novels

6.0

(1 Ratings)

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The story, itself, wasn't very interesting. It laid the groundwork for an attack, but it lasted for the whole volume. The two short extra stories at the end of the volume were more interesting.