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The Art of Racing in the Rain

Just finished The Art of Racing in the Rain and loved it!! It was such an enjoyable read. In case..

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Can we finally get rid of the term "Chick Lit"?

Amen! Why is fiction by female writers given this diminutive title? Linda Homes tackles this..

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Can we finally get rid of the term "Chick Lit"?

admin ― 9 days ago
www.npr.org ― Amen! Why is fiction by female writers given this diminutive title? Linda Homes tackles this question via the Jodi Picoult/Jennifer Weiner #franzenfreude discussion. (General Fiction)
Tag: women writers, a room of one's own
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The Art of Racing in the Rain

juliepippert ― 10 days ago
www.themotherhood.com ― Just finished The Art of Racing in the Rain and loved it!! It was such an enjoyable read. In case you've somehow missed hearing about it, it's a story about the Swift family told from the perspective of the dog, Enzo. Enzo is frustrated by his dogness, but nevertheless finds ways to communicate with his family and make a difference in their lives and his own. It's not at all a hokey situation, no (General Fiction)
Tag: stories about dogs, racing in the rain
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Reflections on a year of reading

admin ― 46 days ago
www.themillions.com ― Doug Bruns spent a year reading long novels (2666, Infinite Jest, Olive Kitteridge, et al.) and reflects on the experience here. I especially love his description of book reading as an addiction. As he says, "A reader cannot help but read a good book." Yes. (General Fiction)
Tag: reading, big books, essays
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Gen X at Mid Life

Ashley ― 46 days ago
www.thedailybeast.com ― Bret Easton Ellis and Jennifer Egan both have new books out that examine Gen X (my generation) at mid-life. (Doesn't "mid-life" sound so much better than "middle aged"?) I'm not a big fan of Ellis, but I don't know that I'll be able to resist catching up with Julian and Clay in their 40s. And Egan's book has had lots of buzz on Twitter.

This article from Taylor Antrim at The Dai (General Fiction)
Tag: gen x, mid life, help!
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The best books of the summer

admin ― 66 days ago
www.thedailybeast.com ― The Daily Beast gives us their top reads from this summer. I've read one; two more are on my radar. The others? I need to read further... (General Fiction)
Tag: lists, best of, summer
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The American novel is dead? What?!?

Ashley ― 64 days ago
www.guardian.co.uk ― Lee Siegel declares that the American novel is dead and that the American public no longer has a desire to discuss novels. I need to read the full article, but the snippets presented here are mind-boggling! (General Fiction)
Tag: novels, america, fiction
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Best of the bestsellers

Ashley ― 66 days ago
www.npr.org ― This is why I love NPR. They sort through the bestseller list so I don't have to. What do you think of their recommendations? (General Fiction)
Tag: npr, lists, bestsellers
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Books about The City

Ashley ― 72 days ago
An excerpt from the essay: "I’ve been thinking lately about the ways in which our cities are layered, the way different versions of a given city exist as shadows of one another, and coming across a story wherein the layering was so explicit delighted me." Emily St. John Mandel discusses several city-specific books -- The City and the City by China Mieville; Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere; and Last Nig (General Fiction)
Tag: the city, essays about reading, urban
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