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Oh how I love Rebecca Solnit. She is thoughtful, observant, and curious about everything. I read this exploration on wandering and what it means to be lost and I've been fascinated by her since. If you love nature or history, or appreciate a good landscape and a nice long walk, you must read this book.
~ recommended April, 2013
Years after the success of On the Road, Kerouac's alter ego heads to a cabin in north California to escape his fame. While at the cabin, he reconnects with nature and enjoys his solitude, but after a trip to San Francisco, he plunges into madness. In typical Beat sensibility, there are sentence-long paragraphs, but the brief, breathless chapters combined with the narrator's more mature perspective make this slim novel one of his best.
~ recommended January, 2013
In this unconventional memoir, Ondaatje returns to his native home of Sri Lanka to learn more about his father. The chapters include memories, anecdotes, poetry, travelogues, and lovely imagined scenes, all combining to form a beautiful mosaic of a family. I particularly loved the sections about Ondaatje's maternal grandmother, Lalla.
~ recommended August, 2012
Maggie Nelson (author of The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning) uses her love for the color blue as a prism to explore not only her own life, but love, loss, art, philosophy, history, and pain. Made up 240 loosely connected fragments, this slim book is intense and brilliant and unlike any other I've read.
~ recommended March, 2012
~ recommended January, 2012
Karen Russell will charm you from start to finish in this dazzling collection of short stories. With quirky, fantastical premises (think George Saunders or Italo Calvino), precocious children narrators, and beautiful, lyrical sentences, Russell is a true master of the short story form.
~ recommended November, 2011
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