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The Best of Me by David Sedaris

Posted on January 11, 2021 by vicky

Listening to this audiobook of hand-selected essays from Sedaris’ 27 years of published works is in turns hilarious and heart-breaking. He is just so good. #25wordbookreviews (amzn)

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Vintage by Steve Berman

Posted on January 9, 2021 by elise

It’s very earnest, but damn, does it need an editor. Compelling story—I wanted to keep reading—but the technical problems outweighed the interest factor.

Posted in #25wordbookreviews, Audiobooks, Books, Reading

Help Thanks Wow by Anne Lamott

Posted on January 9, 2021 by elise

Anne’s audiobooks, which she narrates herself, are always comforting. This one’s not for everyone, but I enjoyed it. Good way to start the new year.

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The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead

Posted on September 3, 2019 by vicky

This was a difficult book to read — for the content, not the writing — but it turns out to be a spectacularly beautiful story. #25wordbookreviews (Amzn)

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Stay Sexy & Don’t Get Murdered by Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark

Posted on August 31, 2019August 31, 2019 by vicky

I wanted to understand why people are obsessed with true crime. The last chapter helped. It’s still not for me, but I kinda get it. #25wordbookreview (Amzn)

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Ask Again, Yes by Mary Beth Keane

Posted on August 31, 2019 by vicky

I love novels about the never-quite-complete (but still somehow beautiful) recovery from trauma. This one is hopeful without being trite, about many types of love. #25wordbookreview (Amzn)

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I Like to Watch by Emily Nussbaum

Posted on August 31, 2019 by vicky

God, was this a great book. I didn’t realize how hungry I was to hear modern television discussed as the art form it really is. #25wordbookreviews (Amzn)

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City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert

Posted on August 31, 2019August 31, 2019 by vicky

The first novel I think I’ve ever read where a woman has an independent lifestyle and a healthy sexual appetite… and isn’t ruined by them. #25wordbookreview (Amzn)

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Very Nice by Marcy Dermansky

Posted on August 5, 2019 by vicky

Not so terrible that I stopped reading, I guess. One of those novels where everyone is an asshole and you’re supposed to find it funny. #25wordbookreviews (Amazon)

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Three Women by Lisa Taddeo

Posted on August 5, 2019August 5, 2019 by vicky

I would love the book this was advertised to be — but it was actually about three women’s painful sexual experiences, delivered with soft-core porn detail. #25wordbookreviews (Amazon)

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A commonplace book is a collection of knowledge. It is a journal filled with everything from quotations, observations, and citations to formulas, facts, and figures–anything that’s worth remembering from anything one has read, heard, or seen. In a way it is a scrapbook, commemorating and keeping track of the things we have learned and the places we have been, figuratively or literally, via the media that passes through our lives: books, articles, poems, movies, songs, blogs, and so on. Commonplace books are kept by readers, writers, scholars, and students of schools and of life.

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