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My favorite books provide a window to a culture or world that is different than my own -- White Teeth by Zadie Smith and Yellow Raft in Blue Water by Michael Dorris come to mind. Prose that comes close to poetry also engages me. Joan Didion sets the standard for me on that front. For escape, I dabble in chick lit (Marian Keyes) and suspense novels in audio (David Baldacci). When I'm not reading, I work at Alibris to improve the user experience on the website and now here on the blog.
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Jennifer Weiner is jealous
“What’s a girl have to do to get plagiarized in this town?” asked chick-lit favorite author Jennifer Weiner via her Web site as she headed off on book tour for Goodnight Nobody.
The New York Times reported this week that Harvard student Kaavya Viswanathan had ripped passages from not just one but three authors as she […]
Black Swan Green makes Book Sense for me
The May 2006 Book Sense Picks list is out and (as is usual) the recommended reads are a delightful mix of authors and titles, both familiar and obscure. Poring over the list is one of my favorite beginning-of-month pastimes. The recommendations from independent booksellers around the country are just eclectic enough to keep me feeling […]
The Year of Magical Thinking, by Joan Didion
By Robin, Apr 25, 2006 at 12:10 pm
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Joan Didion is at her best in The Year of Magical Thinking, an unusual memoir in which she applies her uniquely acute observation skills to her own grief in the wake of the deaths of her husband and daughter. What makes this book different than her others is the the raw emotion that courses through […]
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