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The title stopped me cold before I opened a single page: Breathing Lessons. Anyone who has had a panic attack, or a long marriage, knows exactly what those…
Read more of this comment about Breathing Lessons (Pulitzer Prize…The title hooked me before I read a single word: A Spool of Blue Thread. I crochet. I know thread; the soft twist of yarn in my hands, the way a single…
Read more of this comment about A Spool of Blue ThreadThis book made me cry at a fist bump. That's not a sentence I expected to write. I started Project Hail Mary on a Sunday and finished it on Wednesday,…
Read more of this comment about Project Hail MaryBrooklyn ended with Éilis Lacey boarding a train at dawn, a secret marriage on her finger, photographs of another man at the bottom of her suitcase, and…
Read more of this comment about Long IslandSt. Patrick's Day is not an Irish holiday. Not really. The biggest parades are in New York, Boston, Chicago, and Tucson. It's a diaspora holiday, built…
Read more of this comment about BrooklynSoñadores opens on a bridge "expansive like the universe," and you never quite know what kind of crossing this is; the physical US-Mexico border, or something…
Read more of this comment about SoñadoresThere is a seven-inch hole cut into the center of this novel, and everything falls through it. The hole is literal at first: a circle cut into a white…
Read more of this comment about Midnight's ChildrenUn amigo mío, que me dijo que no considerara las novelas de ciencia ficción como fantasía, sino como un texto para obtener creatividad e ideas, me hizo pensar…
Read more of this comment about Snow CrashA friend of mine, who told me not to just look at science fiction novels as fantasy but as a text to get creativity and ideas, made me think that I should…
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The Trial Franz Kafka Cuando empecé a leer El proceso, supuse que sería como la mayoría de las reseñas que decían que era difícil o pesado de leer. Pensé que…
Read more of this comment about The TrialThe Trial Franz Kafka When I began reading "The Trial", I assumed the book would be like most other reviews described it as a difficult or heavy to read.…
Read more of this comment about The TrialThe Metamorphosis Franz Kafka Metamorphosis: The process of transformation from an immature form to an adult form in two or more distinct stages. In this…
Read more of this comment about Metamorphosis and Other Stories…I found this book by chance at Barnes & Noble. The saguaro cactus on the cover stood out to me. Living in Tucson, I see saguaros as silent witnesses to…
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Writing this from Tucson, where the Sonoran Desert teaches us daily that survival is a practice, not a destination, and where "home" is still a question…
Read more of this comment about PalaverI was hooked on this book—until I wasn’t. For eleven chapters, Audition kept me gripped by a slow, growing sense of dread. It’s the kind of feeling where even…
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Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
Some novels earn the word “masterpiece” by ambition alone. Anne Tyler’s Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant earns it by precision, by the quiet, devastating accuracy…
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