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The best book you've never heard of
At first I thought, My God, this book is phenomenal! So much motion in the language, such immediate, immersive scene-setting—and the tension, right from…
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The hope! The guilt! The quest for shelving!
[This post was initially written in January 2023, when I first started tracking the books I've bought and read each month.] This morning I started State…
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All about cheating
Sometimes you read an excerpt of a memoir about adultery, and you think, Huh. That’s an interesting structure for a book. So you buy the book and you…
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"The time when we are closest to each other"
I committed my first crime in a Baton Rouge grocery store when I was four years old. A pad of stationery caught my eye–pale pink with darker pink lines…
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Forgetting my own difficulties
Sometimes life leads you down a William Landay rabbit hole. Landay is the author of Defending Jacob, a book I loved when it came out eleven years ago…
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It's not the books, it's me.
I’ve had a rough reading stretch. Things I’d usually love I want to hurl across the room; things I wouldn’t normally read I’m adoring. It’s not the…
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Julie Sternberg’s Substack
I write about the books I've bought (too many) and the ones I've read (too few).
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