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BOOK REVIEWS – Five ⭐️ Favorites Listed at Top

  • How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water- Angie Cruz (5* Audio)
  • The Book of Form and Emptiness – Ruth Ozeki – audible
  • The House of Doors – Tan Twan Eng
  • Four Treasures of the Sky – Jenny Tinghui Zhang (Audio)
  • Lone Dog Road – Kent Nerburn (audio narrated by Lynch Travis, Matt Haynes, Benjamin Collins, Tanis Parenteau)
  • America, Let Me In: A Choose Your Immigration Story – Felipe Torres Medina
  • I Cheerfully Refuse – Leif Enger (Audio Narrator: David Allen Baker)
  • What You Are Looking For Is in the Library – Michiko Aoyama (Audible narrators -Hanako Footman, Susan Momoko Hingley, Kenichiro Thomson, Wilson Ting, Shiro Kawai)
  • Lincoln in the Bardo – George Saunders (Audio cast below)

Tag: #Satire

The Society of Shame – Jane Roper

The Society of Shame is a clever satire. Kathleen Held, wife of a progressive US Senate candidate, Bill Held, returns home in a taxi to find her garage on fire, her husband near the conflagration with his pants down, and the woman her husband was with, nearby, decidedly disheveled. After saving the family dog, the … Continue reading The Society of Shame – Jane Roper →

Emily Leader Book Reviews Leave a comment April 25, 2023 2 Minutes

Harry Sylvester Bird -Chinelo Okparenta

In 2006, at 14, Harry travels with his parents, Wayne and Chevrolet, to Tanzania. Already acutely aware that his parents are neglectful and not much his cup of tea, Harry calls them by their first names. Wayne is selfish, racist, boorish, politically a member of a third party, the "Purists," who just won the presidential … Continue reading Harry Sylvester Bird -Chinelo Okparenta →

Emily Leader Book Reviews Leave a comment October 27, 2022 2 Minutes
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