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Review: The Miniature Wife and Other Stories by Manuel Gonzales

image via Goodreads title: The Miniature Wife and Other Stories [support an independent bookseller and buy at Powell's] by: Manuel Gonzales genre: short stories (speculative fiction/science fiction)...

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Review: Just Kids by Patti Smith

image via Strand title: Just Kids [support an independent bookseller and buy at Strand] by: Patti Smith genre: memoir pages: 279 published: January 2010 source: New York Public Library “Robert...

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Review: Edie: American Girl by Jean Stein

image via Strand Books title: Edie: American Girl [support an independent bookseller and buy at Strand] by: Jean Stein edited by: George Plimpton genre: biography pages: 455 published: 1982 source:...

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Review: Smut by Alan Bennett

image via Strand website title: Smut: Stories [support an independent bookseller and buy at Strand] by: Alan Bennett genre: short stories pages: 152 published: 2010 source: I was a lent a copy by a...

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Review: Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote

image via Goodreads title: Breakfast at Tiffany’s [support an independent bookseller and buy at Strand] by: Truman Capote genre: short stories pages: 157 published: 2000 source: my personal library...

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Review: Pyg: The Memoirs of Toby, the Learned Pig Edited by Russell Potter

image via Strand title: Pyg: The Memoirs of Toby, the Learned Pig [support an independent bookseller and buy at Strand] by: Russell Potter genre: fiction pages: 274 published: 2012 source: I received...

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Review: Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa...

image via Strand title: Anna Karenina [support an independent bookseller and buy at Strand] by: Leo Tolstoy      translated by: Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky genre: classic/literary fiction...

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Review: Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert, translated by Lydia Davis

image via Strand title: Madame Bovary [support an independent bookseller and buy at Strand] by: Gustave Flaubert      translated by: Lydia Davis genre: classic/literary fiction pages: 342 published:...

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Review: Reading Jackie: Her Autobiography in Books by William Kuhn

image via Strand title: Reading Jackie: Her Autobiography in Books [support an independent bookseller and buy at Strand] by: William Kuhn genre: biography pages: 416 published: 2010 source: my personal...

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Review: How To Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia by Mohsin Hamid

image via Strand title: How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia [support an independent bookseller and buy at Strand] by: Mohsin Hamid genre: literary fiction pages: 245 published: 2013 source: I...

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Review: Howard’s End by E.M. Forster

image via Strand title: Howards End [support an independent bookseller and buy at Strand] by: E.M. Forster genre: fiction pages: 359 published: 1910 source: my personal library GENERAL SPOILER ALERT:...

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Review: The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

image via Strand title: The House of Mirth [support an independent bookseller and buy at Strand] by: Edith Wharton genre: fiction pages: 347 published: 1905 source: my personal library GENERAL SPOILER...

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Review: Never Mind by Edward St. Aubyn

image source title:  Never Mind [support an independent bookseller and buy at Strand] by: Edward St. Aubyn genre: fiction pages: 256 published: 1992 source: my personal library “The English didn’t ask...

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Review: Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche by Haruki...

title: Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Underground  [support an independent bookseller and buy at Strand] by: Haruki Murakami genre: nonfiction (interviews) pages: 366 published:...

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Review: A Guide to Being Born by Ramona Ausubel

image via Strand title:  A Guide to Being Born [support an independent bookseller and buy at Strand] by: Ramona Ausubel genre: short stories/magical realism pages: 195 published: 2013 source: I...

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Review: Jagannath by Karin Tidbeck

image via Goodreads title:  Jagannath: Stories by: Karin Tidbeck genre: fiction/short stories pages: 134 published: 2012 source: my personal library Wow. Just wow. If you’ve never heard of Karin...

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The Lust List: November

Here are a few things I’m lusting after this November… 1.  Check-print blouse by Zara ($49) 2. Black Mini-Skort by Zara ($49.90) 3.   The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton ($25) 4.  The Goldfinch by Donna...

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Review: After the Quake by Haruki Murakami

image via the Strand website title:  After the Quake [support an independent bookseller and buy at Strand] by: Haruki Murakami genre: short stories/fiction pages: 147 published: 2002 source: my...

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Review: Three Strong Women by Marie NDiaye

image via the Strand website title:  Three Strong Women [support an independent bookseller and buy at Strand] by: Marie NDiaye genre: literary fiction pages: 293 published: 2009, translated in 2012...

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Review: Reeds in the Wind by Grazia Deledda

title:  Reeds in the Wind by: Grazia Deledda (Translated by Martha King) genre: fiction pages: 199 published: translation 1999; originally published in 1913 source: my personal library Being the OG...

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