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Tag Archives: debut
Autobiography of Us
Autobiography of Us is a novel by Aria Beth Sloss, © Henry Holt 2013
Posted in Book Review
Tagged America, book review, California, choice, contemporary fiction, debut, feminism, fiction, gender, gender revolution, loneliness, love, memory, perspective, retrospective, social causes, social revolution, women
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Love, an Index
Love, an Index is a collection of poetry by Rebecca Lindenberg, © McSweeney’s 2012
Posted in Book Review
Tagged book review, contemporary poetry, death, debut, loneliness, loss, love, memory, poetry, reading process, retrospective, travel
6 Comments
How to Get into the Twin Palms
How to Get into the Twin Palms is a novel by Karolina Waclawiak, © Two Dollar Radio 2012
Posted in Book Review
Tagged awkward, belonging, book review, boredom, contemporary fiction, culture, debut, fiction, forest fires, immigration, loneliness, Los Angeles, Moby Dick, names, naming, novel, old world, Open City, passing, Teju Cole
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Night Circus
The Night Circus is a novel by Erin Morgenstern, © Doubleday 2011
Posted in Book Review
Tagged book review, circus, competition, contemporary fiction, debut, fantasy, fiction, harry potter, love, magic, nature, novel, perspective, power, second person
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Open City
Open City is a novel by Teju Cole, © Random House 2011 You hadn’t heard about Cormac’s Olivetti? Check it out.
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Tagged book review, classics, contemporary, contemporary fiction, debut, emotional weight, fiction, lens, lonely, narrator, new york city, novel, perspective, postmodernism, reading, trust, urban space
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Glaciers
Glaciers is a novel by Alexis M. Smith, © Tin House Books 2012
Posted in Book Review
Tagged book review, books, contemporary fiction, debut, emotional weight, fiction, global warming, iraq war, love, novel, portland
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Stutter
Stutter is a collection of poems by William Billiter, © University of Georgia Press 2011 If once a week just isn’t enough Brave Little Books for you, follow me on Facebook and Twitter where I’ll be updating you with brief … Continue reading
Posted in Book Review
Tagged book review, boredom, contemporary poetry, debut, free verse, pain, poetry, violence
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Bed
Bed is a novel by David Whitehouse, © Scribner 2011.
Posted in Book Review
Tagged bed, book review, brother, contemporary fiction, debut, emotional weight, fiction, inventor, lonely, love, obesity, pain, suicide, weight
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