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My Favorite Recent Books for Adult Readers
I know, I know, this blog is dedicated to books written with a young-adult audience in mind. But I still read fiction intended for adults, too. Now that finals are over, I thought I’d post nightly...
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Book Recommendation #2: A Novel Narrated by a Murderer
Welcome to my second winter-break book recommendation for adults: Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger. This very black comedy is truly frightening. The protagonist, Balram Halwai, writes seven letters...
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Book Recommendation #3: A 21st-Century Odyssey
Welcome to my third winter break book recommendation for adults: Bonnie Jo Campbell’s Once Upon a River. Borrowing from the traditions of The Odyssey and Huckleberry Finn, Campbell creates a...
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Book Recommendation #4: One Day in the Post-9/11 Life of a Neurosurgeon
Welcome to my fourth winter-break book recommendation for adults: Ian McEwan’s Saturday. McEwan, the author of Atonement, explores one day in the life of a London neurosurgeon in a post-9/11 world....
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Book Recommendation #5: A Darker Portrait of Victorian Life
Welcome to my fifth winter-break book recommendation for adults: A. S. Byatt’s The Children’s Book. I’d recommend The Children’s Book to readers who love history, art, or anything Victorian, but I’d...
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Book Recommendation #6: A Victorian Seafaring Tale
Welcome to my sixth and final winter-break book recommendation for adults: Amitav Ghosh’s Sea of Poppies. I’d recommend this one to language and history lovers only. Like A.S. Byatt’s The Children’s...
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A Review of Franny Billingsley’s Chime
I can understand why Fanny Billingsley’s Chime was nominated for the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature. Billingsley takes an earnest shot at representing the lasting trauma of...
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A Review of American Born Chinese
By Yahaira Vega and Alnas Zia Portraying stereotyped characters and the loss of cultural identity through a graphic novel is a difficult literary feat, but indie graphic novelist Gene Luen Yang manages...
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A Review of Julie Otsuka’s The Buddha in the Attic
Summer’s here, and I’ll be posting occasional reviews of the books I enjoy during my “time off.” After grading stacks and stacks of papers at the semester’s end, I treated myself to reading an amazing...
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A Review of Keith Gray’s Ostrich Boys
By Tara Sweeney and Kishi Smith Bungee jump into Ostrich Boys, Keith Gray’s young adult novel about the unbreakable bond between four best friends and the lengths they will go for one another. Ross...
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