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The Tiger's Wife (Hardcover)

By Tea Obreht
$22.50
ISBN-13: 9780385343831
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Published: Random House, 3/2011
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I have just started reading this, so can't say too too much about it. All I know is that I have been in a reading slump lately and I was pretty much instantly enthralled. The writing is evocative, and the story a mix of the present, her memory, her grandfather's stories and her grief as she tries to figure out how her grandfather died. Really good so far.

But don't take my word for it. See below:

“Ingeniously, Obreht juxtaposes [her protagonist’s] matter-of-fact narration with contemporary folk tales that are as simple, enthralling, and sometimes brutal as fables by Kipling or Dinesen…Filled with astonishing immediacy and presence, fleshed out with detail that seems firsthand, The Tiger’s Wife is all the more remarkable for being a product not of observation but imagination….Arrestingly, Obreht shows that you don’t have to go back centuries to find history transformed into myth; the process can occur within a lifetime is a gifted observer is on hand to record it.”
 – Liesl Schillinger, The New York Times Book Review, cover review

Italian Shoes (Paperback)

By Henning Mankell
$13.50
ISBN-13: 9780307472243
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Published: Vintage, 10/2010
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I am addicted to Mankell's Kurt Wallander mysteries (or I was until the last one) but had never read anything else by him. This is a beautiful book, surprising and meditative and lovely. It almost makes up for his last Wallander. No, I'm wrong, nothing can make up for that.

The Voyage of the Narwhal (Paperback)

By Andrea Barrett
$13.46
ISBN-13: 9780393319507
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company, 9/1999
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I read this ages ago on the recommendation of a faithful customer to the bookshop. I remember parts of it but am finding it hard to describe it out loud. The images from the book are just there in my memory. But I loved it. It was fascinating and nerdy and filled with natural science and exploration. I passed it on right away to my friend Mckenna and she loved it too. So now you have three recommendations to read this book.

Make the Bread, Buy the Butter: What You Should and Shouldn't Cook from Scratch -- Over 120 Recipes for the Best Homemade Foods (Hardcover)

By Jennifer Reese
$21.60
ISBN-13: 9781451605877
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Published: Free Press, 10/2011
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Not out yet (October, 2011) but I am reading an advance copy. Enjoyable and funny book with the idea that some things you should make, but some things are better (due to cost and hassle) to buy. I feel like she is doing the legwork for me and I get to just sit back and decide not to try to make my own butter. Not that I would have done that anyway, but you never know. I'm enjoying it.

The Tree (Paperback)

By John Fowles
$12.59
ISBN-13: 9780061997778
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Published: Ecco, 10/2010
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First published a generation ago, The Tree is a provocative meditation on the connection between the natural world and human creativity, and a powerful argument against taming the wild. It also is an insight into the childhood and mind of Fowles. And as someone who loved The Collector and The Magus, this was just a bonus to this beautiful little book.

Blood, Bones & Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef (Hardcover)

By Gabrielle Hamilton
$23.40
ISBN-13: 9781400068722
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Published: Random House, 3/2011
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I have to admit, I started to read the advance copy I was given with a mixture of trepidation and anticipation. I was worried I would be disappointed. I love the Hamiltons. They have been friends to my parents and to the bookshop for many years. But I had never met Gabrielle. Anyway, as I started reading I was immediately sucked into a somehow familiar childhood and then an unfamiliar but no less engrossing life. I loved it.

Lord Peter: A Collection of All the Lord Peter Wimsey Stories (Paperback)

By Dorothy L. Sayers
$14.40
ISBN-13: 9780060913809
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Published: William Morrow Paperbacks, 12/1986
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I am not sure how I got my hands on this when I was a kid. I just remember sitting on the dog bed that was in the corner of my room (my dog refused to use it so I commandeered it) paging through these stories again and again. Really charming and fun and true to the ideal of detective fiction. When I got older I borrowed every single Sayers book my sister had and devoured them. Dorothy Sayers is wonderful.

From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler (Paperback)

By E.L. Konigsburg, E.L. Konigsburg
$8.99
ISBN-13: 9781416949756
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Published: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 8/2007
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Who doesn't want to run away and spend the night locked in a museum, only to become embroiled in a mystery? I loved this book when I was a kid.

 

 

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