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The main narrator is a child, Swiv, who lives with her exasperating, emotionally volatile mother and her exasperating decrepit grandmother- and this grandmother has a very BIG personality and also a lot of wisdom. Luckily, Swiv is very funny, and especially funny when she’s exasperated. So there’s a lot of humor and a lot of wisdom here. It’s a book about women helping each other and women escaping patriarchy together, and it might be corny, but it’s also a book about love, which brings with it a zillion complications, but is still worth it.The main narrator is a child, Swiv, who lives with her exasperating, emotionally volatile mother and her exasperating decrepit grandmother- and this grandmother has a very BIG personality and also a lot of wisdom. Luckily, Swiv is very funny, and…
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Added Aug 08, 2022
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This novel re-imagines the true story of research into dolphins' language abilities that was conducted in the mid-1960s. This author does an amazing job of creating rich, developed animal characters, and I am so there for it. These dolphins!
Added Feb 13, 2022
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A woman from a rich and toxic family is going on a long dreamed of vacation with her much less rich husband. Then her family slithers in. I can't stop thinking about this novel. I love a book with a delicately teased out moral quandary, especially if it also looks at class in a nuanced way.A woman from a rich and toxic family is going on a long dreamed of vacation with her much less rich husband. Then her family slithers in. I can't stop thinking about this novel. I love a book with a delicately teased out moral quandary, especially…
Added Feb 13, 2022
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I couldn’t have predicted that I would be utterly fascinated by a novel set in a 1917 influenza maternity ward, one that shows a few days of the granular medical work that takes place there, but here we are. I LOVED this book. There were rich characters I cared about, the writing was lovely, and this spoke to our current moment, both in terms of the pandemic and of the injustice in the world.I couldn’t have predicted that I would be utterly fascinated by a novel set in a 1917 influenza maternity ward, one that shows a few days of the granular medical work that takes place there, but here we are. I LOVED this book. There were rich…
Added Oct 30, 2016
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Like a hot knife through butter I read this book. It helped that it was an absolutely excellent audiobook production with four different readers, all of them quite good and very different from each other.
Two couples, one of them with a 10-year-old child in tow, all of them with secrets, decided it would be fun to vacation together in Italy. Something really bad goes down, and you know it's coming, but you don't know what it is. The character development is excellent. One of the women, Taylor, is an absolute pleasure to hate ("I only stay in 5-star hotels. Why would I fly hundreds of miles away from home to sleep in sheets with a low thread count?"). She's also an insanely over-involved mother and has contempt for everyone who isn't. One of them, Michael, is a self-involved writer who is having an affair. I eventually hated him, too. Oh, and the book is set in Italy, the travel destination I dream most of, and one of the characters is a restaurateur, so there are nice descriptions of wine, cheese, salami, etc.
This is one of those audiobooks that made my walks longer and my house cleaner while I was listening to it.Like a hot knife through butter I read this book. It helped that it was an absolutely excellent audiobook production with four different readers, all of them quite good and very different from each other.
Two couples, one of them with a…
To the Bright Edge of the WorldTo the Bright Edge of the World, BookA Novel
by Ivey, EowynBook - 2016Book, 2016
Added Sep 12, 2016
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This is one of the best books I’ve read this year. I’m a little heartbroken that I’ve finished it.
I loved the wild Alaskan setting in this novel about explorers in the 1880s, the threads of magical realism, and the deep consideration of the place and its history.This is one of the best books I’ve read this year. I’m a little heartbroken that I’ve finished it.
I loved the wild Alaskan setting in this novel about explorers in the 1880s, the threads of magical realism, and the deep consideration of the place…
Added Jul 01, 2015
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What If?What If?, BookSerious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
by Munroe, RandallBook - 2014Book, 2014
Added Jun 01, 2015
Growing PatternsGrowing Patterns, BookFibonacci Numbers in Nature
by Campbell, Sarah C.Book - 2010Book, 2010
Added Jun 01, 2015
Where Do Presidents Come From?Where Do Presidents Come From?, Graphic NovelAnd Other Presidential Stuff of Super Great Importance
by Townsend, Michael (Michael Jay)Graphic Novel - 2012Graphic Novel, 2012
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A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do AgainA Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, BookEssays and Arguments
by Wallace, David FosterBook - 1998Book, 1998
Added Jun 01, 2015
Single, Carefree, MellowSingle, Carefree, Mellow, BookStories
by Heiny, KatherineBook - 2015Book, 2015
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The Signature of All ThingsThe Signature of All Things, Book
by Gilbert, ElizabethBook - 2013Book, 2013
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Before SunriseBefore Sunrise, DVD
DVD - 1999DVD, 1999
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Dorothy Must DieDorothy Must Die, UnknownDorothy Must Die Series, Book 1
by Paige, D. M.Unknown - 2014Unknown, 2014
Added Apr 20, 2015
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