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Maddymayi13

Maddymayi13

Joined December 2016

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The Great Believers | Rebecca Makkai
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Haul from this year's #BrooklynBookFestival

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Incredible exploration of addiction and recovery

rather_be_reading awesome! 👏 7y
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Thrilling and heartbreaking in equal measures, I tore through all 600 pages

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Housekeeping: A Novel | Marilynne Robinson
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"The force behind the movement of time is a mourning that will not be comforted. That is why the first event is known to be an expulsion, and the last is hoped to be a reconciliation and return. So memory pulls us forward, so prophecy is only brilliant memory—there will be a garden where all of us as one will sleep in our mother Eve, hopped in her ribs and staved by her spine."

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Sharp and horrifying while also incredibly humane and funny. I loved the original series on the Toast but this takes the concept of twisted fairy tales to a new and fascinating place.

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One of the most wrenching books I've read this year. Lidia Yuknavitch is a new favorite.

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Zapata | John Steinbeck
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Found this gem in my local used bookstore and really enjoying it so far. Steinbeck definitely did his research on Mexican history and culture, and the political themes resonate across the border with this gringa in the US

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If you're looking for the right book to read in this new age of protest, I highly recommend Sunil Yapa's YOUR HEART IS A MUSCLE THE SIZE OF A FIST. It captures the beautiful, flawed people who try to take on injustice and the chaotic connective energy of a protest in a way that lets you feel what it's like to be in the middle of the action. Plus the author writes lovely notes when he signs your book!

rather_be_reading awesome! 👏 7y
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Homegoing: A novel | Yaa Gyasi
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#MLKDay reads. Incredibly imagined story, even more so when you realize it's Gyasi's debut!

JanuarieTimewalker13 Yes!! Quite a debut!!! Just finished it now! 8y
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The Colossus of New York | Colson Whitehead
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First book of 2017; the introduction had me starry eyed on the subway.

rather_be_reading i didnt know he had other books! 7y
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When your friends have excellent taste in books 👌