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Favorite Reads of 2024
A bevy of good wishes for this holiday season, peaches. Here are my favorite reads of the year, starting with the 2024 releases. James by Percival Everett. The story of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, told from the perspective of Jim. The best journey story I’ve ever read. Glorious Exploits by Ferdia Lennon. A pair Continue reading
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Best Physical Reading Experiences
We all have our favorite typefaces for the reader experience, and we know which sorts of cover illustrations will grab our attention. Some books, however, present design thoughtful and immersive enough to add to the total reading experience. Here are my recommendations. Continue reading
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Five-Star Summer Reading
Those of us who read a great deal have all hit stretches when it seems like every book we pick up is not to our tastes, for one reason or another. I, on the other hand, have been enjoying a month of excellent books. In no particular order: When We Cease to Understand the World Continue reading
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Best Books of the Century: The Me Edition
Has everybody seen the recent NYTimes feature in which they compiled the votes of 500+ writers and other publishing luminaries and created a list of the 100 best books of the twenty-first century so far? They also offered a ballot where readers can supply their own 10 titles. Here are mine! I assume by the Continue reading
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Favorite Reading of 2023
As a reader, books carried me through a brutally hot and interminable summer and offered a much-needed escape. Here are my favorites from those released in 2023. Continue reading
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The widening window
Happy fall season, readers! In the grand tradition of explaining why one hasn’t posted in several weeks, I offer up that I have been devoting every spare minute to finishing the draft of my next novel, a glowing ember of a story about what it means to choose joy in the face of evil. Finally, Continue reading
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What You Do with Erosion
There’s a utilities easement not far away from where we live. When we first moved there, it was a decent sort of meadow, full of fire ant hills and nasty burs and waist-high thorny bushes and other things that want to stab you. Still, all naturally occurring parts of the Central Texas ecosystem. Now, I Continue reading
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Favorite Reading of 2022
Some favorites released in 2022: Sea of Tranquility. Multiple timelines, a sci-fi edge, well-drawn characters. A story about plagues and how much we can affect the world around us. My favorite of the year. Joan Is Okay. A touching and hilarious voice, an endearing narrator, and an engrossing story of New York in 2020, COVID Continue reading
Elizabeth Cobbe 