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Jim Lynch
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I recently set up a little bookcase in the living room and packed it with the greatest hits of my reading life. Plucked from my basement library, these 75 novels aren’t necessarily the best I've read, but they hold the stories, the writing or the ideas that jolted or inspired me the most as a reader and a writer.
The top shelf starts with Robert Penn Warren’s “All the King’s Men.” Based on outra... Read more of this blog post »
The top shelf starts with Robert Penn Warren’s “All the King’s Men.” Based on outra... Read more of this blog post »
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The Highest Tide
— published 2005 — 17 editions |
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Border Songs
— published 2009 — 16 editions |
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Truth Like the Sun
— published 2012 — 5 editions |
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The Highest Tide
— published 2010 |
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Hoogtij
— published 2005 |
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Seekers, Sinners & Simpletons: The Spirituality Players
— published 2013 |
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Truth Like the Sun. Jim Lynch
— published 2013 |
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Grensesang
by Jim Lynch (Goodreads Author), Bodil Engen — published 2010 |
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"Hello fellow Olympia readers,
It was a nice surprise today to see NY Times reviewer Janet Maslin picked my latest novel, Truth Like the Sun, as one of...more " |
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"Wow, I feel like I'm way too late for this party. Are some of you still meeting/discussing books?
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"Thanks, Rhonda. And then there's the thrill or disappointment of rereading those books and seeing if they still feel like good old friends."
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“I hate myself pretty often" .She tilted her face back on the pillow, damning tears and attempting so smile at the same time. "Pretty fucking often”
― Jim Lynch, The Highest Tide
― Jim Lynch, The Highest Tide
“Something had snapped between us, and I had no idea how to glue it back together.”
― Jim Lynch, The Highest Tide
― Jim Lynch, The Highest Tide
“When Rachel Carson accepted the National Book Award, she said, 'if there is poetry in my book about the sea it is not because I deliberately put it there but because no one could write truthfully about the sea and leave out poetry.”
― Jim Lynch, The Highest Tide
― Jim Lynch, The Highest Tide
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