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Kathleen’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Kathleen’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Kathleen Rooney
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…is the number of poems that we–Lisa Farver, Caro Macon Fleischer, Bri McLaughlin, Sam Nassau, Mars Palomar, Noel Perez-White, Rachel Summerfield, Shane Zimmer, and I–wrote while doing Poems While You Wait at the Chicago Artisan Market in Ravenswood at Artifact Events: Thanks to Jonathan and Lynna for having us, stay tuned to the PWYW Instagram […]
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Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk
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2017
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21 editions
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Cher Ami and Major Whittlesey
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2020
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8 editions
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From Dust to Stardust
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2023
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6 editions
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Live Nude Girl: My Life as an Object
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2009
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7 editions
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O, Democracy!
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2014
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3 editions
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Robinson Alone
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2012
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2 editions
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For You, for You I am Trilling These Songs
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2009
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5 editions
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Oneiromance
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2008
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Reading with Oprah: The Book Club that Changed America
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2005
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4 editions
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Where Are the Snows: Poems
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"This book was a wonderful “walkthrough” of the life of Lillian Boxfish, a character inspired by a real-life woman who was the highest-paid advertising executive in the 1920’s and 30’s. As this was a character-driven novel, I was happy to spend my tim"
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"This was a very sweet peek into life in Manhattan from the 1920s to the 80s as seen by our main character. Although a self proclaimed "old lady", Lillian continues to be the whip smart woman who became the highest paid woman in advertising in her hey"
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"Good at the beginning, slow in the middle, great at the end. “So many careers and fortunes are made by expecting the least and the worst of people. And yet people are rarely so disappointing. “"
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"There was a close-up on Paul McCartney's dumb-looking face on the TV. He was talking in Japanese. The dub was shitty. John Lennon and the rest of them were all so short. Were the Beatles a dwarf band?" (61). "I could probably adjust to whatever sort ...more |
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“I thought at times that poetry might be an elegant way of screaming.”
― Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk
― Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk
“If you love something, know that it will leave on a day you are far from ready.”
― Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk
― Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk
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Dean
Dec 13, 2014 10:55PM
Thank you for being my friend Kathleen :))).
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Thank you for the friends add, Kathleen. Much success and good reads to you. Have a great week.Ed Lynskey
Author, PELHAM FELL HERE
