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Papercuts Jamaica Plain Boston

Very excited to see the arrival of Papercuts Bookstore on South Street in the neighborhood of Jamaica Plain, Boston! Papercuts has actually been in the area for a few years, but on South Street they have a bigger store on a main street. After many years of bookstores closing, we are seeing a small rennaisance of indy stores, and that's great news! #PapercutsJP

Papercuts Boston!

Very excited to see the arrival of Papercuts Bookstore on South Street in the neighborhood of Jamaica Plain, Boston! Papercuts has actually been in the area for a few years, but on South Street they have a bigger store on a main street. After many years of bookstores closing, we are seeing a small rennaisance of small, indy stores, and that's great news!

2020 Reading- A Gentleman in Moscow

#2020reading excited to be delving into Amor Towles excellent novel, A Gentleman in Moscow, a novel of identity that delves into the story a royal count exiled for years to a posh Moscow hotel. Towles’ writing is charming and brilliant.


A Gentleman in Moscow

2020 reading- A Gentleman in Moscow

#2020reading excited to be delving into Amor Towles excellent novel, A Gentleman in Moscow, a novel of identity that delves into the story a royal count exiled for years to a posh Moscow hotel. Towles’ writing is charming and brilliant.

#2019Reading Hearts in Atlantis

#2019reading Another book that surprised me in 2019 was Stephen King's Hearts in Atlantis. I expected this to be a supernatural novel with elements of horror, and the first half of the book was exactly that, but- strangely- the second half of the book was a series of interconnected short stories that looped back to the first of the book. In fact, Hearts in Atlantis was not so much a novel as a novella with a series of interconnected short stories. Another surprise was there was actually very little supernatural or horror content. In fact, the book was more a meditation on young love, the 1960's, and the collapse of a certain American way of life in the wake of Vietnam. This was perhaps the most surprising element, to see King veer away from his usual plot-heavy writing and get more into literary writing of the kind you might see in a New Yorker short story.

2019 reading: Hearts in Atlantis

#2019reading Another book that surprised me in 2019 was Stephen King's "Hearts in Atlantis". I expected this to be a supernatural novel with elements of horror, and the first half of the book was exactly that, but- strangely- the second half of the book was a series of interconnected short stories that looped back to the first of the book. In fact, Hearts in Atlantis was not so much a novel as a novella with a series of interconnected short stories. Another surprise was there was actually very little supernatural or horror content. In fact, the book was more a meditation on young love, the 1960's, and the collapse of a certain American way of life in the wake of Vietnam. This was perhaps the most surprising element, to see King veer away from his usual plot-heavy writing and get more into literary writing of the kind you might see in a New Yorker short story.

2019 Reading: Beartown by Fredrik Backman

#2019reading One surprising read for 2019 was Beartown, by Fredrik Backman. This is a story of a depressed town in rural Sweden that (perhaps unadvisedly) pins its hopes on its youth hockey team. Beartown was more engaging than I would have imagined. I tend not to pick up sports-related novels, but this was really a story of a whole town told through the lens of hockey, and it was at times engaging, sad, furious, and funny with a cast of well-rounded characters. Beartown touches on economics, jobs, immigration, and women's rights in a thoughtful way.