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Gavin Broom

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Gavin Broom is a Scotsman who was transplanted into the United States in 2012. He can be found on Monday evenings at Darb’s Patio, playing trivia and sipping Laphroaig. At other times he can be found in his kitchen baking bread rolls that other people eat.

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Average rating: 4.52 · 27 ratings · 12 reviews · 4 distinct works
The Scottish Book of the Dead

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The Sky Is a Free Country

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A Documentary About Sharks

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Mayflies by Andrew O'Hagan
"it took me a long time to ger through this novel. the first part of the story, where the boys head to manchester, feels like its dragged on forever, with some small things happening here and there, but overall aimless. i felt that the author wanted t" Read more of this review »
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Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
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Anyone who's spoken to me about books in the last seven years or so, or has asked me for a recommendation during that time, will have heard me rave about Station Eleven, my introduction to Emily St John Mandel. After reading that, I quickly devoured ...more
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Branches by Adam Peter Johnson
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I asked the Twitterverse what book I should read next and the author was kind enough to suggest his own. I felt in a mood to take a chance, and I’m pretty glad I did.

The author likened Branches to Dark Matter by Blake Crouch which I read a few years
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I asked the Twitterverse what book I should read next and the author was kind enough to suggest his own. I felt in a mood to take a chance, and I’m pretty glad I did.

The author likened Branches to Dark Matter by Blake Crouch which I read a few years
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The Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley Heller
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This is just one of those books that sinks itself into your veins. Achingly beautiful prose tells the story of a woman over the course of a day at The Paper Palace, a beach house in Cape Cod, in the hours after she cheats on her husband with a childh ...more
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Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain
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I saw Roadrunner recently and during the post-movie discussion with my better half, we realized that neither of us had read Kitchen Confidential and I decided to do something about that.

It is everything it led me to believe it was. Written in the 90s
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“Look how black the sky is, the writer said. I made it that way.”
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“Hell is the absence of the people you long for.”
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“If your soul left this earth I would follow and find you.”
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“I have to return some videotapes”
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“This is not an exit.”
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