Lea Chambers
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April 2020
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My Inside Voice: Poems
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My Inside Voice: Poems
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| The River Has Roots is a short(er) story, told with a fable-like tone. Symbols and imagery send the reader outside of any former time they might imagine, and into the Modal Lands, the Refrain and places that grow out of places—all of it steeped in ri ...more | |
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Robin Wall Kimmerer’s book Gathering Moss is an enthusiastic science-adventure account that warms readers up to this intriguing green plant. The book is a sequenced collection of essays on moss. They are short and each one brings something new and fas ...more |
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What is the nature of space for humans. Samantha Harvey’s novel, Orbital, transports readers into Day 88 of a 9-month mission rotating around the earth. The six people aboard the spacecraft are anchored to their mother planet’s Coordinated Universal ...more |
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| Wild Dark Shore is a story that explores the final habitable days on a remote island that is succumbing to rising ocean levels. A seed vault for the planet is at risk on Shearwater Island and there is an unsettling lack of communication as to what ha ...more | |
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Allegra Goodman’s historical fiction, Isola, takes place in the mid-1500s. The story follows a young Marguerite de la Rocque, orphaned at age three and ward of Jean-François de la Rocque de Roberval. Marguerite’s journey articulates the vulnerability ...more |
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Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi is a book of ephemeral nature. It was a breeze of abstraction, gentle and bitter. It was an art. It was repetitive and concrete, it was inside and outside. It was old and new. It was so many things. It was definitely a captiv ...more |
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The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue is a story spanning centuries, starting with a young woman who accidentally awakens a deal she cannot undo. The time and geography were fun to try to keep up with, and so was following the trail of discovery that had ...more |
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| The future of ours has been imagined, satirized and caricaturized in Lavanya Lakshminarayan’s book, The Ten Percent Thief. Society is strictly hierarchical and calculated, and biased. The class and geopolitical tension that carries this story feels r ...more | |
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Season of the Swamp, by Yuri Herrera, is a historical fiction novel set in New Orleans, from 1853 to 1855. It is here that Benito Juárez García undergoes a political metamorphosis that Herrera was compelled to explore. This book reads a bit like an ex ...more |
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Country Music is a poetic speaker for the rural heart that finds itself in modern times as an adult in a city. The rural landscape is slipping away but not fast enough and—at the same time—too fast. Without the speaker’s immersion in story, existence ...more |
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“There's no doubt in my mind that I have found out how to begin (at 40) to say something in my own voice; & that interests me so that I feel I can go ahead without praise.' (26 July 1922)”
― The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume Two: 1920-1924
― The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume Two: 1920-1924















