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Jee’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Jee’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Jee Leong Koh
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Jeff Koehler's MATISSE IN MOROCCO: A JOURNEY OF LIGHT AND COLOR
A really enjoyable read. I especially appreciate the weaving of the writings of Moroccans into the fascinating story of Matisse in the country, so we get to see not only Matisse's view of the country, but also the country's view, so to speak, of Matisse. The autonomy, dignity, respect, and equality that Matisse gave to his Moroccan human subjects, such as Zorah and the Riffian, is beautifully dra
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Steep Tea
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2015
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Payday Loans
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2007
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The Pillow Book
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2012
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Equal to the Earth
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2009
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Seven Studies for a Self Portrait
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2011
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Snow at 5 PM
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The Pillow Book: English-Japanese Illustrated Edition マクラノソウシ（日本語・英語イラスト入り版）
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Connor & Seal
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2020
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Inspector Inspector
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Bite Harder: Open Letters and Close Readings
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| A really enjoyable read. I especially appreciate the weaving of the writings of Moroccans into the fascinating story of Matisse in the country, so we get to see not only Matisse's view of the country, but also the country's view, so to speak, of Mati ...more | |
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| [Full disclosure: the author, a friend, sent me a copy of her book.] These stories have angles sharp as elbows and tones dark as Victorian gothic, though they are also composed musically and set in modern America. Conceits are fleshed out into living ...more | |
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After reading this book, I cannot read this book blurb as any play but parody: "Mullen's parodies reconceive the African American's relation to the English language and Anglophone writing, through textual reproduction, recombining the genetic structur ...more |
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| Compulsively readable. Some of the links made are highly speculative, but the dots are connected in a pleasing pattern. | |
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| Honest and heartwarming essays on migrating from the Dominican Republic to the USA (Part 1) and becoming a writer (Part 2). Good introduction to the genre of personal essays and the life of a writer for ninth and tenth graders. | |
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| Pádraig Ó Tuama is a genial, acute, and personable guide to these poems about a range of outward-looking subjects. It is a good snapshot of contemporary Anglo-American verse, with a few oldies thrown in. | |
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| There are lyrical poems here, and then there are poems that are very nearly song lyrics. Both give pleasure, though arguably pleasure of different kinds. The book has keen observation, social conscience, and musical intelligence in abundance. Are the ...more | |
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| Elaine Castillo's book of essays How to Read Now features a lit bomb on its cover. By its devastating critique of Nobel prize-winner Peter Handke's fascist sympathies and beloved Californian writer Joan Didion's settler-colonialist views, the book is ...more | |
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George
Jul 19, 2009 08:47PM
I got my copy of Equal to the Earth and have had time to read it. Very impressive work. I particularly liked the Fire Island series at the end and specially the last stanza of 7. Fire Island. I guess that's what we all hope for. And the poem Floor Tiling where the “two designs coexisted.“ Each of your books has seemed to me to be a step ahead, a progression; more concentrated and therefore increasingly interesting to read. So I enjoyed Equal to the Earth very much and am waiting for the next.
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Thanks, Abha, for your kind comment on my ghazals. What is your native tongue? Abha wrote: "hi,
went to your blog and was blown away by your ghazals. first time i actually enjoyed english ghazals, usually they lack something for me, since i write them in my native tongue. try to.
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hi,went to your blog and was blown away by your ghazals. first time i actually enjoyed english ghazals, usually they lack something for me, since i write them in my native tongue. try to.
Thanks! This is helping me to understand the book better. It's our book club selection this month, and I'm trying to like it.I can't tell beyond your three stars whether you liked it or not, but perhaps it doesn't matter so much. It's a good book. It just prbably isn't for me.
