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Carla’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Carla’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Carla Sarett
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Freedom to imagine anything.
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Crazy Lovebirds
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2013
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Strange Courtships: Nine Romantic Stories
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2012
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The Looking Glass
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2021
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A Closet Feminist
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She Has Visions
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Woman on the Run
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Spooky & Kooky Tales
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The Art Collection; Three Short Stories
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Love Hurts! 21 Humorous Stories
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Any Excuse for a Party
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My Family Was Like a Russian Novel: poem— out from Plan B
Excited to announce my new poetry chapbook is out from Plan B Press. The book has been shortlisted in several competitions. These poems emerged from my re-reading of the novels of Dostoyevsky during the lockdown— and reognizing so many of the characters in my own family. (“The Idiot” was my dad’s favorite novel…so it figures.)
Thanks so much to the editors of Evening Street Street Review, N Read more of this blog post »
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| Read this in one morning….a stunning prose poem of a novel about grief, identity and illness. The zombie imagery is truly imaginative and often funny. | |
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"My USA today review.
***** By my count I've now reviewed around 50 books for USA TODAY. I've never given any of them four stars until today: to A Spool of Blue Thread, the masterful 20th novel by Anne Tyler. What makes it so good? Its subject is her mos" Read more of this review » |
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| As always with Tyler, readable but…a woman with two sons who barely speak to her finds “meaning” caring for her son’s ex-lover. | |
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| Really superb collection from Richie Hofmann who seems to have grown leaps and bounds in the past years. The short poems in particular, wow. | |
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“There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.”
― The Song of the Lark
― The Song of the Lark
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Carla,I wonder if you'd be interested in joining The Completists Club? I have a discussion thread for Muriel Spark there. You seem to be a Spark Completist ;-)
Here it is, in case of interest:
http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/1...
