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Alison’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Alison’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
Alison Kinney’s Followers (37)
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Alison Kinney
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April 2007
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Hood
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2016
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Avidly Reads Opera
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United States of Rejection: A Story of Love, Hate, and Hope (Crux: The Georgia Series in Literary Nonfiction)
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| Latest in #BookJoy: Rachel León's debut novel, HOW WE SEE THE GRAY, is a warm, empathetic community drama, a multi-perspective narrative sharing the stories of overlapping groups in Rockford, IL, centered around children and adults in the foster care ...more | |
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| In these times, as I teach writing in an institution being deliberately broken by a foul and narrow-minded administration, in a week when so many of my colleagues and coworkers lost their jobs, I found Mesle's REASONS & FEELINGS: WRITING FOR THE HUMA ...more | |
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| This winter I read Denfeld's THE CHILD FINDER and THE BUTTERFLY GIRL, each of them practically overnight, because I needed to read books that were rapturously absorbing and yet comforting at the same time. You MIGHT NOT THINK, given the grimness of t ...more | |
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| This winter I read Denfeld's THE CHILD FINDER and THE BUTTERFLY GIRL, each of them practically overnight, because I needed to read books that were rapturously absorbing and yet comforting at the same time. You MIGHT NOT THINK, given the grimness of t ...more | |
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| This winter I read Denfeld's THE CHILD FINDER and THE BUTTERFLY GIRL, each of them practically overnight, because I needed to read books that were rapturously absorbing and yet comforting at the same time. You MIGHT NOT THINK, given the grimness of t ...more | |
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| EPIC AND LOVELY is a wondrous phantasmagoria of Southern California, baking, writing, crooning, road trips, cults, parents and daughters, rotten irresistible lovers, disability, death, and living forever in a day. Every sentence and paragraph is gorg ...more | |
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| Latest in BOOK JOY: I said that I needed to read more books about wedding planning, but didn't realize that was one of the themes of Xochitl Gonzalez's OLGA DIES DREAMING! It's a dissection of so many fairy tale narratives, starting with childhood lo ...more | |
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| I highlighted so many sections in River Selby's HOTSHOT, a memoir and expose of wildfire firefighting, from the perspectives of a person blasted by fire, smoke, misogyny, harassment, and trauma. Readers might be drawn to any number of aspects of the ...more | |
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| I thought the writing in Raven Leilani's LUSTER was great, razor sharp and maximalist at the same time. I loved the passages about Olive Garden and crying; all the men at work the narrator had slept with; the Art Department (hahaha); the amazing fina ...more | |
