For The Book Obsessed
[ad_1] First, I think we need to get Barbenheimer out of the way. I very much doubt that Scott Guild intended Plastic, his debut novel about life-sized plastic figurines and the nuclear Armageddon that threatens them, to come so close on the heels of Greta Gerwig’s and Christopher Nolan’s films. It’s a fascinating accident, though: … Read more
[ad_1] “Most literature, like life, is about how to have less and how to have more,” says Deborah Levy in Real Estate, the third volume of her “living autobiography” of her life as a writer and woman. In this latest chronicle, Levy wonders what it might mean to have more as she turns 60 and … Read more
[ad_1] The drought is getting worse. Rice farmers in the San Joaquin Valley are resorting to selling their water as an economic alternative to poor crop yields. Wildfires tear through the brush, destroying homes and displacing countless human and non-human residents. Mile-high fire clouds—what scientists call “pyrocumulonimbus”—gather in the sky and hurtle bolts of lightning … Read more
[ad_1] Gabriel Krauze wastes not a single word getting to the action in his debut. Where many novelists hold their readers’ hands in the opening pages, slowly introducing them to the narrator, the world, and the characters that inhabit it, Who They Was instead pushes them face first and mid-sentence: “And jump out the whip … Read more
[ad_1] Rating: 4.96/5 Thanks for watching! If you want me to do a part 2 make sure you press the thumbs up button!! Book Depository: http://www.bookdepository.c… Merch: www.society6.com/abookutopia Audible: audible.com/abookutopia PO Box address (NOT MY HOME ADDRESS): Sasha Alsberg PMB 114 825 Waukegan Rd. A8 Lake Forest, IL Website: www.abookutopia.com My Social Medias: Instagram: @sashaalsberg … Read more