![]() ![]() The result is a surprising, perceptive, and evocative collection of stories that is also a moving exploration of our human condition. And members of The Five-Carat Soul Bottom Bone Band recount stories from their own messy and hilarious lives.Īs McBride did in his National Book award-winning The Good Lord Bird and his best-selling The Color of Water, he writes with humor and insight about how we struggle to understand who we are in a world we don’t fully comprehend. ![]() An American president draws inspiration from a conversation he overhears in a stable. Five strangers find themselves thrown together and face unexpected judgment. Lee now sits in the home of a Black minister in Queens. Riding past a graveyard one day, she looked over and remarked, That’s Florida Forever., Annie’s Pa was a hero to me. They’re all dead now, or in Florida, which in her mind is the same as being dead. An antiques dealer discovers that a legendary toy commissioned by Civil War General Robert E. 246 quotes from James McBride: It doesn’t matter. ![]() McBride explores the ways we learn from the world and the people around us. They’re funny and poignant, insightful and unpredictable, imaginative and authentic - all told with McBride’s unrivaled storytelling skill and meticulous eye for character and detail. The stories in Five-Carat Soul - none of them ever published before - spring from the place where identity, humanity, and history converge. From the New York Times best-selling author of The Good Lord Bird, winner of the 2013 National Book Award for Fiction, Deacon King Kong, and Kill 'Em and Leave, a James Brown biography. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Every office is a family of sorts, and the Chicago ad agency depicted in Joshua Ferris's exuberantly acclaimed first novel is family at its best and worst, coping with a business downturn in the time-honored way: through gossip, elaborate pranks, and increasingly frequent coffee breaks. No one knows us in quite the same way as the men and women who sit beside us in department meetings and crowd the office refrigerator with their labeled yogurts. that rare comedy that feels blisteringly urgent." (TIME) Winner of the Hemingway Foundation / PEN Award, this debut novel is "as funny as The Office, as sad as an abandoned stapler. ![]() ![]() ![]() Overall, totally worth my credit, but I will not make the mistake of listening to any more of her books with my car windows down again! Hi Kids! I always feel like the best narrators are the ones you don't notice, and so I guess she did a great job, because she only made the story better. Jill Redfield did a great job of bringing across the main characters voice, and reading the steamier bits without distracting from what was going on. Most of the time this was still fairly amusing, but sometimes I just really wanted them to shut up. The only thing I didn't like about the book was that some of the secondary characters veered pretty far into "stick figures with a schtick" territory. ![]() There were also quite a few very funny lines and quips. Not true of this story! There was enough interesting plot and non relationship tension to make this book a book I would have wanted to read even if it hadn't been for the INCREDIBLY steamy scenes between the two leads. Usually books like this one, that are beginning to redefine both paranormal fantasy and the bodice ripper genre, are written so that I just want them to be over with so I can enjoy the good bits and stop cringing in between. ![]() This is not the first time I've looked over at my partner in the middle of a book and declared "This is Porn.", but this is probably the best time. ![]() ![]() ![]() The process of falling in love at first sight is as final as it is swift in such a case, but the growth of true friendship may be a lifelong affair. When one really knows a village like this and its surroundings, it is like becoming acquainted with a single person. I had never heard of Sarah Orne Jewett and wasnt looking forward to spending my time reading anything that strayed too far from Fantasy, Adventure, Action, and Science Fiction. ![]() Similar to Jewetts other works, The Country of the Pointed Firs delivers a slice of New England. It is easy to see the influence that Sarah Orne Jewett had on Willa Cather in this short novel that so distinctly captures the atmosphere of a special time. ![]() These houses made the most of their seaward view, and there was a gayety and determined floweriness in their bits of garden ground the small-paned high windows in the peaks of their steep gables were like knowing eyes that watched the harbor and the far sea-line beyond, or looked northward all along the shore and its background of spruces and balsam firs. I first read 'The Country of the Pointed Firs' in college as part of my American Literature class. Sarah Orne Jewett (Author) Mint Editions (Contributor). Perhaps it was the simple fact of acquaintance with that neighborhood which made it so attaching, and gave such interest to the rocky shore and dark woods, and the few houses which seemed to be securely wedged and tree-nailed in among the ledges by the Landing. THERE WAS SOMETHING about the coast town of Dunnet which made it seem more attractive than other maritime villages of eastern Maine. ![]() |