Amber Sparks Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Reading Megan O’Rourke’s excellent book The Invisible Kingdom, and she gets at something really important about the current anti-vaxx, natural healing movement: the idea that if you have enough willpower, you can cure yourself, is actually a very Western idea. https://t.co/AZ3mvRugit

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I agree completely - spring has a bitter, hopeful clarity that’s destined to smudge and fade into the haze of summer - a temporary sharpness that’s perfect for this marvelous book.

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Or how everyone went nuts over Olga Ravn’s The Employees, and justifiably, it was a brilliant epic in a very small space, and that book would only ever be published on a VERY small press in the US, no big 5 publisher would touch it with a ten foot pole

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The kid is reading Harriet the Spy, and I am once again reminded of my hero and role model, Mrs Plumber https://t.co/5gx3bQpZPe

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Anyway it’s fine, I’m just gonna be Alice Munro finding time despite everything to write my little stories https://t.co/HVj28Nnd2D

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This new book of @elizmccracken‘s is so good and so full of heart and so self aware and so funny and so wise and so meta but in the warmest way, like a friend telling you things over tea

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Just sharing that if you are looking for a book for your small reader, this book is so magical and perfect and gorgeously illustrated and my daughter and I are kind of obsessed with it

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Loved this book - so weird and good, like all of Lincoln’s writing! Get it for summer reading (not kidding, it would be an excellent beach read)

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it is the singular sense of originality that makes reading Carson’s books such a pleasure, and Wrong Norma follows that formula—or that lack of formula…Despite her assertions, nothing here feels wrong—every poem, every essay, every story feels intentional and new and right.

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And in that way, Ravn has created a truly unique project which is not so much a story as it is an accumulation…it is the documentation of the mother/art monster problem, a problem that in Ravn’s telling, is as much about addition as it is subtraction.