Amber Sparks Book Recommendations
Amber Sparks is an author and book critic. Your garbage mom; wrote AND I DO NOT FORGIVE YOU; HAPPY PEOPLE DON’T LIVE HERE ‘25; rep’d by @KentDWolf; I just want you to be happy, honey, ON AUGUST HIATUS
The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness
Meghan O'RourkeAmber SparksReading 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
Paperback, 2023
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first bookStoner
John WilliamsAmber SparksI 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.
Paperback, 2006
$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first bookThe Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century
Olga RavnAmber SparksOr 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
Paperback, 2023
$14.95$7.47 + Free shipping50% off your first bookHarriet the Spy
Louise FitzhughAmber SparksThe kid is reading Harriet the Spy, and I am once again reminded of my hero and role model, Mrs Plumber https://t.co/5gx3bQpZPe
Paperback, 2001
$8.99$4.49 + Free shipping50% off your first bookOpen Secrets: Stories
Alice MunroAmber SparksAnyway it’s fine, I’m just gonna be Alice Munro finding time despite everything to write my little stories https://t.co/HVj28Nnd2D
Paperback, 1995
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first bookThe Hero of This Book
Elizabeth McCrackenAmber SparksThis 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
Paperback, 2023
$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first bookMr. Tiger, Betsy, and the Blue Moon
Sally GardnerAmber SparksJust 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
Paperback, 2021
$8.99$4.49 + Free shipping50% off your first bookThe Body Scout
Lincoln MichelAmber SparksLoved 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)
Paperback, 2022
$17.99$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first bookWrong Norma
Anne CarsonAmber Sparksit 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.
Paperback, 2024
$17.95$8.98 + Free shipping50% off your first bookMy Work
Olga RavnAmber SparksAnd 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.
Paperback, 2023
$18.95$9.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book