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Amber Sparks Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.

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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

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Book Cover for: The Shortest Day, Susan Cooper

The Shortest Day

Susan Cooper
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Tonight we’re reading Susan Cooper’s and Carson Ellis’s The Shortest Day https://t.co/lrouCY3rH9

Hardcover, 2019

$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Hans Andersen's Christmas tales: Fairy Tales: The Snow Queen; The Fir-Tree; The Snow Man; The Little Match Girl, Hans Andersen

Hans Andersen's Christmas tales: Fairy Tales: The Snow Queen; The Fir-Tree; The Snow Man; The Little Match Girl

Hans Andersen
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@JessicaGilkison Sure! I’d start at the holy grail, a solid collection of the Grimms. Also Hans Christian Andersen. There are some really beautiful collection that feature Holden Age illustration. Calvino did a great Italian Fairy Tales collection - Pantheon has a great African fairy tales

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Book Cover for: Esmond and Ilia: An Unreliable Memoir, Marina Warner

Esmond and Ilia: An Unreliable Memoir

Marina Warner
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@legroff Happy birthday, Lauren! If you haven’t read Marina Warner’s Esmond and Ilia yet, I think you would love it.

Paperback, 2022

$19.95$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Stoner, John Williams

Stoner

John Williams
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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.

Paperback, 2006

$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: How to Read Now: Essays, Elaine Castillo

How to Read Now: Essays

Elaine Castillo
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HOW TO READ NOW by Elaine Castillo is brilliant, and I keep thinking about this - The Secret Garden, for example, means much to me, but rereading it, how can I not read it now with the classism and colonialism and imperialism in mind? To ignore it would be such a shallow reading. https://t.co/NDGIcYBBh8

Hardcover, 2022

$28.00$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Corner That Held Them, Sylvia Townsend Warner

The Corner That Held Them

Sylvia Townsend Warner
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This book seriously saved my LIFE in 2020

Paperback, 2019

$18.95$9.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Harriet the Spy, Louise Fitzhugh

Harriet the Spy

Louise Fitzhugh
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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

Paperback, 2001

$8.99$4.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Body Scout, Lincoln Michel

The Body Scout

Lincoln Michel
Amber SparksAmber Sparks

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)

Paperback, 2022

$17.99$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Princess in Black, Shannon Hale

The Princess in Black

Shannon Hale
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@j_zimms We loved the Princess in Black books! Awesome to know Shannon Hale is so cool.

Paperback, 2015

$6.99$3.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times, Katherine May

Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times

Katherine May
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Okay so last year, Wintering by Katherine May got me through the darkest days of winter. Any suggestions for this year?

Hardcover, 2020

$25.00$12.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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