BDM 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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Beyond Black
Hilary Mantel
hilary mantel's beyond black / every day is mother's day both sort of do this, but it's more like "the real psychic people think is fake"
Paperback, 2006
$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Lightning Rods
Helen DeWitt
@BenjaminDueholm @phil_christman yeah i think there are some people for whom sex in isolation provides benefits but if you imagine something like the helen dewitt lightning rods scenario where you go have sex with anonymous bottom halves i think it wouldn't really address feelings of loneliness or worthlessness
Paperback, 2012
$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Attic
Katherine Dunn
killed many bugs this morning. most with the house of god, some with katherine dunn's novel attic, one with a guide to christian ethics. kind of want to make the last one the official bug killing book but it is not actually mine
Paperback, 2017
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Call Us What We Carry: Poems
Amanda Gorman
amanda gorman's apparent and touching sincerity of commitment to poetry being important weighed against the quality of her actual poems… that's the human condition https://t.co/KZjdUxDfJP https://t.co/noOBd6BWW3
Hardcover, 2021
$24.99$12.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
Jenny Odell
whenever i see anything by jenny odell my first thought is: why would i want this person to teach me how to do nothing… i do so much more nothing than she does https://t.co/uBxH8VkAh8
Hardcover, 2019
$29.99$14.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Birnam Wood
Eleanor Catton
for @NewYorker I reviewed Eleanor Catton's new novel, Birnam Wood: https://t.co/p9gv3Siqq0
Paperback, 2024
$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Mothercare: On Obligation, Love, Death, and Ambivalence
Lynne Tillman
@TheYungPrtndr i really had a great experience with almost everybody this year and then this morning i read lynne tillman's mothercare and i was like "ah, right,,,"
Hardcover, 2022
$23.00$11.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Every Day Is Mother's Day
Hilary Mantel
hilary mantel's beyond black / every day is mother's day both sort of do this, but it's more like "the real psychic people think is fake"
Paperback, 2010
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy
@_veery @BrandyLJensen when your husband leo tolstoy has you copy out nine separate drafts of anna karenina <<<<<<
Paperback, 2016
$11.60$5.80 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Bell
Iris Murdoch
rereading Iris Murdoch's The Bell because some friends are reading it, and while it was the first Murdoch novel I ever read I didn't really remember it that well. anyway it's good. young up and comer Iris Murdoch one to watch etc
Paperback, 2001
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