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Emily Bobrow Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Weekend Confidential @WSJ; formerly @TheEconomist; bemused observer

15 books
Book Cover for: My Nemesis, Charmaine Craig

My Nemesis

Charmaine Craig
Emily BobrowEmily Bobrow

Really enjoyed Charmaine Craig's psychologically taut new novel "My Nemesis" so wrote about it for @TheEconomist @groveatlantic https://t.co/dVYlbayLuu https://t.co/e4rOTLyhF1

Paperback, 2024

$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Where Reasons End: Where Reasons End: A Novel, Yiyun Li

Where Reasons End: Where Reasons End: A Novel

Yiyun Li
Emily BobrowEmily Bobrow

Like an alchemist, Yiyun Li has turned a tragic personal loss into a profound work of art. Where Reasons End is a beautiful book @penguinrandom https://t.co/OkrM3nQSQ4

Paperback, 2021

$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The New Me, Halle Butler

The New Me

Halle Butler
Emily BobrowEmily Bobrow

@lindsaygoldwert @bodilyofferings Yes to iris owens! Also all moshfegh and The New Me by Halle Butler, which no one talks about but I found thrilling

Paperback, 2019

$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Darker the Night, the Brighter the Stars: A Neuropsychologist's Odyssey Through Consciousness, Paul Broks

The Darker the Night, the Brighter the Stars: A Neuropsychologist's Odyssey Through Consciousness

Paul Broks
Emily BobrowEmily Bobrow

I was pretty dazzled by “The Darker the Night, the Brighter the Stars,” @PaulBroks1’s remarkable book about life, death and the profound mysteries of consciousness https://t.co/5Yynt762yC

Hardcover, 2018

$27.00$13.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Cement Garden, Ian McEwan

The Cement Garden

Ian McEwan
Emily BobrowEmily Bobrow

The problem with Ian McEwan's round-up of the best five books about children is that it doesn't include his "The Cement Garden", which is brilliant https://t.co/ZT6PB844uU

Paperback, 2014

$15.95$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Power Notebooks, Katie Roiphe

The Power Notebooks

Katie Roiphe
Emily BobrowEmily Bobrow

It is often fascinating to witness Katie Roiphe reckon with her personal contradictions in "The Power Notebooks"; her ambivalence here feels more authentic, and therefore more persuasive, than her polemics. My review @WSJ https://t.co/27ua8dVQ42

Paperback, 2021

$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Oak Flat: A Fight for Sacred Land in the American West, Lauren Redniss

Oak Flat: A Fight for Sacred Land in the American West

Lauren Redniss
Emily BobrowEmily Bobrow

Lauren Redniss's work is hard to classify, but consistently remarkable. "Oak Flat" is a beautiful, moving book; I review it here, with Robert Macfarlane's "Ghostways" @WSJ https://t.co/LzAnmAntU9

Paperback, 2021

$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Trust (Pulitzer Prize Winner), Hernan Diaz

Trust (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

Hernan Diaz
Emily BobrowEmily Bobrow

Had some thoughts about Trust, Hernan Diaz’s matryoshka doll of a novel @TheEconomist https://t.co/hJKpvxXHLD

Paperback, 2023

$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Farm, Joanne Ramos

The Farm

Joanne Ramos
Emily BobrowEmily Bobrow

I was gripped by Joanne Ramos's unnervingly plausible debut novel "The Farm", in which mostly destitute immigrants incubate the babies of the 1% @TheEconomist @BloomsburyBooks @penguinrandom https://t.co/8K1zIfs5TH

Paperback, 2020

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Limits, Nell Freudenberger

The Limits

Nell Freudenberger
Emily BobrowEmily Bobrow

The Limits is insightful about the ways the Covid crisis applied pressure to unsteady joints, as if testing which bonds would last... As the book’s perspective shifts from character to character, Ms. Freudenberger convincingly inhabits an array of voices.

Hardcover, 2024

$29.00$14.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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