jackie ess Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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The Corrections
Jonathan FranzenI know all about Christmas because I read Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections this fall during a hurricane. Had no power but I had the Fran-man. Really like that guy
Paperback, 2021
$20.00Member price:$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Charmides: in large print
Platothat "advantage" in other words, is sophrosyne [σωφροσύνη], sometimes translated as "temperance" and is seriously problematized in Plato's Charmides
Hardcover, 2022
$59.90Member price:$34.90 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
Darryl
Jackie EssYou don’t have to be Italian to read Darryl. But it helps!
Paperback, 2021
$16.95Member price:$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Odile
Raymond QueneauJCO correct as usual. but I think we are due for a revival of pre-Oulipo Raymond Queneau any day. Odile was a great little novel https://t.co/BqqwOZmEQu
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Middlemarch
George Eliotthinking about how great middlemarch actually was, why didn't I read more george eliot? what have I been doing?
Paperback, 2019
$10.95Member price:$5.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Flight of Icarus: Novel
Raymond QueneauJCO correct as usual. but I think we are due for a revival of pre-Oulipo Raymond Queneau any day. Odile was a great little novel https://t.co/BqqwOZmEQu
Paperback, 1973
$14.95Member price:$7.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book