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Joel /hō•ÉL/ Garza is cofounder of #THEBOOKCHAT 📓 Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Teach @GreenhillSchool @GOAlearning. Same profile ID at the other place👖🌃. Cofounded, cohost #THEBOOKCHAT🙂📚

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Book Cover for: Stag's Leap, Sharon Olds

Stag's Leap

Sharon Olds
Joel /hō•ÉL/ Garza is cofounder of #THEBOOKCHAT 📓Joel /hō•ÉL/ Garza is cofounder of #THEBOOKCHAT 📓

@VintageAnchor Predictable answer: A Confederacy of Dunces (I know, I know) & Films? Any Vonnegut novel the Coens are willing to direct, or Kenzaburō Ōe’s A Personal Matter Series? Shirley Hazzard’s The Transit of Venus, or Sharon Olds’ Stag’s Leap, or Ellison’s Invisible Man 📚🎥🤔

Paperback, 2012

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Book Cover for: Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems, Mark Doty

Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems

Mark Doty
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@teachnext_tmb Don’t regret buying Dickinson Borges Bishop collected, for ex, but rarely need *every* poem a poet ever published. A (usually chronological) poet-curated selection works so well — Mark Doty Fire To Fire was the first bk that made me feel that

Paperback, 2009

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Book Cover for: The Overstory, Richard Powers

The Overstory

Richard Powers
Joel /hō•ÉL/ Garza is cofounder of #THEBOOKCHAT 📓Joel /hō•ÉL/ Garza is cofounder of #THEBOOKCHAT 📓

I've posted about Ezra Klein's interviews before & about Richard Powers's genius before. Now you can have them both at once Powers 2019 Pulitzer Prize-winning The Overstory... [sigh] as Klein says, if you haven’t read it, you should. It’ll change you🌳🎧 https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/28/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-richard-powers.html?smid=tw-share

Paperback, 2019

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Book Cover for: Harlem Shuffle, Colson Whitehead

Harlem Shuffle

Colson Whitehead
Joel /hō•ÉL/ Garza is cofounder of #THEBOOKCHAT 📓Joel /hō•ÉL/ Garza is cofounder of #THEBOOKCHAT 📓

Getting my reading pace & energy back to where I like it I just finished reading Colson Whitehead’s Harlem Shuffle and Yukio Mishima’s The Temple of the Golden Pavilion Both minireviews at http://bit.ly/JoelRGarza 🙂📚👊🏼

Paperback, 2022

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Book Cover for: Women in Love, Dh Lawrence

Women in Love

Dh Lawrence
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@doodlinmunkyboy I did! Jimmy Breslin The Gang That Couldn’t Shoot Straight, DH Lawrence Women in Love, Sebald The Emigrants, Solmaz Sharif Look, Crossman’s Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography & the Beastie Boys Book 🤣

Paperback, 2022

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Book Cover for: Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West, Cormac McCarthy

Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West

Cormac McCarthy
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#THEBOOKCHAT Blood Meridian moments (page 17) 🧵 I take it ye lost your way, said the hermit. No, I went right to it [said the kid] 😱🤔🤣 Join me, @Lyricalswordz, and some brave readers to discuss Cormac McCarthy’s masterpiece Sunday 9/25 8pEST https://t.co/bw3kDi0lgS

Paperback, 1992

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Book Cover for: Watership Down: The Graphic Novel, Richard Adams

Watership Down: The Graphic Novel

Richard Adams
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I’ve been able to bang through a lot of great reading these past couple of weeks—Gayl Jones Corregidora, Ida Fink A Scrap of Time, Richard Adams Watership Down, Dana Stevens Buster Keaton bio, & Geraldine Brooks People of the Book! 🙂📚👊🏽 https://t.co/DHTxmkBjg3

Paperback, 2023

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Book Cover for: In Waves, Aj Dungo

In Waves

Aj Dungo
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@thereadingzone In addition to Much Ado & Counting Descent, choice reading had a huge impact this past year, including: graphic novels AJ Dungo In Waves & Derrick Backderf Kent State, poetry by Marilyn Chin & Christian Wiman & Breakbeat anthologies, essays by Michael Chabon & Ocean Vuong 🙂📚

Paperback, 2019

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Book Cover for: The Night Watchman, Louise Erdrich

The Night Watchman

Louise Erdrich
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Update: Louise Erdrich’s The Night Watchman brings love stories, historical fiction, family drama, trauma narrative, feminist empowerment, spirit presence, political grassroots empowerment, & humor & horse romance & boxing & landscape & varieties of manhood & memory &&&&😱🤯😭

Paperback, 2021

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Book Cover for: The Town of Babylon, Alejandro Varela

The Town of Babylon

Alejandro Varela
Joel /hō•ÉL/ Garza is cofounder of #THEBOOKCHAT 📓Joel /hō•ÉL/ Garza is cofounder of #THEBOOKCHAT 📓

This break, I’m reading two books, one fiction, one nonfiction — each of which is a kind of personal archaeology 🤔📚 https://t.co/UoXerARQER https://t.co/xfbh8OZS55 https://t.co/yCjGOUBMnK

Paperback, 2024

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