Manuel Roig-Franzia Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Manuel Roig-Franzia

In @BookWorld a superb collection of short stories, “The Faraway World,” from @patricia_engel @AvidReaderPress @SimonBooks https://t.co/UxLg5BtgLn

Manuel Roig-Franzia

With each turn of the page, a feeling builds that Urrea is on his own quest, a decades-long journey to fill in the blanks of a period in his family history that his mother — struggling with undiagnosed post-traumatic stress disorder — did not want to revisit.

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Bittersweet reading a final gift Carlos Ruiz Zafón, author of the beloved novel "The Shadow of the Wind," left before his death last year from cancer at age 55. It's a collection of short stories, "The City of Mist." Classic Ruiz Zafón. @BookWorld https://wapo.st/3I6moSN

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From one, of many, readers sending me stories of books as decor: In "Portugese Irregular Verbs" by Alexander McCall Smith, a firm offers to buy the remainder of the leather-bound press run to be relabeled for decoration as "Portugese Irrigated Herbs" https://wapo.st/3My1sGp

Manuel Roig-Franzia

From one, of many, readers sending me stories of books as decor: In "Portugese Irregular Verbs" by Alexander McCall Smith, a firm offers to buy the remainder of the leather-bound press run to be relabeled for decoration as "Portugese Irrigated Herbs" https://t.co/CaMpgHUCAi

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Manuel Roig-Franzia

In print today, a final word from one of the world’s most read and beloved authors, “The Shadow of the Wind” novelist Carlos Ruiz Zafon, who died last year at age 55. @BookWorld https://wapo.st/3I6moSN

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Fascinating to think world's deadliest cyclone, a mass genocide & nuke-war threat all happened half century ago, but are mostly forgotten. I loved @Gary__Bass's briliant "The Blood Telegram." This new book visits horrors & characters of that same tragedy https://wapo.st/3OhpeqQ

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Not often we get to marry the oeuvre of @BookWorld and @WaPoFood. Rasika’s Ashok Bajaj was the key to it all. https://t.co/CaMpgHUCAi

Manuel Roig-Franzia

Interesting --> "The phrase 'legitimate political discourse' did not appear in an original draft of the resolution by top Trump ally David Bossie. It's unclear how the words entered the document as it was edited in Salt Lake City by Bossie, McDaniel and others" https://t.co/qh0pGVzOdN

Manuel Roig-Franzia

Happy pub day to @ScottHigham1 and @SariHorwitz for their powerful book, "American Cartel." It's an incredible feat of reporting & gripping writing about corporate greed & US government failures that contributed to countless avoidable opioid deaths. Bravo. https://amzn.to/3ywKtxW