MaryLauraPh Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

MaryLauraPh

Since I turned in my "what's in your reading pile?" bit for this G&G piece, I have started + finished @AnnabelMonaghan's NORA GOES OFF SCRIPT, and I am pleased to say it was every bit as delightful as anticipated. (Happy to see BOMB SHELTER here too!) ❤️ https://gardenandgun.com/articles/ggs-summer-reading-list/?fbclid=IwAR0z-Sf92PG9nAuERhqY9ZGNB9EWvhYH9lFNR8qKskepT3SXcf58z7edvjs

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When I blurbed THE ARC, I wrote that @ToryHenwoodHoen has the rare combination of a satirist’s eye and a romantic’s soul, and I meant it! This novel is a funny take on dating apps & algorithms, but even more––at its heart––it's about what makes us human. https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250276773/the-arc https://t.co/N8mnlNOWAJ

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I did the Ice-T dance workout from the back of the cheerios box. My review is: it’s only a couple of minutes, and it’s just an audio recording of Ice-T telling you to dance however you want. In other words — I loved it. https://t.co/Zl61mA3Ywk

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Don’t know if you can tell from Eleanor Roosevelt’s flapping ears, but it’s quite a breezy Christmas Eve here in Nashville. She and her ears and I (and everyone else on this jolly family walk) wish you and yours the merriest possible weekend. 🎄❤️ https://t.co/upzjqdx0iV

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I loved BROOD by Jackie Polzin – a book about caring for chickens that isn’t *really* about the chickens. (I, too, fixate on the animals in my world when I'm unable to control life, death, and the humans I want to save... which is always.) A small novel about big stuff. ❤️📚 https://t.co/dEoMvhOYkX

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Peter Ho Davies' A LIE SOMEONE TOLD YOU ABOUT YOURSELF: I rarely re-read, but I'm going to re-read it. A compact, shimmering jewel. God, it's good! (I was editing Bomb Shelter as I read it, and I thought, "If I can do this even *half* as well...") https://t.co/lfhgy9QReA

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“Family life to me is like the emotional on-ramp to a text, for any reader. That gives you your access into the book.” The new spot for @Rumaan's eerie, pitch-perfect LEAVE THE WORLD BEHIND starts airing on @npt8 this weekend. Read our full conversation: https://t.co/qBxfHOvxQ8

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If you loved Ask Again, Yes and the town and families @marybethkeane invented for that story, you’ll be delighted by The Half Moon (different family, same fictional place) ...Absolutely gorgeous right down to the sentence level. Congrats on another slow-burn masterpiece, Mary Beth!

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There's a cute picture book called Goodnight, Goodnight Construction Site, with illustrations of smiling cranes & bulldozers. I would like to write the dark companion volume called F*ck You Developers, with pictures of all the new tires I've had to buy after running over nails.

MaryLauraPh

Currently sitting in the very last row of a plane and taking a break from reading @pronounced_ing’s upcoming Our Missing Hearts only to say: it’s fabulous. Just started but it’s reminding me a bit of Gish Jen’s The Resisters. Thanks for keeping me company, Celeste!