noraborealis Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Few people can write childhood, with all its terror and tumult, like Roald Dahl, and he does so while making even a hopeless situation outrageously funny.

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I pulled this novel off my parents' shelf in the summer after fifth grade and was immediately enchanted with the world Carson McCullers created in 1930s Georgia — and all the lonely, longing people within it.

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O'Brien's sometimes gruesome and always devastating interconnected stories about young men in combat helped me to see my own father, a Vietnam veteran, for what he was: a traumatized man carrying the weight of a war he fought when he was just a boy.

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Americans love a rags-to-riches... But Texas native Casey Gerald, who could recount such a story, instead tells the truth about his struggles with faith, class, race, and sexual identity. His prose is witty, insightful, and razor-sharp. Not a word is wasted.

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David Sedaris... [was] the first writer to ever make me howl with laughter. In this book, he writes about his childhood and his relationships with his adult siblings. As always, the essays read like stories told by a close friend

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I knew nothing about this book before I cracked it open, and I don't want to spoil the delight for anyone else... The premise is wacky, but the writing: It's so funny and delightful and tender that even the unrealistic feels absolutely real.