Ashland Books @ Noon January 2020 Picks

Created on April 27, 2021, 8:49 am

Last Updated April 27, 2021, 8:49 am

On the first Tuesday of every month, an intrepid group of Ashland readers meets at noon to talk about the best books they've read during the month. These are their stories. [Cue CSI Theme Music]
1) 2666
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Bill is reading this meaty novel. It sounds like it's got a lot of really deep themes.
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Rad is reading and enjoying this title. The setting is particularly fascinating. Kazakhstan is very isolated and doesn't feel like a traditionally Russian setting.
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3) gods of gotham
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Jane is reading and enjoying finding "sheroes" she didn't know existed!
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Kristin suggests this as a possible readalike for "The Lost Letters of William Woolf."
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The concept sounds a teeny bit like Ruth Ozeki's "A Tale for the Time Being" linked below. Jane read and enjoyed this tale of lost love letters and the postal detective who tried to unravel the mystery.
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This is the first in the Linda Wallheim series.
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One of Jane's favorite reads of 2019.
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One of Jane's favorite reads of 2019. See below for a link to the first book in this series.
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Claudia recently read this title about a community that is struck blind. Looking at how a community would react to a sudden mass lost of eye sight sounds fascinating.
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Claudia's favorite read of 2019.
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Kristin recently read and enjoyed this literary espionage novel featuring the origin story of Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago.
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13) Circe
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Kristin's favorite read of 2019. She also loved Paragon Hotel, see above.
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This is Carolyn's current read.
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Carolyn said that this was also one of her 2019 favorites and that she was hoping to get her lent copy back from a family member!
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Carolyn's favorite read of 2019.
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Bill read this recent memoir by Patti Smith. He enjoyed but acknowledged that it was somewhat psychedelic..."kind of like 'Fear and Loathing' without '...and then the drugs kicked in.'"
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One of Bill's favorite 2019 reads.
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One of Bill's favorite 2019 reads.
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Rad's favorite 2019 read.
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