Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner - Robert Breen 📚 ★★★★☆ | Literary Fiction | Digital + Print | Own | StoryGraph | Goodreads  This is a difficult book to describe without spoiling the entire story. There are two plot lines at work: the narrator, a sev...

Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner 💙📚
I've read four Stegner novels, saving his Pulitzer for the last. This one tested my patience for 500 pages, then delivered a spectacular ending. I'm glad I stuck with it.
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Current Read:

Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion.

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Currently reading a classic of degenerate, outsider lit:

Last Exit To Brooklyn by Hubert Selby Jr

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I lived in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn when I was younger and am surprised that some of the book takes place in Bay Ridge. But excited to read about it.

Water Music By Marcia Peck

My review of Water Music by Marcia Peck is up on Medium. A 5-star novel set on Cape Cod in 1956, structured around the Beaufort wind scale as a metaphor for a family coming apart. Beautifully written.
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Did you know Booth Tarkington penned a play about marriage and societal expectations in 1921? The Intimate Strangers explored themes of love and convention in the Jazz Age, blending humor with profound social commentary. (Q131056529) #AmericanLit #RoaringTwenties #BoothTarkington

Re-re-rereading As I Lay Dying. Faulkner's description of the mule team as the Bundren family presses on despite the flood waters is brilliant, so good it gives me chills.

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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Written by Herself by Harriet Ann Jacobs- 1861

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Written by Herself by Harriet Ann Jacobs- 1861

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Taking a tour of these covers throughout 2025: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Written By Herself by
Harriet Ann Jacobs- 1861 - Two editions

Our Nig: Or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black by Harriet E. Wilson 109 pages • paperback • 1859

Our Nig: Or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black by Harriet E. Wilson 109 pages • paperback • 1859

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Taking a tour of these covers throughout 2025: Our Nig: Or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black by
Harriet E. Wilson

109 pages • 1859

I’m digging into a classic this summer - Moby Dick by Herman Melville. I don’t know if I had expectations, but I am enjoying this more than I expected to! #classic #classicliterature #moby #whitewhale... TikTok video by Planty book lover

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#ErnestHemingway was born on this day in 1899. Up until a few years ago, I was unaware that he'd worked for the #TorontoStar as a foreign correspondent in the 1920's. This entertaining 1961 #biography was published the year he died. $15. #Booksky #authors #AmericanLit #literature

Passing by Nella Larsen 182 pages • first pub 1929

Passing by Nella Larsen 182 pages • first pub 1929

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Taking a tour of these covers throughout 2025: Passing by
Nella Larsen

182 pages • first pub 1929

The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros 110 pages • first pub 1984

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Taking a tour of these covers throughout 2025: The House on Mango Street by
Sandra Cisneros

110 pages • first pub 1984 - Told in a series of vignettes – a young Latina girl growing up in Chicago

The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton 338 pages • paperback • 1905

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Taking a tour of these covers throughout 2025: The House of Mirth by
Edith Wharton

338 pages • 1905 "Lily Bart lives among the nouveaux riches of New York City"

Viet Thanh Nguyen: Most American Literature is the Literature of Empire One way to understand the dilemma of contemporary American literature in the age of Donald Trump is to see it as an imperial literature. The United States is a different kind of empire, exerting gl…

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Simple sketch of a WW2 bomb onto which the narrator of Kurt Vonnegut’s novel Breakfast of Champions has painted the words “Goodbye Blue Monday.” In the story, it was dropped by Allied forces on Germany.

Gotta a feeling this’ll be appropriate tomorrow, Monday, June 23:

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When you just finished a book, but it's time for bed and you can't decide which one to read next - 1 you've already started - or 2 of these other ones from your TBR list that are equally if not even more intriguing?

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Ruth Hall: A Domestic Tale of the Present Time by Fanny Fern 336 pages • pub 1854

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Taking a tour of these covers throughout 2025: Ruth Hall: A Domestic Tale of the Present Time by Fanny Fern - 336 pages • pub 1854

Come talk about nests with me in Pittsburgh next March!! #nemla #literature #americanlit #ecocriticism

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Reading this atm - can’t imagine why story of a populist politician should have attracted me, but hey ho…” #reading #americanlit #literature #fiction
“…soon now we shall go out of the house and go into the convulsion of the world, out of history into history and the awful responsibility of Time.”

I love the book, This Side of Paradise.
I loved it as a teenager, and I adore it now. Dear Amory Blaine is an insufferable little personage. But he is detailed with such self-awareness. That’s what we love.

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