The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron
1966, Random House This brilliantly written fictionalized version of the 1831 massacre of more than 50 whites by a group of slaves in...
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kelliebooksblog
- Sep 14, 2020
- 1 min
Introducing "Friends are reading..."
Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War by Tony Horwitz 2011, Macmillan Welcome to Friends are reading...,...
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kelliebooksblog
- Sep 10, 2020
- 1 min
They Told Us To Dream by Blessing Okoro
The Dreamer’s Digest 2017, Blessing Okoro Blessing Okoro is a former student of mine who impressed me with her determination. She wrote...
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kelliebooksblog
- Sep 10, 2020
- 2 min
Devil in the Grove by Gilbert King
2012, Harper Collins In 1949, in Lake County, Florida, Thurgood Marshall and other lawyers defended the Groveland Boys, four young black...
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kelliebooksblog
- Sep 7, 2020
- 3 min
Eleven Rings by Phil Jackson
Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success By Phil Jackson and Hugh Delehanty 2013, The Penguin Press After watching The Last Dance on Netflix...
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kelliebooksblog
- Sep 7, 2020
- 1 min
In Memory of my Mom
On July 2, 2020 my Mom died. Life goes on, it always does, but everything is different in a sometimes slight but always very real way....
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kelliebooksblog
- Jun 1, 2020
- 2 min
Anita Brookner Books
A Start in Life (1981), Providence (1982), A Misalliance (1987), Jonathan Cape Ltd Anita Brookner books are a rather odd mix of...
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kelliebooksblog
- May 25, 2020
- 2 min
Back to Blog Tea
Hello readers! After a 2-month hiatus during the Covid crisis, my friend Jo welcomed me back to the "office", a room in her house where I...
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kelliebooksblog
- Apr 14, 2020
- 4 min
Paid For by Rachel Moran
2013, W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. Before we can expect social change, prostitution must be recognised for the abuse that it is. -Rachel...
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kelliebooksblog
- Apr 14, 2020
- 2 min
King Kong Theorie by Virginie Despentes
2006, Editions Grasset & Fasquelle Available in English, King Kong Theory Diane received this book as a birthday present and left it...
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kelliebooksblog
- Mar 9, 2020
- 2 min
Bouche coussue by Mazarine Pingeot
2005, Editions Julliard, Paris In in another chance encounter, I happened to see this book in a pile at Jo’s house. (Jo is my friend who...
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kelliebooksblog
- Mar 9, 2020
- 4 min
Le Consentement by Vanessa Springora
2019, Grasset, Paris Worth reading. Jane lent me this book since it was sold out at my local bookstore. She mailed it to me after...
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kelliebooksblog
- Mar 2, 2020
- 4 min
Le monde selon Amazon by Benoît Berthelot
2019, Le Cherche Midi, Paris (The world according to Amazon). Not available in English. So read on! I bought this book at the Gare du...
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kelliebooksblog
- Feb 25, 2020
- 2 min
Last Days of the Bus Club by Chris Stewart
2014, Sort Of Books, London In Last Days of the Bus Club, the fourth book in the so-called Driving Over Lemons Trilogy, Stewart's...
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kelliebooksblog
- Feb 25, 2020
- 2 min
Driving Over Lemons by Chris Stewart
An Optimist in Andalucia 1999, Sort Of Books, London My colleague Michele left this book in my work cubby. My first thought was “Nope,...
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kelliebooksblog
- Feb 17, 2020
- 2 min
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F**k by Mark Manson
2016, Harper I found this book in my daughter’s apartment, peeking out of her roomate's shelf in the room I was borrowing. I hadn’t...
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kelliebooksblog
- Feb 17, 2020
- 2 min
The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F**k by Sarah Knight
2015, Quercus Editions Ltd, London How to Stop Spending Time You Don't Have with People You Don't Like Doing Things You Don't Want to Do...
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kelliebooksblog
- Feb 17, 2020
- 3 min
Ce que je peux enfin vous dire by Ségolène Royal
2018, Fayard In Ce que je peux enfin vous dire (What I can finally tell you), which I bought in the supermarket over a year ago,...
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kelliebooksblog
- Jan 27, 2020
- 3 min
“I feel bad for books” inspired by Dylan Rigal
2020, nopublisher A non-book post Yesterday I was talking with Dylan on the phone and he surprised me by saying he’d actually started...
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kelliebooksblog
- Jan 20, 2020
- 2 min
Zero Waste Home by Bea Johnson
2013, Scribner France: Zéro Déchet, 2013, Editions des Arènes Bea Johnson is a French woman living in the USA. She and her family have...
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