Uploaded November 2022 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Lotsa [pretty short] goodies in the past month, mes petits choux: essay collections about reading & writing, Italian fiction, two different sea-related novels about loss with magical/horror elements, mother-child relationships...

Books:
Love Me Tender by Constance Debré (2020)
Cold Enough for Snow, Jessica Au (2022)
Five Tuesdays in Winter, Lily King (2021)
Translating Myself and Others, Jhumpa Lahiri (2022)
Body Work, Melissa Febos (2022)
How to Read Now, Elaine Castillo (2022)
Palomar, Italo Calvino (1983)
Our Wives under the Sea, Julia Armfield (2022)
Oh, to Be a Painter!, Virginia Woolf (2021)
Upstream: Selected Essays, Mary Oliver (2016)
L’amore molesto, Elena Ferrante (1992)
The Seas, Samantha Hunt (2004)
Lucy, Jamaica Kincaid (1990)

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