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Pros
She has such a unique ability to translate life experiences to words that comes through both in her novels and her essays. She tells delicious stories of the many bad novels which she had to sell (if not tout) in her nashville bookstore. Yet, others a... Read More
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Quality
That comes with the territory with any collection
I love the back cover of this book too and appreciate the book cover art after reading about patchetts special relationship with the artist
As an aside almost every one of these essays ends with the perfect line
Price
Taft is one of her least known books and i snorted it
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He died of a neurological disease called progressive supranuclear palsy or psp after an illness of several years during which one after another of his abilities was leached away
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My husband died of the same illness after almost 10 years of gradual and then accelerating decline
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I felt the same but could never say so
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It doesn’t suck you in you get rolled in like the ocean
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This took me a while to finish and really made me loose my rhythm of reading which i had just gotten back
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I am normally a big ann patchett fan and some of these short stories and essays i loved and some of them were a bit overthought
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As i personally aspire to be a writer but am a better critic i probably analyzed the essays too much about snoopy and the academy of arts and letters
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I am so not into essay collections so when my friend loaned me this book several months ago i read a couple of essays and then lost interest
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