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10 books I loved in 2015

Ten books I loved in 2015 (and you might too)

January 15, 2016 youbigtalker

I’ve been reading so many good books lately and have been meaning to share them with you. (I’ve also read…

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Posted in: Ingredient 3: Art Filed under: a manual for cleaning women, a supposedly fun thing I'll never do again, although of course you end up becoming yourself, and Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on the Decision Not to Have Kids, aziz ansari, best books of 2015, brooklyn, brown girl dreaming, cbgb, cherry, czech republic, David Foster Wallace, dfw, dh lawrence, essays, jacqueline woodson, jonathan lethem, just kids, kim gordan, leaving las vegas, Lucia Berlin, mary karr, meghan daum, milan kundera, millionaire teacher, misbehaving, missing person, modern romance, musicophilia, my struggle, north korea, nudge, oliver sacks, one minute stories, patricia highsmith, patrick modiano, patti smith, richard thaler, Selfish, Shallow, studs terkel, suki kim, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, the fortress of solitude, the liars club, the magus, the night of the gun, the rainbow, the stranger, there is no us, top books of 2015, without you, working

without you there is no us

Without you, there is no us

July 28, 2015 youbigtalker 1 Comment

We are watching you I reserved a copy of Suki Kim’s latest book, Without You, There Is No Us: My…

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Posted in: Ingredient 2: Activism Filed under: cults, dictatorship, Harry Potter, journalism, Kim Jong-il, missionaries, Narnia, north korea, south korean author, suki kim, without you there is no us

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