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6 days ago
2 min

Two comforting Brit books: A Week in Winter, and Winter Solstice

"The old house was being renovated. Even from this distance he could see the evidence of it in the yard: piles of timber, a small bonfire...

Gaili Schoen

Jan 16
1 min

The Widower's Notebook

"A part of me needed to suffer. Suffering is painful and tangible, but something I could curl up with, and I did."

Gaili Schoen

Jan 15
1 min

The Happiness Passport

"Gunnen (Dutch) [describes] the action of wishing a positive experience upon another...When we experience..kindness..we behave more kindly"

Gaili Schoen

Jan 14
2 min

The Buddha in the Attic

"By day we worked in their orchards and fields, but every night, we returned home."

Gaili Schoen

Jan 13
2 min

This Is Not My Memoir

"...There are three stages in a life: Youth, Middle Age, and You're-looking-great!"

Gaili Schoen

Jan 3
2 min

The Switch

'"Hi Mum," I say. "Leena, hi!" I wince. She's all breezy and faux casual, like she's practiced the greeting before making the call...."

Gaili Schoen

Jan 3
2 min

Wintering

"We have seasons when we flourish and seasons when the leaves fall from us, revealing our bare bones. Given time, they grow again.”

Gaili Schoen

Dec 27, 2020
3 min

The Diary of a Bookseller

"...perhaps he is one of the dying breed who understand that, if they want bookshops to survive, they have to support them."

Gaili Schoen

Dec 23, 2020
2 min

Fifty in Reverse

"I miss my iPhone! I'll never complain about the autocorrect function again." Lately I've been enjoying this genre of books that involve ...

Gaili Schoen

Dec 17, 2020
1 min

Noah's Compass

All along...he had experienced only the most glancing relationship with his own life..."

Gaili Schoen

Dec 11, 2020
1 min

The Searcher

“He hated the way every drug...scooped the solidity right out of the world and left it quicksand-textured, cracked...and wavering..."

Gaili Schoen

Dec 10, 2020
2 min

Before the Coffee Gets Cold

“Seasons flow in a cycle. Life too, passes through difficult winters. But after any winter, spring will follow.”

Gaili Schoen

Nov 26, 2020
1 min

Memorial: A Novel

"She replies, 'He came out of my body. He's a homosexual. He left his mother with a stranger. I've already got everything I need to know.'"

Gaili Schoen

Nov 21, 2020
1 min

The Midnight Library

I absolutely loved this book about a young woman named Nora Seed who decides to take an overdose when all in her life seems too agonizing...

Gaili Schoen

Nov 18, 2020
2 min

We Gather Together

Author Denise Kiernan traces the origins of the Thanksgiving holiday and explores the idea of expressing gratitude collectively as a nati...

Gaili Schoen

Nov 2, 2020
1 min

The Anglophile's Notebook

"She was an optimist at heart and viewed travel as transformative, a coming together of life and poetry."

Do You Read Me? Bookstores Around The World

Gaili Schoen

Oct 12, 2020
1 min

Do You Read Me? Bookstores Around The World

"'A bookstore is the soul of a neighborhood,' says Emma Straub." - Writer and owner of Books Are Magic, Brooklyn

Gaili Schoen

Sep 11, 2020
1 min

Musical Chairs

"Not a fan of nature, small-town life, or unnerving quiet, Will himself was in no way enamored of Bridget's large, cranky house."

Gaili Schoen

Aug 15, 2020
1 min

Impersonation

"...so many hand-knit pink hats...all those people...who wanted better things for women and had made their outrage into a...global event."

Gaili Schoen

Jul 15, 2020
1 min

Nobody Will Tell You This But Me

“If you’re having a rotten day, go buy yourself an ice cream soda and a new hat.”

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