In the Margins |
Holiday Readsby the staff at Talking Leaves |
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Books make wonderful gifts during the holidays and throughout the year, but it is impossible to find any one book that will appeal to everyone. Each book’s appeal ultimately is as singular as the person who receives and reads it—there is no one size fits all in the world of letters.
That said, here’s what some Talking Leaves staffers are confident (at this moment) would appeal to almost any recipient—some recent releases, some classic (as you can see, there is no overlap at all in these selections):
Alicia: Shantaram, by Gregory Roberts; Specimen Days, by Michael Cunningham; Assassin’s Cloak: World’s Greatest Diarists, ed. Irene Taylor
Becky: Man Without a Country, by Kurt Vonnegut; Memories of My Melancholy Whores, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Cait: Sacred Hunger, by Barry Unsworth
Clare: Postsecret: Extraordinary Confessions, ed. Frank Warren; ReadyMade: How to Make (Almost) Everything, by Shoshana Berger
Jon: What the Stones Remember, by Patrick Lane; A Field Guide to Getting Lost, by Rebecca Solnit, and Collected Poems, by Robert Creeley
Ken: Lyrics 1962-2000, by Bob Dylan; Under the Banner of Heaven, by Jon Krakauer
Lucy: Poems of Emily Dickinson; The Plot Against America, by Philip Roth; Everything is Illuminated, by Jonathan Safran Foer
Tim: Middlemarch, by George Eliot; and pretty much any one of Graham Greene’s or P.G. Wodehouse’s novels.
For more great ideas we suggest you pick up Talking Leaves’ new catalog, produced with New World Record, where a score of local luminaries discuss some of their favorite books and music alongside hundreds of recommended titles. There’s sure to be something for everyone, and purchasing locally is a gift to our whole community.
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