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'The Boys in the Boat' is narrative gold
This is KUOW's book club, and we just read through the first half of Daniel James Brown's "The Boys in the Boat" about the University of Washington crew team's quest for gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics.
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What's KUOW's book club reading in August?
It's time to announce this month's book club pick!
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'And now it was done.' The perfectly imperfect ending of Kristen Millares Young's novel 'Subduction'
This is KUOW's book club, and we’re wrapping up Kristen Millares Young's novel "Subduction."
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We need to talk about Claudia from 'Subduction'
This is KUOW's book club, and we just read through the first half of Kristen Millares Young's debut novel "Subduction."
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What's KUOW's book club reading in July?
It's time to announce this month's book club pick!
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How an Indigenous author harnessed her pain to make something 'exquisite'
This is KUOW's book club, and we’re wrapping up Terese Marie Mailhot's memoir "Heart Berries."
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How Terese Marie Mailhot tells her story through devastating prose
This is KUOW's book club, and we just read through the first half of Terese Marie Mailhot’s memoir "Heart Berries."
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What's KUOW's book club reading next?
It's time to announce our next book club pick!
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The heart-rending true love story behind 'Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet'
This is KUOW's book club, and we’re wrapping up Jamie Ford’s "Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet."
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What does 'home' mean to us?
I could dwell on any number of themes in this, our third check-in, from the role of women in this story to the end of childhood when the world is falling apart around youth. But what I want to talk most about today is the concept of “home.”
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Jamie Ford is a heartbreaker
Jamie Ford doesn’t need me to tell him he's an exceptional writer, but I sure would like to have a word with him about his talent for setting a pleasant mood – and killing it in brutal fashion.
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Time's role in 'Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet' by Jamie Ford
As a writer, I always wonder how much authors reveal about themselves in their work – whether they know it or not. I found myself thinking about that as I read the first 13 chapters of Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, emotionally charged as they were.
