When Catalina goes into the kitchen to refill her calabash, Frances grabs the box of Thompson paperbacks and makes a run for Ray at the restaurant.
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Amanda Whiting,
Vulture,
1 Oct. 2025
There are bookshelves teeming with dog-eared paperbacks, imposing hardbacks, critical anthologies, story collections, art books; my writer is also a reader, and a voracious one at that.
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Katie da Cunha Lewin
September 26,
Literary Hub,
26 Sep. 2025
Concurrent with the compound complexity of contemporary cars, most have become mind-numbing thick-as-a-brick tomes.
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Jim Gorzelany,
Forbes.com,
17 Sep. 2025
Their upstairs room full of antique tomes provides panoramic views of the historic statehouse and its statue of former governor William Goebel, who was assassinated on the grounds in 1900.
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