#BookBingoNW2020 - Mentioned in Another Book
Here are some suggestions for your Summer Book Bingo NW 2020 category: Mentioned in another book.
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The Reluctant Fundamentalist
In The End of Your Life Book Club, Will Schwalbe wrote “Hamid’s novel immediately made me reevaluate whom I could believe and what I could trust, my own prejudices and those others had about me--on a personal level, but also globally.”
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The Price of Salt
In The End of Your Life Book Club, Will Schwalbe wrote: “The Price of Salt, by Patricia Highsmith, first appeared in 1952 under a pseudonym and would sell more than a million copies.”
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The Bluest Eye: [a Novel]
In the introduction to Well-Read Black Girl, editor Glory Edim, wrote: “It’s been forty-eight years since Toni Morrison wrote The Bluest Eye. Her words have set the unyielding precedent in American literature. So many generations of Black women felt seen after reading her work.”
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
In Well-Read Black Girl, Jesmyn Ward wrote: “Cassie was as powerless as I was, living in a world of adults and bewildering circumstances, a world rotten with Jim Crow and sharecropping and ‘night men’ and racism.
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Dreamsnake
In Words Are My Matter Ursula K. Le Guin said of Seattle author Vonda N. McIntyre’s Dreamsnake, “When people ask me what sf books influenced me or what are my favorites I always mention Dreamsnake.”
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Embassytown
Ursula K. Le Guin wrote in Words Are My Matter: “China Miéville knows what kind of novel he’s writing, calls it by its name, science fiction, and exhibits all the virtues that make it an intensely interesting form of literature. ...Embassytown is a fully achieved work of art.”
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Ten Thousand Saints
In Ten Years in the Tub, Nick Hornby writes: “Ten Thousand Saints is the offspring of Lester Bangs and Anne Tyler, and who wouldn’t want to read that baby?”
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The Warrior's Apprentice
In What Makes This Book So Great, Jo Walton writes: “What makes this so good is that it has about 90 percent more depth than you’d expect it to have. The plot may be ‘seventeen-year-old with physical disabilities becomes admiral of space mercenaries’ but the themes are much deeper and more interesting.”
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Kindred
Jo Walton in What Makes This Book So Great writes: “The immediate effect of reading Octavia Butler’s Kindred (1981) is to make every other time travel book in the world look as if it’s wimping out.”\n\n
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Citizen Vince
In Ten Years in the Tub, Nick Horby wrote: "The clincher for me was an enthusiastic blurb by the great Richard Russo, and he didn't let me down, because Citizen Vince is fast, tough, thoughtful, and funny."
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