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Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel | Jonathan Safran Foer

#bannedbooksunday today's book is Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close. This book was banned due to passages that were "Extremely vulgar detailing sexual acts". The National Coalition Against Censorship had this to say on its banning "Removing a book with recognized literary and pedagogical merit simply because a few parents disapprove of it not only disserve the educational interests of students but also raises serious constitutional concerns."

TheBookHippie I like this book. His ex wife wrote one of my very favorite books

The History of Love

AprilMae @TheBookHippie I have that book and have been meaning to get to it. I'll probably have to physically take it off the shelf and put it on my desk or nightstand so I get to it!! 2d

TheBookHippie @AprilMae it‘s so beautiful. 2d

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Soubhiville

Idlewild | James Frankie Thomas

My StoryGraph January cover collage! I love that StoryGraph does this now!
Idlewild was definitely the best of the month. Second place to Adrift in Currents Clean and Clear.

BarbaraBB I loved Idlewild too 2w

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bcncookbookclub

Netherland: A Novel | Joseph O'Neill

#fooandlit2025
Lovely selection of countries to discover news flavours and words this year!

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SilversReviews

The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland | Jim DeFede

An amazing read about how Newfoundland helped the USA on 911!!

Thanks, @ChaoticMissAdventures

“20 Day Cover Challenge - As we start a new year and think about what we want in a book.

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.” 9/20

#20covers

Kristin_Reads Great pick; I remember this one so vividly. 1mo

SilversReviews @Kristin_Reads I read this for my book club. None of us actually remembered. 1mo

ChaoticMissAdventures I have never read the book, but I saw the play which was very moving. 1mo

SilversReviews @ChaoticMissAdventures I am sure it was very moving. 3w

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Soubhiville

Idlewild | James Frankie Thomas

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I‘ve got my first book hangover of the year thanks to Idlewild. Once I started it I really never wanted to put it down. The passion and yearning of high school/ teen life, even when you aren‘t sure what the huge yearning feeling is for exactly, combined with such deeply considered characters.

While the ending felt right and very realistic, I did hope for something slightly different.

Best book of the year so far 😆. I did love this.
(Pic-Igor)

AmyG Love the photo! 1mo

dabbe 🖤🐾🖤 1mo

MartinaLove Too sweet 🐱 1mo

Soubhiville This was my #bookspin for January. @TheAromaofBooks 1mo

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 1mo

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Soubhiville

Idlewild | James Frankie Thomas

I‘m only 3/4 through, but I can feel this one is likely to make my best of list for the year. It‘s kind of exciting to say that this early in January!

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Bookwormjillk I liked that book a lot. It was really different yet somehow relatable. 1mo

AmyG Isn‘t it wonderful when a book takes you by surprise? 1mo

squirrelbrain It made my best of list when I read it! 1mo

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Hooked_on_books It was a favorite for me, too! 😍 1mo

Ruthiella This was a fantastic book. 👍 1mo

Magpiegem Ooh this sounds fantastic! 1mo

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elijah.reibin

Ground Zero | Alan Gratz

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Ground Zero, created by Alan Gratz follows two parallel stories that is framed around the 9/11 attack during and after the incident. In 2001, a young boy named Brandon is trapped within the World Trade Center, also known as the Twin Towers, after the terrorist attack happened and tries to survive. In 2019, an Afghan girl named Reshima faces consequences on the ongoing war in Afghanistan from the result of 9/11. Through both characters experiences,

elijah.reibin the book follows the theme terrorism, survival, war, and the risk of their own lives through global conflict. Both characters show how even in tough situations, the only way to survive is to face conflicts, and I highly recommended this book if you like how the main character struggles to overcome obstacles to keep themselves alive. In the photo, it has the recharge of the twin towers, but the symbol throughout the book is the dust on the (edited) 1mo

elijah.reibin front of the page. Dust represents the aftermath of the destruction from the twin towers and the collapse of Afghanistan. The violence from Brandon‘s point of view represents the immediate chaos and the loss of purity, while Reshima‘s view on cruelty signifies the ongoing suffering and instability in her world after the 9/11 attack. Throughout the book, dust is the reminder of how the actions of one‘s enemies can affect the individual and society, 1mo

elijah.reibin which lets us think of the outcome when violence can become a far-reaching problem. 1mo

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Soubhiville

Idlewild | James Frankie Thomas