Tag: Bob Hartley
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Review: Following Tommy by Bob Hartley
Following Tommy by Bob Hartley is a gem of a book: hard, brilliant and valuable. It tells the story of Jacky O’Day, a bookish teen who lives in a changing Irish neighborhood in 1962 Chicago with an alcoholic father and a troubled older brother, Tommy. All of them live in the devastating aftermath of the […]
Michael Janairo
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2017 Year in Review in Reading
I always feel like I’ve never read enough. These are the covers of the 30 books I completed reading in 2017, though some I may have started the year before. Some of the books are important. Some of them are fun. Some are both.
Michael Janairo
2017, 2017 Year in Review, A God in Ruins, Ann Patchett, Bob Hartley, Citizen, Claudia Rankine, Commonwealth, DJ Older, Exit West, George Saunders, Helen Garner, Kate Atkinson, Lincoln in the Bardo, Mohsin Hamid, North and Central, novels, poetry, Shadowshaper, The Spare Room, this is just to say, twitter threads, william carlos williams