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Roxanne Reviews "Collecting Confidence"
Roxanne reviews Collecting Confidence: Start Where You Are to Become the Person You Were Meant to Be. Collecting Confidence: Start Where...
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Bookstore1Sarasota
- Apr 30
- 1 min
Roxanne Reviews "Community Board"
Roxanne reviews Community Board by Tara Conklin. One of my mother’s sage maxims when I was a teen was, “Lighten up”. Surely this is also...
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Bookstore1Sarasota
- Apr 10
- 1 min
Ben Picks Five
Say hi to Ben Kerns our newest bookseller. Since he started in February, Ben has been recommending staff picks that are eclectic,...
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Bookstore1Sarasota
- Apr 3
- 1 min
Roxanne Reviews "The Good Life"
Roxanne reviews The Good Life: Lessons from the World's Longest Scientific Study of Happiness by Robert Waldinger, MD, & Marc Schulz, PhD...
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Bookstore1Sarasota
- Mar 6
- 1 min
Roxanne Reviews "Empty Theatre"
Roxanne reviews Empty Theatre: A Novel : or The Lives of King Ludwig II of Bavaria and Empress Sisi of Austria (Queen of Hungary),...
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Bookstore1Sarasota
- Feb 13
- 1 min
Roxanne Reviews "Big Swiss"
Roxanne reviews Big Swiss by Jen Beagin Jen Beagin is the Whiting Award winning author of Pretend I’m Dead and the sequel Vacuum in the...
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Bookstore1Sarasota
- Jan 30
- 1 min
Scott and Doug Book Blurb
What have Scott and Doug been reading lately? Non-fiction edition. Scott read The Kingdom of Characters: The Language Evolution that Made...
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Bookstore1Sarasota
- Jan 2
- 1 min
Roxanne Reviews "Stella Maris"
Roxanne reviews Stella Maris by Cormac McCarthy Confession: I had never read Cormac McCarthy before. Sure, I saw the film No Country...
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Bookstore1Sarasota
- Dec 11, 2022
- 3 min
PoetryLife 2023: Celebrating Heritage
Each year since 2012 PoetryLife, a project of Bookstore1Sarasota, has been bringing the best of the world’s poets to Sarasota. PoetryLife...
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Bookstore1Sarasota
- Dec 5, 2022
- 2 min
Why a Book Club is as Healthy a Pursuit as a Personal Trainer
Roxanne reviews The Beginning of Spring by Penelope Fitzgerald Book club or no, I’m reading all the time and love the adventure of the...
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Bookstore1Sarasota
- Sep 13, 2022
- 1 min
Roxanne Reviews "Profiles in Ignorance"
Roxanne reviews Profiles in Ignorance: How America’s Politicians Got Dumb and Dumber by Andy Borowitz I broke my abstinence of plugging...
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Bookstore1Sarasota
- Sep 5, 2022
- 3 min
Katia Reviews "Fellowship Point"
Katia reviews Fellowship Point by Alice Elliott Dark Alice Elliott Dark caught me by surprise with her latest novel, Fellowship Point....
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Bookstore1Sarasota
- Aug 29, 2022
- 1 min
Roxanne Reviews "Medusa's Ankles"
Roxanne reviews Medusa's Ankles: Selected Stories by A.S. Byatt A.S. Byatt, a seasoned Booker Prize winner (Possession: a Romance),...
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Bookstore1Sarasota
- Aug 1, 2022
- 1 min
Roxanne Reviews "Avalon"
Roxanne reviews Avalon by Nell Zink Avalon will be my go to selection for customers who come into BookStore1 and don’t want anything too...
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Bookstore1Sarasota
- Jul 11, 2022
- 1 min
Roxanne Reviews "Wise Blood"
Roxanne Reviews Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor The lazy crazy hazy days of summer seemed like the perfect time to read a classic, and...
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Bookstore1Sarasota
- Jun 27, 2022
- 1 min
Roxanne Reviews "In the Early Times: A Life Reframed"
Roxanne reviews In the Early Times: A Life Reframed by Tad Friend A "sins of the father" type memoir by the New Yorker staff writer Tad...
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Bookstore1Sarasota
- May 20, 2022
- 1 min
Roxanne Reviews "Anna: The Biography"
Roxanne reviews Anna: The Biography by Amy Odell Anna Wintour is a force to be reckoned with and Amy Odell’s new biography has delicious...
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Bookstore1Sarasota
- May 9, 2022
- 2 min
Roxanne Reviews "Love Marriage"
Roxanne reviews Love Marriage by Monica Ali Love Marriage by Monica Ali is the perfect book complement to the recent Oscar nominated film...
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Bookstore1Sarasota
- May 2, 2022
- 1 min
Roxanne Reviews "Pure Colour"
Roxanne review Pure Colour by Sheila Heiti You know a writer is talented when she/he/they can outdo previous stories with a truly...
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Bookstore1Sarasota
- Apr 11, 2022
- 1 min
Roxanne Review "Groundskeeping"
Roxanne reviews Groundskeeping by Lee Cole Groundskeeping is a complicated modern romance of a couple from opposite backgrounds. Its...
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