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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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Great Reads
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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Bookstore1Sarasota
- Apr 4, 2022
- 1 min
Roxanne Reviews "Inspired"
Roxanne reviews Inspired: Understanding Creativity: A Journey Through Art, Science, and the Soul by Mark Richtel Inspired by Matt Richtel...
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Bookstore1Sarasota
- Mar 1, 2022
- 1 min
Roxanne Reviews "My Mess is a Bit of a Life"
Roxanne reviews My Mess is a Bit of a Life: Adventures in Anxiety by Georgia Pritchett Even with our common language and ancestral...
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Bookstore1Sarasota
- Feb 11, 2022
- 1 min
Roxanne Reviews "Cloud Cuckoo Land"
Roxanne reviews Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr Some books are an amusing distraction, some lyrical dreamworks and some downright...
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Bookstore1Sarasota
- Jan 31, 2022
- 1 min
Roxanne Reviews "Free Love"
Roxanne reviews Free Love by Tess Hadley. Having never read Tess Hadley’s previous best selling novels, Late in the Day or The Past, I...
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Bookstore1Sarasota
- Jan 17, 2022
- 1 min
Doug's Mini-Review "The Paris Bookseller"
Doug was thoroughly impressed with Kerri Maher's new novel The Paris Bookseller. It is the story of Sylvia Beach and her Paris bookstore...
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Bookstore1Sarasota
- Dec 27, 2021
- 1 min
Roxanne Reviews "I Came All This Way to Meet You: Writing Myself Home"
Roxanne reviews I Came All This Way to Meet You: Writing Myself Home by Jami Attenburg. If you’ve ever had a period of wanderlust, or...
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