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Moods over numbers: a mid-year reading workup
Questions and diagnostics for your reading habits
Jul 3
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Kolina Cicero
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Announcing My Brilliant Ferrante: a community reading & reflection series for Women in Translation Month
Join me in reading Elena Ferrante for the month of August
Jun 26
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Kolina Cicero
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The 25 most iconic first sentences I've ever read
An opening sentence = the analog hook
Jun 19
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Kolina Cicero
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The 24 most beautiful sentences I read in 2024
Dec 26, 2024
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For the new and the curious
Jan 23
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Kolina Cicero
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The 25 most iconic first sentences I've ever read
Jun 19
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Kolina Cicero
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How did a plotless 136-page novel win the prestigious Booker Prize?
May 22
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Kolina Cicero
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I have already lost touch with a couple people I used to be. — Joan Didion on keeping a personal notebook
Oct 17, 2024
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Kolina Cicero
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Five surprising books I made my husband read (and he loved)
May 15
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Kolina Cicero
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A funny book about HIV/AIDS? Bobby Finger did it.
Plus queer fiction recommendations and a chat with the author
Jun 12
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Kolina Cicero
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Sad girl lit, but make it a memoir
On Better: A Memoir About Wanting to Die by Arianna Rebolini
Jun 5
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Kolina Cicero
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Five books that made me feel this month
May 2025 reading roundup
May 29
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Kolina Cicero
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How did a plotless 136-page novel win the prestigious Booker Prize?
I understood by the first page
May 22
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Kolina Cicero
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Five surprising books I made my husband read (and he loved)
An intimate look at how reading helped my husband through the early days of sobriety and beyond
May 15
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Kolina Cicero
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Suleika Jaouad on the journal: It's a repository of memory, a place to catch moments as if in amber
On the instant New York Times bestseller, The Book of Alchemy + a giveaway 📖
May 8
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Kolina Cicero
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