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Laurie Marr Wasmund Author Of My Heart Lies Here

From Laurie's 3 favorite reads in 2025.

Why am I passionate about this?

Author History lover Cattle rancher’s daughter Educator Nature steward

Laurie's 3 favorite reads in 2025

Laurie Marr Wasmund Why Laurie loves this book

There are some books that give you both a gut punch and a heartache at the same time. This is one of those. Karen Russell is one of my favorite authors, and this year I have read three of her books. She has a wild, weird way of dissecting the world through the wild, weird microcosm of Florida. She creatively uses point of view in Swamplandia!, giving us the first-person voice of Ava Bigtree while casting other point-of-view characters in third person narration. This allows the reader to ache and hope and fail and succeed with Ava, our hearts breaking with each step. Oh, and did I mention--this is one hilarious book.

By Karen Russell ,

Why should I read it?

8 authors picked Swamplandia! as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

New York Times Bestseller | Pulitzer Prize Finalist

"Ms. Russell is one in a million. . . . A suspensfuly, deeply haunted book."--The New York Times

Thirteen-year-old Ava Bigtree has lived her entire life at Swamplandia!, her family’s island home and gator-wrestling theme park in the Florida Everglades. But when illness fells Ava’s mother, the park’s indomitable headliner, the family is plunged into chaos; her father withdraws, her sister falls in love with a spooky character known as the Dredgeman, and her brilliant big brother, Kiwi, defects to a rival park called The World of Darkness.

As Ava sets out…


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Aggressor by FX Holden,

It is April 1st, 2038. Day 60 of China's blockade of the rebel island of Taiwan.

The US government has agreed to provide Taiwan with a weapons system so advanced that it can disrupt the balance of power in the region. But what pilot would be crazy enough to run…

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From Ron's 3 favorite reads in 2024.

Unknown Author Why Ron loves this book

The way it shifts between radically different styles, while retaining a unique Joycean flavour. It provides some of the best displays of the first-person experience of being an actual human being going about their day, with all their idiosyncrasies, irrationalities, imaginations, misunderstandings, etc. And its endlessly analysable, full of word play, allusions, philosophical and psychological insights, beautifully lyrical language, etc.

By James Joyce ,

Why should I read it?

6 authors picked Ulysses as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

James Joyce's masterpiece, Ulysses, tells of the diverse events which befall Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus in Dublin on one day in June 1904. It is considered to be one of the most important works of modernist literature and was hailed as a work of genius by W. B. Yeats, T. S. Eliot and Ernest Hemingway. Scandalously frank, wittily erudite, mercurially eloquent, resourcefully comic and generously humane, Ulysses offers the reader a life-changing experience


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