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Ann Marie Jackson Author Of The Broken Hummingbird

From Ann's 3 favorite reads in 2023.

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Ann's 3 favorite reads in 2023

Ann Marie Jackson Why Ann loves this book

My book club rescued this classic Mexican novel from my TBR pile, where it had languished far too long.

I am grateful because when I finally read it, I found Pedro Páramo bewitching. On her deathbed, a mother commands her son to return to their original village to find his father. Everyone he meets there is dead, and the dead have stories to tell. 

When Pedro Páramo was first published in 1955, readers didn’t know what to think of this precursor to magical realism, but then it caught on in a big way. Gabriel García Márquez claimed he could recite the entire novella.

A new movie version starring Tenoch Huerta Mejía from Wakanda Forever will be out soon. You’ll want to read the book before seeing the film.

By Juan Rulfo , Margaret Sayers Peden (translator) ,

Why should I read it?

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

What is this book about?

Winner, Fred Whitehead Award for the Best Design of a Trade Book from Texas Institute of Letters Western Books Exhibition Selection, Rounce & Coffin Club, 2003 Deserted villages of rural Mexico, where images and memories of the past linger like unquiet ghosts, haunted the imaginations of two artists-writer Juan Rulfo and photographer Josephine Sacabo. In one such village of the mind, Comala, Rulfo set his classic novel Pedro Paramo, a dream-like tale that intertwines a man's quest to find his lost father and reclaim his patrimony with the father's obsessive love for a woman who will not be possessed-Susana San…


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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 Wesley's 3 favorite reads in 2025.

Unknown Author Why Wesley loves this book

Amazing concept and genuinely the best short story I've read in years.

By Steven L. Peck ,

Why should I read it?

7 authors picked A Short Stay in Hell as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

An ordinary family man, geologist, and Mormon, Soren Johansson has always believed he’ll be reunited with his loved ones after death in an eternal hereafter. Then, he dies. Soren wakes to find himself cast by a God he has never heard of into a Hell whose dimensions he can barely grasp: a vast library he can only escape from by finding the book that contains the story of his life.


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