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The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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The Great Gatsby is so good that it plays on your terms, whatever they may be. It never feels as complex as it is; the many metaphors are never overbearing. You may come to Gatsby as someone who studies literature or someone who simply enjoys it, and the novel will deliver its ample gifts to you.

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, (List Price: $9.99, Pocket Books, 9781982146702, November 2020)

Reviewed by Michelle, Cavalier House Books in Denham Springs, LA

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Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

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Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
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When I first read this novel, it was as if scales fell from my eyes. As Hurston writes, I began to see life “like a great tree in leaf with the things suffered, things enjoyed, things done and undone. Dawn and Doom in the branches.” Get it. Read it. Period.

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, (List Price: $27.99, Amistad, 9780063068537, January 2021)

Reviewed by Jim, Righton Books in St Simons Island, GA

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The Nature Book by Tom Comitta

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The Nature Book by Tom Comitta
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A deftly experimental book that seeks to portray a world sans humans, Nature Book borrows from a history of rich, descriptive prose to reconstruct the cycles of days, seasons, and migrations as they continue quiet and unobserved, separate from human society. And yet, human description and literary convention make up the entirety of this story! This beautifully avant garde novel from an organic and unfettered nonbinary perspective is an awe-inducing teleportation into a beautiful cosmos and a rapidly changing climate as captured throughout the history of literature. Great for reading piecemeal or overwhelmingly all at once.

The Nature Book by Tom Comitta, (List Price: $17.95, Coffee House Press, 9781566896634, March 2023)

Reviewed by Amanda Depperschmidt, Fountain Bookstore in Richmond, Virginia

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