“No book worth its salt is meant to put you to sleep,” says the garrulous shoemaker who narrates the Czech novelist Bohumil Hrabal’s “Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age” (1964), “it’s meant to ...
The staff of Book World reads a lot, but some moments stick with us more than others. These are some of the best, most quotable sentences we read throughout 2024 in books book new and old. There are ...
Some books take their time to grab a hold of your attention, their plot and characters slowly developing into something interesting and beautiful. But other books catch your eye the second you skim ...
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