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Harvey Freedenberg @harvf.bsky.social · 3d

My #sundaysentence a day late (I was out of town yesterday.)

“Light came right down the middle of the street like a delivery.” Ian Frazier, THE SNAKES THAT ATE FLORIDA (coming January 2026)

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Harvey Freedenberg @harvf.bsky.social · 9d

This sentence, from a recent profile of Lockwood in the New Yorker, describes where I am right now: “If the book’s prismatic structure and subjective immediacy feel baffling to encounter, that is because bafflement is the point.“

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Harvey Freedenberg @harvf.bsky.social · 9d

Yes. Could be tricky.

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Harvey Freedenberg @harvf.bsky.social · 9d

I'm reading her new novel. Not easy so far.

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Harvey Freedenberg @harvf.bsky.social · 9d

A beautiful book. I reviewed it here: www.bookreporter.com/reviews/the-...

The Book of Alchemy: A Creative Practice for an Inspired Life | Bookreporter.com

From the time she was young, Suleika Jaouad has kept a journal. She’s used it to mark life's biggest occasions and to weather its most ferocious storms. Journaling has buoyed her through illness, hear...

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Harvey Freedenberg @harvf.bsky.social · 10d

I think you will love it. My review below. I also highly recommend Hamilton Cain‘s review in the New York Times this week: www.bookreporter.com/reviews/one-...

One of Us | Bookreporter.com

It’s 1915, and life is falling apart for 13-year-old twins Bolt and Eleanor. When their mother dies, they are forced to leave home under the care of a vicious con man who claims to be their long-lost ...

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Harvey Freedenberg @harvf.bsky.social · 11d

“Suddenly she is fluttering near the wood-and-mud root cellar ceiling above her—not like a butterfly but more like a bit of ash or ember, carried off on the night breeze, pulled upward like a spark in the narrow trail that leads from a campfire to the dark sky.” D. Chaon, One of Us, #sundaysentence

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Harvey Freedenberg @harvf.bsky.social · 12d

From @bookreporter.bsky.social my review of Dan Chaon’s new novel, ONE OF US: www.bookreporter.com/reviews/one-...

One of Us | Bookreporter.com

It’s 1915, and life is falling apart for 13-year-old twins Bolt and Eleanor. When their mother dies, they are forced to leave home under the care of a vicious con man who claims to be their long-lost ...

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Harvey Freedenberg @harvf.bsky.social · 14d

From @shelf-awareness.com my review of Stewart O’Nan’s new novel, EVENSONG: www.shelf-awareness.com/theshelf/202...

Review: Evensong

Stewart O'Nan's body of work is noteworthy for its diversity across 18 works of fiction, with settings that include post-Civil War Wisconsin

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Harvey Freedenberg @harvf.bsky.social · 16d

Loved that novel. I reviewed it here: www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?i...

Shelf Awareness for Monday, August 21, 2023

Welcome to the Web site for Shelf Awareness: Daily Enlightenment for the Book Trade, the free e-mail newsletter dedicated to helping the people in stores, ...

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Harvey Freedenberg @harvf.bsky.social · 18d

“It was one of those rare evenings one dreams about in winter, when the air seems viscous with warmth, scents and fading light together melting onto the skin as a balm and soaking into the senses.” Ian McEwan WHAT WE CAN KNOW (2025) #sundaysentence

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Harvey Freedenberg @harvf.bsky.social · 18d

From @shelf-awareness.com my review of HISTORY MATTERS, a posthumous collection of pieces from David McCullough, some of them never before published:

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History Matters | Bookreporter.com

HISTORY MATTERS brings together selected essays by beloved historian David McCullough, some published here for the first time, written at different points over the course of his long career, but all f...

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 21d

This is a massive, history making abuse of your power. It will define your legacy and one day you will come to regret punishing free speech and trying to destroy democracy.

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Harvey Freedenberg @harvf.bsky.social · 21d

The US has had wise presidents and stupid presidents, strong presidents and weak presidents.

But we've never had a gangster president.

Until now.

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Harvey Freedenberg @harvf.bsky.social · 24d

From @shelf-awareness.com my review of John Irving’s novel QUEEN ESTHER: www.shelf-awareness.com/theshelf/202... @simonandschuster.bsky.social

Review: Queen Esther

For anyone who's followed John Irving's nearly six-decades-long literary career, settling into another of his novels feels like stepping into

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Harvey Freedenberg @harvf.bsky.social · 25d

“A writer must see with the painter’s eye; a writer must have an ear for the music of words; a writer must have the actor’s gift for mimicry, the capacity to take any part.” David McCullough, HISTORY MATTERS (2025) #sundaysentence

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Harvey Freedenberg @harvf.bsky.social · 25d

Thank you, Matthew. Please keep speaking your truth.

Harvey Freedenberg @harvf.bsky.social · 28d

I only know you from your words on TV and on social media, but I believe you are a man of integrity and decency. I hope this event will not cause you to go silent. We need your voice in these perilous times, and our public discourse would be diminished if it were to disappear.

Harvey Freedenberg @harvf.bsky.social · Sep 7

“She was like a powerful atmospheric depression that squeezes every puff of smoke out of chimneys and casts winter smog over cities.” Olga Tokarczuk, HOUSE OF DAY, HOUSE OF NIGHT (coming 12/2/25) #sundaysentence

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Harvey Freedenberg @harvf.bsky.social · Sep 1

Excellent book. I reviewed it here: www.bookreporter.com/reviews/the-...

The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels | Bookreporter.com

Our current climate of partisan fury is not new, and in THE SOUL OF AMERICA, Jon Meacham shows us how what Abraham Lincoln called the “better angels of our nature” have repeatedly won the day. Paintin...

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Harvey Freedenberg @harvf.bsky.social · Aug 31

“But in fact the most important thing is what’s actually going on here and now, right before your eyes, and questions about the beginning and end tell you nothing worth knowing.” Olga Tokarczuk, HOUSE OF DAY, HOUSE OF NIGHT (pub 12/2/25). #sundaysentence

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Harvey Freedenberg @harvf.bsky.social · Aug 29

This woman’s spurious, and often utterly ridiculous, claims about the 2020 election have been discredited time and time again by multiple courts and election officials.

She doesn’t care about election integrity; her sole job is to make sure Republicans win.

Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · Aug 28

Here he goes.

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Harvey Freedenberg @harvf.bsky.social · Aug 27

Trump appoints a prominent election liar to help oversee election security in '26.

If you are not worried about the integrity of that election, you should be, because Republicans only view one outcome as legitimate--when they win.

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She Pushed to Overturn Trump’s Loss in the 2020 Election. Now She’ll Help Oversee U.S. Election Security. — ProPublica

Heather Honey has been appointed to a senior position in the Department of Homeland Security. State election officials and voting experts are concerned.

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Harvey Freedenberg @harvf.bsky.social · Aug 26

I hope Lisa Cook defies Trump and shows up to work today.

Because if her illegal firing is allowed to stand, we’re no longer living in the United States.

We’ve become Hungary.

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Harvey Freedenberg @harvf.bsky.social · Aug 26

Dear Trump Voters: He said this in 1998. He doesn’t feel differently today.

Jeff Turner 🦋🌈🦋🌈@loveneverhate @loveneverhate.bsky.social · Apr 3

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