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Off the Shelf
By Taylor Noel | Wednesday,
December 16, 2015
Being raised in a family of readers, I was quick to absorb every
book my parents put in my hands. By fourth grade, I was filching my parents’
books off nightstands, coffee tables, and deliberately high shelves. I still
remember the look of terror on my dad’s face when he discovered his eleven-year-old
daughter reading Ken Follett’s The
Pillars of the Earth at two in the morning. Needless to say, my
parents and I had a chat about “age-appropriate books.” While I have moved
past the times of censored library privileges, my parents and I still don’t
always agree on books. With Jan-Philipp Sendker’s debut novel, The Art of Hearing Heartbeats,
though, there is no debate. It is unanimously one of the best books we have
ever had the immense pleasure of reading. READ
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