April 23, 2010
Dragon Bones by Lisa See *** (of 4)
A very good mystery with archaeology in the Three Rivers Gorges of contemporary China.
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April 23, 2010
The Dew Breaker by Edwidge Danticat **** (of 4)
Danticat impeccably captures the voices and inner thoughts of Haitian peasants, and first and second generation Haitian immigrants to New York and Florida. Violence lingers...
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Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime by Mark Haddon **** (of 4)
Christopher Boone has Asperger’s Syndrome and Haddon’s book is the best portrayal of what goes through the mind of a young teen who is simultaneously...
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Crabwalk by Gunter Grass
A slow, intelligent, patient novel I listened to on tape about how three generations of Germans relate to Nazis. The central theme is the sinking...
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Corelli’s Mandolin by Louis De Bernieres **** (of 4)
On its surface it is a story of the Italian occupation of the Greek island of Cefalonia during WWII. Captain Corelli, of the Italian armed...
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The Coffee Trader by David Liss *** (of 4)
A Jewish escapee from the Spanish Inquisition makes his living on the Amsterdam stock market, where shrewd trading skills run up to the border of...
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City of God by E.L. Doctorow
Stream of consciousness, not very good, especially when compared to his other books. It’s like he wrote this one as an experiment or wrote it...
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz **** (of 4)
What a masterful, entertaining (if one can use such a word for such despicable deeds), and unique way of telling the story of Trujillo’s dictatorial...
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The Book Thief by Markus Zusak **** (of 4)
Death narrates the story of Liesel Meminger, abandoned, nine-year-old daughter of a communist, who escapes death’s grasp during WWII in the German city of Molching....
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Birds without Wings by Louis DeBerniere
I tried. I read 100 pages but could get no further. An excessively detailed description of the disintegration of a town of Turks (Muslims) and...
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