Category: FICTION

April 22, 2010

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie ** (of 4)

Listened to on tape, December 2004. It was a good story, but had two strikes against it. The author is Chinese. The book was written...

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April 22, 2010

The Attack by Yasmina Khadra **** (of 4)

The Arab wife of a Bedouin Israeli physician straps a bomb to her waist and blows up a restaurant where Israeli children are celebrating a...

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April 22, 2010

American Pastorale by Phillip Roth

Another great piece of Phillip Roth writing about father-daughter relationship in the turbulent 1960’s era of revolution.

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April 22, 2010

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon

Written for a thinking reader, treats you like you are intelligent, though he could have used a bit of editing to cut some of the...

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April 22, 2010

All God’s Children Need Traveling Shoes by Maya Angelou **** (of 4)

Using all her gifts as a poet, Angelou recounts a period in the 1950s when she joined a community of ex-patriot African Americans in Ghana...

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April 1, 2010

Typhoon by Charles Cummings ** (of 4)

A seriously mediocre suspense story about a hard-drinking, chain-smoking, young Mi-6 Agent doing secret agent stuff for God and Country in the waning days before...

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February 12, 2010

The Source by James Michener ***** (of 5)

Written in the 1960s, The Source still stands as a definitive work on the history of the Jews, that is if you accept the plot...

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