Category: Book Reviews

August 23, 2010

Firewall by Henning Mankell *** (of 4)

What’s not to like about a depressed, grumpy 50-year-old detective fed up with being overworked and being surrounded by nincompoops? Let’s just say I could...

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July 27, 2010

Soldier’s Heart by Elizabeth Samet ** (of 4)

It’s a fascinating insight into West Point. Samet, a civilian professor of English literature wrestles with what to teach plebes. Looking at a sea of...

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July 26, 2010

97 Orchard by Jane Ziegelman ** (of 4)

It’s an interesting thesis. Jane Ziegelman, a food historian working at the Tenement Museum traces the food history of five immigrant families that settled on...

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July 20, 2010

The Imperfectionists ** (of 4)

An English language newspaper based in Rome is staffed by a bunch of losers: men with four ex-wives, women with no self-esteem, Asian over-achievers with...

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July 20, 2010

See Under: Love by David Grossman ** (of 4)

I wish I could have followed the story of Momik, a nine-year-old son of Holocaust survivors trying to make sense of the adults who have...

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July 16, 2010

Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick **** (of 4)

I turned pages as fast as I could shaking my head in disbelief with each new revelation. North Korea is the last totalitarian communist dictatorship...

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July 15, 2010

Soul Mountain by Gao Xingjian

Nobel Prize in Literature

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July 15, 2010

Schlepping Through the Alps: My Search for Austria’s Jewish Past with Its Last Wandering Shepherd by Sam Apple

A journalist who traveled from childhood memories to adult memories from urban NY to Austria’s highest peaks in search of Hans Breuer, Yiddish folk singer...

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July 15, 2010