Category: Book Reviews

April 29, 2010

The Mysterious Edge of the Heroic World by E.L. Konigsburg **** (of 4)

Ostensibly a yound adult book, but like all of Konigsburg’s works, her protagonists may be young adults, but her themes are fully matured. Man, can...

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April 29, 2010

Middlesex by Peter Eugenides ** (of 4)

Both Sue and LEP say this book is an excellent story, my prerequisite for any book worth reading and go figure I couldn’t finish it....

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April 29, 2010

Mila 18 by Leon Uris **** (of 4)

One of my absolute favorite books about the Warsaw ghetto uprising. A real page turner with wonderful characterizations.

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April 29, 2010

Mercy by Toni Morrison **** (of 4)

A novella told mostly in the first person perspectives of an enslaved African woman, her daughter, a trader from the north, his wife, a Native...

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April 29, 2010

Martyr’s Crossing, by Amy Wilentz ** (of 4)

Not great writing, but very informative about the checkpoints in Middle East before the Second Intifada made them even worse.

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April 29, 2010

Martin Dressler: The tale of an American Dreamer, by Steven Millhauser *** (of 4)

The title character, Martin Dressler, is the son of German immigrants in New York City who’s dreams and successes coincide with the burgeoning of the...

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April 29, 2010

The March by E.L. Doctorow **** (of 4)

The march is General William Tecumsah Sherman’s subjugation of the confederacy as seen through the eyes of carefully crafted, wholly believable, fictitious characters: freed-slaves, plantation...

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April 29, 2010

Maps for Lost Lovers by Nadeem Aslam **** of 4

Islamic Pakistani immigrants struggle with isolation from their homeland and one another. Aslam’s writing is so replete with metaphor and cultural insight that every page...

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April 29, 2010

Lying Awake by Mark Salzman ** (of 4)

A short novel, or long exercise, about a Carmelite nun in an LA cloister. Nun meets God, nun loses God, nun finds medicine, nun finds...

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April 29, 2010

Life of Pi, by Yann Martel **** (of 4)

I loved it. A great piece of storytelling. Sure, there were plenty of bits worth analyzing-science vs. religion, first world vs. third world, true vs....

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