July 14, 2010
Diary of a Bad Year by J.M. Coetzee
Made someone’s Must-Read list. Newsweek, I think.
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July 13, 2010
Fun Home by Alison Bechdel *** (of 4)
A coming of age memoir of a girl discovering her lesbianism at the same moment she is learning that her obsessive-compulisive, tyrannical father was a...
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The Good Soldiers by David Finkel **** (of 4)
David Finkel was embedded with the 2-16 on the outskirts of Bahgdad during Bush’s 2007 surge. He journals their work for one year. The troops...
Read More about The Good Soldiers by David Finkel **** (of 4) June 21, 2010
East of Eden by John Steinbeck **** (of 4)
A retelling of the stories of Adam, Eve, Cain, and Abel transposed to three generations of two families living mostly in Salinas, California during the...
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Detective Story by Imre Kertesz *** (of 4)
A novella about the abuse of dictatorial power in an unnamed South American country. Secret police contrive accusations against a Jewish store owner because they...
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Crabwalk by Gunter Gras *** (of 4)
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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The Book Thief by Markus Zusak **** (of 4)
The character of 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...
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Betrothed by S.Y. Agnon *** (of 4)
A wonderful little novella that I listened to on tape about a botanist who arrives in Palestine in 1909 (I think) is quickly surrounded by...
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A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam by Neil Sheehan **** (of 4)
This book is a commitment. It contains seven interior books, 150 pages apiece. It is worthwhile, however, for anyone who cares about the hubris of...
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The Help by Kathryn Stockett **** (of 4)
The characters in this book – racist, southern white women in the early sixties and the black maids that work for them – are so...
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