By Edith Wharton
I might have seen the movie on TV at some point, but I can't say anything looked familiar when reading the book. It was quite interesting and fairly easy read, with an interesting twist in the end. [181 pp.]
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Sunday, June 3, 2012
Alma [Hebrew]
By Roni Eshkol
I feel ambivalent about this book. Maybe it's because I am not used to fantasy books, certainly not Hebrew ones. On the one hand, it was a bit annoying: the weird word endings, the weird names of creatures that are similar to known creatures, but are not the same, and the black and white in which everything seems to be drawn. On the other hand, once you get used to all of this, it's quite fascinating. I found myself drawn to reading it. The ending seemed a bit like a telenovela ending, but I should not give it away. [463 pp.]
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I feel ambivalent about this book. Maybe it's because I am not used to fantasy books, certainly not Hebrew ones. On the one hand, it was a bit annoying: the weird word endings, the weird names of creatures that are similar to known creatures, but are not the same, and the black and white in which everything seems to be drawn. On the other hand, once you get used to all of this, it's quite fascinating. I found myself drawn to reading it. The ending seemed a bit like a telenovela ending, but I should not give it away. [463 pp.]
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Saturday, May 19, 2012
Luminous Airplanes
By Paul La Farge
An interesting story of a person haunted by the ghost of his father, whom he's never met, and how it affected his life and decisions. Set in the year that spans somewhere between the 2000 election and 9/11, but goes back to the person's childhood and beyond. [245 pp.]
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An interesting story of a person haunted by the ghost of his father, whom he's never met, and how it affected his life and decisions. Set in the year that spans somewhere between the 2000 election and 9/11, but goes back to the person's childhood and beyond. [245 pp.]
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Sunday, May 6, 2012
On the Divinity of Second Chances
By Kara McLaren
A very nice read told from the point of view of almost each and every character, and follows a few months in the life of a family that seems to be on the brink of falling apart. Here too, as in Now is the Time To Open Your Heart, there is an element of new-agey type of thing, but again, it is in good taste (or maybe I am new-agey myself?). [352 pp.]
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A very nice read told from the point of view of almost each and every character, and follows a few months in the life of a family that seems to be on the brink of falling apart. Here too, as in Now is the Time To Open Your Heart, there is an element of new-agey type of thing, but again, it is in good taste (or maybe I am new-agey myself?). [352 pp.]
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Wednesday, April 25, 2012
Shadows on the Rock
By Willa Cather
A neat little book about early settlement in Quebec. Interesting to think about what people did back then, how they lived, and what they thought. Of course, it was written in the 1930's, which adds another historical dimension. [229 pp.]
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A neat little book about early settlement in Quebec. Interesting to think about what people did back then, how they lived, and what they thought. Of course, it was written in the 1930's, which adds another historical dimension. [229 pp.]
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Sunday, April 15, 2012
Now is the time to open your heart
By Alice Walker
Actually, the time to update this blog was more than 3 weeks ago, when I finished reading this book. It was so long ago, I can only comment on my general impression of the book, which was pretty good. I didn't expect this kind of almost new-agey feel to an Alice Walker book, but it did have some of that, although not in an obnoxious way. [240 pp.]
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Actually, the time to update this blog was more than 3 weeks ago, when I finished reading this book. It was so long ago, I can only comment on my general impression of the book, which was pretty good. I didn't expect this kind of almost new-agey feel to an Alice Walker book, but it did have some of that, although not in an obnoxious way. [240 pp.]
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Sunday, March 4, 2012
Their Eyes Were Watching God
By Zora Neale Hurston
A beautiful love story that took me a while to finish (though I did finish it a week ago), mostly because a lot of it was written in dialect. [240 pp.]
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A beautiful love story that took me a while to finish (though I did finish it a week ago), mostly because a lot of it was written in dialect. [240 pp.]
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