Lisa Levchuk (Author of Everything Beautiful in the World)

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The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
by David Mitchell

read in May, 2012

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A Thousand Sisters: My Journey into the Worst Place on Earth to Be a Woman
by Lisa Shannon

read in October, 2011

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Thought it was a lot better than "Three Cups of Tea."

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Silence: A Thirteenth-Century French Romance
by Sarah Roche-Mahdi

read in August, 2011

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Narrative of a girl raised as a boy so that she may inherit property. The strange part is that while the book has a very positive feminist perspective, the story is peppered with commentary on the general depravity of women. The main character (boy-g...more

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The Luzhin Defense
by Vladimir Nabokov

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Judge On Trial
by Ivan Klíma

read in August, 2011

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The Glass Castle
by Jeannette Walls

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I bought this book awhile ago and just finished it. Not sure, I might hate this book. The narrator's parents are two creative and intellectual adults who choose to live a wacky, homeless existence without basic necessities like food and heat. Along t...more

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Portraits of a Marriage
by Sándor Márai

read in August, 2011

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This book was quite thrilling despite the fact that nothing really happened. The story of a marriage (and so much more) told from three (actually four if you count the epilogue) perspectives.

On Relationships
"But then time passes, a year, or three ye...more This book was quite thrilling despite the fact that nothing really happened. The story of a marriage (and so much more) told from three (actually four if you count the epilogue) perspectives.

On Relationships
"But then time passes, a year, or three years, or two weeks -- have you noticed how love, like death, has nothing to do with clocks or calendars? -- and the grand plan to which both the woman and the man have agreed is not carried through, or only partially carried through, not quite as either had imagined. And so the man and woman part, with anger or with indifference, and once again they set out, full of hope ready to start again with someone new. Alternately, they might stay together out of sheer exhaustion, draining the lifeblood from each other, and so sicken, killing each other little by little before dying....Isn't it just desire, always, eternally, simply desire, that occasionally, for some brief interval, is incarnated in a particular body? and this strange, artificial excitement, the fever in which we live: might that not have been nature's fully conscious way of preventing men and women feeling utterly alone?"

On Grief
"The person is already buried and you still feel nothing. You go about in mourning with a ceremonial solemnity...On the outside you behave one way, properly somber and funereal; but inside, you are astonished to note, you feel absolutely nothing, at most a kind of guilty satisfaction and relief... Then one day, much later, maybe after a year, when the dead one has long decomposed, you are walking along and suddenly you feel dizzy and have to lean against the wall because the event has finally gotten through to you: the feeling that tied you to the dead one. The meaning of death."

On Arists
"Artists are the people who can really help you in times of trouble, the only people, it seems...a long time ago the artist, the priest, and the doctor were all one man. Anyone who knew anything was an artist."

On America
"Because, no good denying it, here where people have everything they need for the good life, it's as if happiness -- I mean real, joyful, ear-to-ear-grinning happiness -- simply escapes them. Over at Macy's nearby you can really buy anything you need in this world. You can even get a lighter that never needs new fuel. It comes in a case. But you can't buy happiness, not even in the drugs department."(less)

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By Night in Chile
by Roberto Bolaño

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Have no idea how to talk about this book in terms of stars. I admired 2666 so much and picked up both this book and The Savage Detectives (which I plan to read soon). By Night in Chile is a monologue (no paragraphs breaks at all) -- the jacket says i...more

Lisa made a comment on her review of Judge On Trial

"Thanks for recommending, Tereza.

"He also knew by now that one would never find freedom in this world -- however perfect were the laws and however grea...more "

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Lisa gave to: The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell read in May, 2012	My rating:
May 19, 2012 08:12am
Lisa added the Goodreads iPhone app
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Lisa gave to: A Thousand Sisters: My Journey into the Worst Place on Earth to Be a Woman by Lisa Shannon read in October, 2011	My rating:
Thought it was a lot better than "Three Cups of Tea."
Oct 01, 2011 05:03pm · see review
Lisa gave to: Silence: A Thirteenth-Century French Romance by Sarah Roche-Mahdi read in August, 2011	My rating:
Narrative of a girl raised as a boy so that she may inherit property. The strange part is that while the book has a very positive feminist perspective, the story is peppered with commentary on the general depravity of women. The main character (boy-g...more
Aug 23, 2011 08:41pm · see review
Lisa is currently reading: The Luzhin Defense by Vladimir Nabokov	My rating:
Aug 21, 2011 07:28pm
Lisa gave to: Judge On Trial by Ivan Klíma read in August, 2011	My rating:
Aug 21, 2011 06:37am
Lisa added: The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls	My rating:
I bought this book awhile ago and just finished it. Not sure, I might hate this book. The narrator's parents are two creative and intellectual adults who choose to live a wacky, homeless existence without basic necessities like food and heat. Along t...more
Aug 18, 2011 12:49pm · see review
Lisa gave to: Portraits of a Marriage by Sándor Márai read in August, 2011	My rating:
This book was quite thrilling despite the fact that nothing really happened. The story of a marriage (and so much more) told from three (actually four if you count the epilogue) perspectives. On Relationships "But then time passes, a year, or three ye...more
Aug 07, 2011 06:14pm · see review
Lisa added: By Night in Chile by Roberto Bolaño	My rating:
Have no idea how to talk about this book in terms of stars. I admired 2666 so much and picked up both this book and The Savage Detectives (which I plan to read soon). By Night in Chile is a monologue (no paragraphs breaks at all) -- the jacket says i...more
Jul 30, 2011 04:59am · see review
Lisa made a comment on her review of Judge On Trial "Thanks for recommending, Tereza. "He also knew by now that one would never find freedom in this world -- however perfect were the laws and however grea...more "
Jul 25, 2011 07:03am · see review

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