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by Paul Fussell

Did you read his CLASS and BAD? Two of my favorites. Also his ex-wife's bitchy memoir of their marriage, MY KITCHEN WARS. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57482400 The Elegance of the Hedgehog (Paperback) by Muriel Barbery
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Loving this so far... ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51130353 to: Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews 1430-1950 (Paperback) by Mark Mazower
The city now called Thessaloniki already had me completely fascinated before I read this book. I'd visited once in 1994 and still dream of going back. When I do make it there again, it will be a hundred times more interesting to me for having read this book. The subtitle "City of Ghosts" will feel especially apt if you ever go there to experience the modern, thoroughly Greek, city, and consider that until the 20th century it was hardly Greek at all. A cosmopolitan mix of religion and nationality that bears little relation to what one sees now. You'd have been as likely to hear Spanish or Ladhino on the street as you would Greek, or maybe Turkish. The book is readable and fascinating throughout, with some great pics. I had the wildly unexpected pleasure of meeting the author (and his charming Egyptian wife, also a scholar) at a party in Boston. A nice, normal guy, in case an author's niceness matters to you. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50602174 to: Diane Arbus: A Biography (Paperback) by Patricia Bosworth
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