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| I loved this book! It is the story of a family of avant-garde performance artists who create "events" in public, aiming to inject some absurdity into the lives of unsuspecting bystanders. They believe that "good art" can only be spontaneous. Unfor...more | |
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| Michael Cunningham is well-known for his deliberate, descriptive, lyrical writing that seems to illustrate its subtleties in plot and atmosphere so perfectly. There are no wasted words in his books. There is also some sort of nascent or lingering hom...more | |
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| Thinking of this book, I keep returning the title of Joan Didion's collected works, "We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live." For Julian Barnes, or more appropriately his narrator Tony, this statement wouldn't be an expression of compulsion or d...more | |
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| This book opens with the description of a Rapture-like event, where a percentage of the people on Earth simply vanish. There is no explanation of why or how this happened, it just did. Families become torn apart, cults form, and everyone is still dea...more | |
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SUMMER READING REVIEW: "Loved this book. Very true to light portrayal of parent-child relationships, teenage behaviors, and Russian immigrants' speech patterns." -Alice Kintisch
I really liked this book. Vaclav and Lena are about 10 years old and de...more |
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| This is the story of Esch, who at 15 finds out she is pregnant. She lives in poverty-stricken Mississippi with her brothers and father. Her brother Skeetah is preoccupied with his pit-bull, China and her pups. Her brother Randall wants to get into ba...more | |
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| While this is not my favorite of Jeanette Winterson's books, I still read it in a single (long) sitting. It is the story of the love triangle/three-way relationship among two physicists and a poet. Alice, while already having an affair with Jove, a m...more | |
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| After Dark describes the events of one night in Tokyo, from midnight to around 7am. The characters include Mari, a young woman who spends her night in a Denny's reading a book, a trombone player who claims to know her, the female manager of a seedy "...more | |
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Tea Obreht uses folklore, magic, and whimsy to relate the richness of Balkan culture as well as the sadness of its recent history. For fans of Salman Rushdie, Markus Zusak and Yann Martel. |
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