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Stenosis Update
So its been 9 months since my stenosis produced the painful and disabling symptoms I shared earlier. I’m pleased to report that I am mostly back to normal, other than being measurably weaker than I was in January. This remarkable
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| Set in a postwar, 1950's Japan still under occupation and as yet undisturbed by the tumult of the coming Sixties, The Sound of the Mountain meanders thoughtfully within the consciousness of Shingo, a man in his early sixties trying and failing to rec ...more | |
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| Dara Horn is enraged. And grateful. These contrasting feelings drive these essays in which Horn makes the point that Judaism--alive, active, engaged Judaism, practiced by alive Jews-- is invisible. We are a tiny people. The vast majority of people, h ...more | |
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| In this subtle, inwardly focused and emotional novel, Richard Powers has crafted an extraordinary paean to familial love. Robin is a boy somewhere on the autism spectrum. He is obsessive, manic, yet a keen observer of all that surrounds him. His fath ...more | |
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| This lovely novel is based on an interesting premise. An older artist, facing the end of his life, writes a brief, true account of his current self-evaluation in a notebook he titles "The Authenticity Project." He leaves the notebook in a cafe, and i ...more | |
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| This entertaining, engaging, attention-demanding novel excavates the passions and insecurities of a young man trying to establish himself as an artist in a world he finds both intimidating and seductive. The young poet narrates his own story; a recip ...more | |
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| A bit more formulaic than other of her books I've read, Parable of the Sower is set in a climate-denuded world where the rule of law has been replaced by the power of the fittest. Still well peppered with themes of grief, racism, classism and male vi ...more | |
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| In this book three friends negotiating the transition from their twenties to full adulthood alternately alienate, depend upon, test, and challenge each other as they negotiate love, relationship and labor in a world that they only recently have becom ...more | |
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| In “On the Heels of a Prophet,” my dear friend Mady Schutzman has written a wonderfully fun and engaging set of interlinked stories. The back cover sets a goal of forging fiction from comedy, taking core elements of a joke—“disjunction, paradox, inco ...more | |
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For those who share an interest in reading and discussing Jewish books of all sorts. The basic requirement for the books is that they have a Jewish th ...more
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The San Francisco Bicycle Coalition's list of bike & livable streets books. As part of Bike Month in May, we're meeting up on Thu, May 29 to share t ...more
