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July 19, 2016
Book review: The Lost Civilization of Suolucidir by Susan Daitch
The Lost Civilization of Suolucidir
by Susan Daitch
Jul 19, 2016 · David Cooper's review
bookshelves: international-settings, jewish, post-modern, historical-fiction, mysteries, cerebral-fiction
"After reading The Lost Civilization of Suolucidir readers will want to start over again to see what details they may have missed the first time through, and yes, this richly crafted and handsomely written novel rewards rereading. It also demonstrates that an ironic post-modern novel of ideas can be suspenseful and include complex characters readers can care about while feeling powerless to alter their fates." -- from my review of The Lost Civilization of Soulucidir by Susan Daitch in New York Journal of Books
Book review: The Lost Civilization of Suolucidir by Susan Daitch
The Lost Civilization of Suolucidir
by Susan Daitch
Jul 19, 2016 · David Cooper‘s review
bookshelves: international-settings, jewish, post-modern, historical-fiction, mysteries, cerebral-fiction
“After reading The Lost Civilization of Suolucidir readers will want to start over again to see what details they may have missed the first time through, and yes, this richly crafted and handsomely written novel rewards rereading. It also demonstrates that an ironic post-modern novel of ideas can be suspenseful and include complex characters readers can care about while feeling powerless to alter their fates.” — from my review of The Lost Civilization of Soulucidir by Susan Daitch in New York Journal of Books
Filed under: book reviews Tagged: book reviews, books, fiction, historical fiction, mysteries, New York Journal of Books, post-modern, Susan Daitch 
June 8, 2016
Israeli books: A.B. Yehoshua’s The Extra features a child-free heroine
“On the surface the new novel is about feminism and the right of women to choose not to bear children. But an underlying theme is whether liberal nationalism is an oxymoron, whether the rights of the individual (the essence of liberalism) can be reconciled with the needs of the nation.” — from my New York Journal of Books review of The Extra by Abraham B. Yehoshua. For an excerpt from the novel see my examiner article.
Filed under: book reviews, examiner articles Tagged: a.b. yehoshua, book reviews, books, foreign literature in translation, Hebrew literature, Israeli fiction, novels
Israeli books: A.B. Yehoshua's The Extra features a child-free heroine
"On the surface the new novel is about feminism and the right of women to choose not to bear children. But an underlying theme is whether liberal nationalism is an oxymoron, whether the rights of the individual (the essence of liberalism) can be reconciled with the needs of the nation." -- from my New York Journal of Books review of The Extra by Abraham B. Yehoshua. For an excerpt from the novel see my examiner article.
May 30, 2016
Jewish books: in Max’s Diamonds family secrets stalk its ambitious protagonist
" Max’s Diamonds , Jay Greenfield ’s debut novel published last week by New York publisher Chickadee Prince Books, is a guilty pleasure, a book I enjoyed and could barely put down for its suspenseful serpentine plot despite its pedestrian and occasionally heavy-handed prose." -- From my examiner article . Also see my New York Journal of Books review , which concludes "with Max's Diamonds readers are rewarded with a fun and absorbing read whose fortuitous May publication date makes it a felicitous beach or airplane book."
Jewish books: in Max’s Diamonds family secrets stalk its ambitious protagonist
“Max’s Diamonds, Jay Greenfield’s debut novel published last week by New York publisher Chickadee Prince Books, is a guilty pleasure, a book I enjoyed and could barely put down for its suspenseful serpentine plot despite its pedestrian and occasionally heavy-handed prose.” — From my examiner article. Also see my New York Journal of Books review, which concludes “with Max’s Diamonds readers are rewarded with a fun and absorbing read whose fortuitous May publication date makes it a felicitous beach or airplane book.”
Filed under: book reviews, examiner articles Tagged: beach books, book reviews, books, examiner.com, historical fiction, Jay Greenfield, Jewish books, Max's Diamonds, New York Journal of Books, novels
May 11, 2016
My poetry book Glued To The Sky is now an audiobook
My poetry book Glued To The Sky is now also an audiobook. Glued To The Sky includes both narrative and lyric poems concerning group identity and gender issues in a wide variety of forms. Glued To The Sky was published by PulpBits in 2003. Sadly, PulpBits went out of business in 2007. An ebook version of Glued To The Sky in the pdf format can be downloaded at davidfcooper.com
Filed under: Uncategorized Tagged: "Glued To The Sky", audiobooks, books, david cooper, dramatic poetry, ebooks, lyric poetry, narrative poetry, poetry, poetry books
My poetry book Glued To The Sky is now an audiobook
May 10, 2016
Books: Charles Bock and Jennifer S. Brown portray Manhattan in earlier eras
"At first glance two historical novels published last week have little in common. Where Charles Bock’s second novel Alice and Oliver is a starkly realistic and unflinching portrait of a marriage undergoing trial by health crisis in 1990s New York, Jennifer S. Brown’s debut novel Modern Girls , on the other hand, is a warm, heimisheh tale of two generations of women in a Jewish immigrant family on Manhattan’s Lower East Side in the 1930s whose opportunities and choices were limited by their gender." -- from my examiner article. Also see my reviews of the two books in New York Journal of Books .
Books: Charles Bock and Jennifer S. Brown portray Manhattan in earlier eras
“At first glance two historical novels published last week have little in common. Where Charles Bock’s second novel Alice and Oliver is a starkly realistic and unflinching portrait of a marriage undergoing trial by health crisis in 1990s New York, Jennifer S. Brown’s debut novel Modern Girls, on the other hand, is a warm, heimisheh tale of two generations of women in a Jewish immigrant family on Manhattan’s Lower East Side in the 1930s whose opportunities and choices were limited by their gender.” — from my 4/13/16 examiner article. Also see my reviews of the two books in New York Journal of Books .
Filed under: book reviews, examiner articles, Uncategorized Tagged: Alice & Oliver, book reviews, books, cancerfiction, Charles Bock, fiction, health crisis fiction, historical fiction, Jennifer S. Brown, Jewish-American fiction, Modern Girls, novels
