Posted in Authors, Book Reviews, General, Literature/Fiction, tagged Alientejo Blue, Authors, Books, fiction, Monica Ali, Novels, Writers on March 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Alentejo Blue, by Monica Ali…I give it Five Stars!
From the author of Brick Lane, Monica Ali brings us her latest work, and within her prose we see her brilliance shine through.
What is it like to live in a village, with familial lines that reach back generations? We see some of the answers to that question [...]
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Posted in Authors, Book Reviews, General, Literature/Fiction, tagged Adria Bernardi, Authors, Books, family fiction, fiction, generational sagas, historical fiction, Italian Immigrants, Italian Immigrants Southwest, Italy, Novels, Open Work by Adria Bernardi, Writers on March 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Open Work, by Adria Bernardi…I Give it Five Stars!
Three generations of closely knit Italian families are depicted in Bernardi’s novel, Open Work. She has woven a story of the experience of the Italian immigrant in the barren desert and coal mines of New Mexico, and of those who remain behind in the homeland and mountains [...]
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Posted in Authors, Book Reviews, General, Literature/Fiction, tagged adult fairy tales, Authors, Books, fiction, Literature, Male Authors, Novels, novels about good and evil, Paul Coelho, stories, The Devil and Miss Prynn, Writers on March 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Devil and Miss Prym, by Paulo Coelho…I give it Five Stars!
Paulo Coelho’s novel touches on Good and Evil, and what the difference is between the two, and/or even the similarities. It might read like an adult fairy tale, but that does not lessen the intensity, or diminish the ability to provoke thought about the [...]
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Posted in Authors, Book Reviews, General, Non-Fiction, tagged Arthur Vanderbilt, book critique, Book Reviews, Books, critique, Gardening in Eden, gardening memoir, gardening tips, gardens, glory of gardening, natural beauty, Non-Fiction, reviews, stories on March 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Gardening in Eden, by Arthur Vanderbilt…I give it Five Stars!
Arthur Vanderbilt manages to bring us a book that is filled with the glory of gardening. With delightful and descriptive word-paintings (that fill our senses with tapestries of color, textures, seasons, scents and sounds), we can visualize and feel the magical beauty of Vanderbilt’s garden, from [...]
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Posted in Authors, Book Reviews, General, Non-Fiction, tagged An Uncommon Friendship, anti-semitism, Auschwitz, Authors, Bernat Rosner, Books, Emigrate, Frederic C. Tubach, Friendship, German author, Holocaust Atrocities, Holocaust/Genocide, Immigrants, Jew, Jew Wishes, Jewish, Jewish Author, Jewish Life, Jews, Judaism, memoir, Nazi Germany, Non-Fiction, Opposite sides of the Holocaust, Refugees, Religion, Religious, Sally Patterson Tubach, Shoah, Spirituality, War, World War II, Writers, WWII Nazi Germany on March 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
An Uncommon Friendship: From Opposite Sides of the Holocaust, by Bernat Rosner and Frederic C. Tubach, with Sally Patterson Tubach, is an extremely powerful, and poignant memoir, written in a concise manner, with clarity and sensitivity. The memoir (really two memoirs in one) parallels the lives of Rosner and Tubach, from their childhoods through their [...]
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