Posted in Authors, Book Reviews, General, Non-Fiction, tagged anti-semitism, Authors, Biography & Autobiography, Books, Elie Wiesel, Genocide, History, History - 20th Century, History - Holocaust, History - Modern, History - Shoah, Holocaust, Holocaust stories, Jew, Jewish, Jewish Authors, Jewish Culture, Jewish Life, Jewish Society, Jews, Jews-Post World War II, Jews-Pre World War II, Judaism, Legends of Our Time, Nazis, Non-Fiction, Religion, Religious, Shoah, Spirituality, stories, World War II, Writers, WWII on April 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Elie Wiesel is the narrator in “Legends of Our Time” an amazing book of stories and essays, written through doubt, through clarity, through knowledge, through self-analyzing, through questioning God, and through events before, during and after the Holocaust. His experiences are compelling in their insights, and his assessments are filled with overwhelming acuteness.
“Nothing had changed. [...]
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Posted in Book Reviews, General, Literature/Fiction, tagged Authors, Books, Female Authors, female writers, Joyce Carol Oates, mother-daughter relationships, Novels, Writers on April 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Missing Mom, by Joyce Carol Oates…I Give it Five Stars!
Joyce Carole Oates never ceases to amaze me, not only with her story lines, but the depth of the characters in her novels. In this tribute to her own mother, who is no longer living, Oates has gone one step beyond herself, and given us insight [...]
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Posted in Authors, General, Literature/Fiction, tagged Authors, Books, John Crowley, Lord Byron's Novel, Male Authors, male writers, Novels, Writers on April 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Lord Byron’s Novel : The Evening Land by John Crowley, a Novel…I give it Five Stars!
Novel-Within-a-Novel, October 2, 2005 I like the novel-within-a-novel aspect of this well-written book. The author, John Crowley, manages to weave a tapestry that manages to move with ease from one generation down to the next.
Crowley gives us imagery, that we [...]
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