Lambrusco, by Ellen Cooney is an excellent and compelling study of life during the Nazi invasion of Italy, told by the protaganist, Lucia Fantini, widow of Aldo. It is a very descriptive novel, filled with fantastic characters, all varied in thought, physical appearance and personality.
At times, due to the content and amount of individuals, it [...]
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Lambrusco
Posted in Authors, Book Reviews, General, Literature/Fiction, tagged anti-semitism, Authors, Books, Ellen Cooney, Fascist Italy, fiction, historical fiction, Italian American writers, Italian Partisans, Italian Resistance WWII, Italy WWII, Lambrusco, Lambrusco by Ellen Cooney, Novels, Religion, Writers, WWII on October 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Four Girls From Berlin
Posted in Authors, Book Reviews, General, Non-Fiction, tagged American writers, Authors, Books, female writers, Holocaust, Jews, Judaidm Jew, memoirs, Non-Fiction, Shoah, Writers, WWII memoirs on October 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Four Girls From Berlin: A True Story of Friendship That Defied the Holocaust, by Marianne Meyerhoff, is a beautiful memoir of courage and friendship under horrendous circumstances. The story is about Lotte Meyerhoff who was a German Jew, and was the author’s mother. It is an affecting story of how she survived the [...]
The Zookeeper’s Wife, by Diane Ackerman
Posted in General, tagged anti-semitism, Antonina Zabinkski, Authors, Diane Ackerman, Female Authors, female writers, Genocide, History, History of WWII Warsaw, Holocaust and genocide, Holocaust and Polish Jews, Holocaust diaries, Holocaust history, Holocaust partisans, Holocaust/Genocide, inspiring non-fiction, Jan and Antonina Zabinski, Jan Zabinski, Jew, Jewish, Jewish cultture, Jewish Genocide, Jewish Ghetto, Jewish history, Jewish Life, Jewish Partisans, Jewish Religion, Jewish rescuers, Jewish Survivors, Jews, Judaism, liberators, memoirs, Nazis, Non-Fiction, Poland Zoo, Polish History, Religion, Religious Discrimination, Shoah, Shoah History, Survivor accounts, Survivor stories, Warsaw history, Warsaw Zoo, Writers, WWII, WWII diaries, Zabinskis, Zookeepers, Zoos, Zoos of Warsaw on October 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Zookeeper’s Wife: A War Story, by Diane Ackerman is an amazing book on so many levels. From incredible word-images, to profound scenarios, Ackerman takes us on a journey through Warsaw, Poland, through the eyes of two zookeepers, Jan and Antonina Zabrinski. Jan was the director of the Warsaw Zoo, Antonina was [...]
The English Disease, by Joseph Skibell
Posted in Authors, Book Reviews, General, Literature/Fiction, tagged American writers, Auschwitz novels, Authors, Books, Depression, Familial Relationships, Family, fiction Literature, Freud, Genocide, Gentiles, Georgia writers, Holocaust/Genocide, Husband and Wife Relationships, Inter-faith marriages, Jew, Jewish, Jewish Assimilation, Jewish Assimilation Post-World War II, Jewish Culture, Jewish Life, Jews, Jews and assimilation, Joseph Skibell, Judaism, Jung, living authors, living people, living writers, Loss, Love, Melancholia, melancholy, Novels, novels on therapy, Religion, self-loathing, self-loathing Jew, The English Disease, therapy, Writers, writers born in Texas on October 24, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The English Disease, by Joseph Skibell, is a story revolving around Charles Belski, a learned man who is a musicologist (one who studies the history and science of music). He has what is known as English Disease, which in today’s environment is known as depression or melancholia. The dilemmas in his life seem to [...]
2008 National Book Award Fiction Finalists
Posted in Authors, General, Literature/Fiction, tagged 2008 National Book Award, adult Literature, Aleksandar Hemon, American authors, Authors, book news, Books, Female Authors, female writers, fiction, General Literature, Home, Jewish, Jewish books, Literature, Literature news, Los Angeles authors, Male Authors, male writers, Marilynne Robonson, National Book Foundation, News, Novels, Peter Mattiessen, Poetry, poetry news, Poets, Rachel Kushner, Religion, Salvatore Scibona, Sarajevo authors, Shadow Country, Telex from Cuba, The End, The Lazarus Project, Writers, Young People's Literature on October 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The National Book Foundation has announced the finalists for the National Book Award. The authors in the fiction category are:
Aleksandar Hemon for his book, The Lazarus Project. It is a book I have on my stack of “to-read” books.
Rachel Kushner has been nominated for her book, Telex From Cuba.
Peter Matthiessen for his [...]
French Author Wins Nobel Prize for Literature
Posted in Authors, General, Literature/Fiction, tagged Authors, fiction Nobel Prize, French authors, French writers, Jean-Mairegustave Le Clezio, Literature, male writers, Writers on October 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
According to the Associated Press, “French novelist Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio has won the 2008 Nobel Prize in Literature“.
He will receive the award, when it is handed out on December 10, 2008, in Stockholm, Sweden.
Congratulations to a brilliant author!
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Book Diva
Dawn, by Elie Wiesel
Posted in Authors, Book Reviews, General, Literature/Fiction, tagged anti-semitism, Authors, Book Reviews, Books, Dawn, Dawn by Elie Wiesel, Elie Wiesel, General Literature, Holocaust Literature, Jew, Jewish, Jewish Authors, Jewish Writers, Jews, Literature, Male Authors, male writers, Novels, stories, Writers on October 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Dawn, by Elie Wiesel is an excellent book that examines many issues, especially on good and evil, forgiveness, spirituality and identity.
“There are not a thousand ways to be a killer; either a man is one or he isn’t. He who has killed one man alone, is a killer for life…the executioner’s mask will always follow [...]
Does the Soul Survive?
Posted in Authors, Book Reviews, General, Non-Fiction, tagged American Jews and afterlife, American writers, Authors, belief in past lives, belief in soul survival, Books, death and dying, Does the Soul Survive?, Elie Kaplan Spitz, Jew, Jewish, Jewish Authors, Jewish belief in past lives, Jewish belief in soul survival, Jewish beliefs, Jewish Customs, Jewish education, Jewish learning, Jewish Life, Jewish Practices, Jewish Religion, Jewish Traditions, Jewish Writers, Jews, Judaism and afterlife, Judaism and the soul, male writers, Non-Fiction, past life beliefs, Rabbi Spitz, Religion, religion and dying, religion and Judaism, religion and soul survival, Religious Journeys, soul survival, souls, spiritual books, spiritual education, spiritual life, spiritual writing, spirituality and death, Spirituality books, Writers on October 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“Does the Soul Survive?” (A Jewish Journey to Belief in Afterlife, Past Lives & Living With Purpose) is Rabbi Elie Kaplan Spitz’s extremely thought-provoking book. We travel with him on his steps towards awareness.
Does the Soul Survive? is a compilation of experiences from firsthand accounts that were told to him by others, from experiences his [...]
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