The Novel, Plum Wine, turned out to be less than what I had expected. I found the story line to be slow going, and thought the characters lacked depth. It took all I could to get through the book, without putting it down and not continuing on.
Angela Davis-Gardner’s book, filled with love and [...]
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Plum Wine, by Angela Davis-Gardner
Posted in Authors, Book Reviews, General, Literature/Fiction, tagged Angela Davis-Gardner, Authors, Books, Novels, Plum Wine on December 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
People of the Book, by Geraldine Brooks
Posted in Authors, Book Reviews, General, Literature/Fiction, tagged anti-semitism, Authors, Books, Female Authors, fiction, Genocide, Geraldine Brooks, Haggadahs, historical fiction, Jew, Jewish, Jewish Culture, Jewish Historical Books, Jewish Holidays, Jewish Life, Jews, Judaism, Novels, novels The Inquisition, Passover Haggadahs, People of the Book, Pesach Haggadahs, Religion, Religious Books, Sarajevo Haggadah, Sarajevo history, Sarajevo siege, Writers on December 16, 2008 | 1 Comment »
People of the Book by Pulitzer Prize author Geraldine Brooks is an incredible novel. Although it is fiction, the content is filled with historical information and fact. People of the Book is based on the Jewish Religious book the Sarajevo Haggadah, and its survival through the centuries.
The Sarajevo Haggadah is a factual manuscript/volume, [...]
In the Image, by Dara Horn
Posted in Authors, Book Reviews, General, Literature/Fiction, tagged Authors, Books, Dara Horn, In the Image, Novels on December 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“Accidents of fate are rarely fatal accidents, but once in a while they are.”
In The Image is one of those books that evolves through the characters’ coming of age, journeying towards peace and acceptance, and sojourning towards spiritual identity. One young girl (Leora)l learns to accept the death of her best friend, through [...]
Giving and Goodness
Posted in Authors, Book Reviews, General, Non-Fiction, tagged Authors, Bill Clinton, Books, Giving, Non-Fiction on December 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I finished reading the book Giving, by Bill Clinton, a while back. I thought this would be a good book to recommend to those who might want some suggestions how to be productive in the area of “giving“.
Givingtakes on many forms, from monetary to volunteering, and Clinton’s book, shows us avenues through [...]
Somewhere a Master, by Elie Wiesel
Posted in Authors, Book Reviews, General, tagged anti-semitism, Authors, Books, Elie Wiesel, Hasidic masters, Hasidic sages, Hasidic teaching, Hasidism, History, Holocaust/Genocide, Jewish Authors, Jewish Community, Jewish Culture, Jewish Hatred, Jewish history, Jewish Life, Jewish masters, Jewish movements, Jewish People, Jewish persecution, Jewish Prayer, Jewish Religion, Jewish sages, Jewish stories, Jewish tales, Jewish teachers, Jewish teachings, Jewish Traditions, Jewish Writers, Jews, Judaism, Male Authors, Prose, Religion, Shoah, Somewhere a Master, Somewhere a Master by Elie Wiesel, Writers on December 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Somewhere a Master: Hasidic Portraits and Legends is one of Elie Wiesel’s wonderful books filled with stories of legendary, Hasidic Masters.
Each individual, was a sage in their own right, and each one brought a depth of illumination into the ideals, practices, and the joy received within spiritual practice. The Talmud was an integral [...]
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, by John Boyne
Posted in Authors, Book Reviews, General, Literature/Fiction, tagged Books, Films, Holocaust/Genocide, John Boyne, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas on December 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, by John Boyne, is a novel written from a unique perspective, that of a young German boy named Bruno. He is the son of a Nazi Officer.
Bruno befriends a Jewish boy named Shmuel who is in a concentration camp. Their friendship begins through a fence that borders [...]
Wise Men and Their Tales, by Elie Wiesel
Posted in Authors, Book Reviews, General, Literature/Fiction, tagged Authors, Biblical Characters, Biblical history, Biblical men and women, Biblical messages, Biblical portraits, Biblical reference, Biblical stories, Bilbical studies, Books, Elie Wiesel, fables, Hasidic masters, Hasidism, History, Holocaust/Genocide, Jew, Jewish, Jewish Authors, Jewish Culture, Jewish history, Jewish Life, Jewish Religion, Jewish sages, Jewish scholars, Jewish Studies, Jewish Tradition, Jewish Writers, Jews, Judaism, Literature, Male Authors, male writers, Religion, stories, Wise Men and Their Tales, Writers on December 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Biblical figures abound in Elie Wiesel’s Wise Men and Their Tales: Portraits of Biblical, Talmudic, and Hasidic Masters. His masterful mode of story telling is no less compelling than similar-themed books written by him.
In the book Somewhere a Master: Hasidic Portraits and Legends, Wiesel focuses on how “The sages, legendary teachers, saw the [...]
First Desire, by Nancy Reisman
Posted in Authors, Book Reviews, General, Literature/Fiction, tagged anti-semitism, Auschwitz, Authors, Books, Female Authors, female writers, fiction, Holocaust/Genocide, Jew, Jewish, Jewish Literature, Judaism, Literature, Nancy Reisman, novel, Novels, Religion, Shoah, Survivors, Writers, writing on November 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In First Desire by Nancy Reisman, we are given a set of characters who appear to be constantly yearning for acceptance and love, within the confines of the familial structure.
The Cohen family is composed of a tyrannical widower, Abe Cohen, and his five adult children, who seem to be stuck in a time [...]
Wandering Star, by J.M.G. Le Clezio
Posted in Authors, Book Reviews, General, Literature/Fiction, tagged anti-semitism, Authors, Books, French authors, French writers, Genocide, historical fiction, Historical Literature, historical novels, Holocaust/Genocide, Israel history, Israel Independence, Israel War of Independence, J.M.G. Le Clezio, Jewish, Jewish Culture, Jewish history, Jewish Life, Jewish People, Jewish Refugees, Jewish Religion, Jewish Survivors, Jews, Judaism, Literature, Nazi invasion France, Novels, Palestinian genocide, Palestinian history, Palestinian refugees, Religion, Shoah, Wandering Star, War, war and destruction, World War II, Writers, WWII, WWII historical fiction, WWII Israel on November 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
wandering-star1 This year’s Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to French author J.M.G. Le Clezio. The Swedish Academy praised him in their citation, “author of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy, explorer of a humanity beyond and below the reigning civilization” The Award will take place in Stockholm, Sweden on December 10, 2008.
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Italy’s Sorrow, by James Holland
Posted in Authors, Book Reviews, General, Non-Fiction, tagged Authors, Books, Cassini WWII, Genocide, historical books, historical WWII documentation, History, history of WWII, Holocaust/Genocide, Italian Campaign, Italian Campaign books, Italian Campaign history, Italian Campaign of WWII, Italian fascists, Italian History, Italian Jews, Italian Partisans, Italian society, Italians and WWII, Italy history, Italy World War II, Italy WWII, James Holland, Jew Wishes, Jewish Italians, Naples WWII, Salerno WWII, Sicily WWII, War, war commentary, World War II Italy, Writers, WWII commentary, WWII historical book, WWII History, WWII Italian Campaign, WWII Italy, WWII Naples, WWII Salerno, WWII Sicily, WWII war-torn Italy on December 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Not much is known about how Italy was thrust in the middle of World War II, with the fascist regime. Not much is known about the allied forces who were involved in the war in the liberation of Italy. Italy’s Sorrow: A Year of War, 1944-1945, by James Holland is a book that [...]
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