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It is not a fun read, and is R-rated in places, but the metaphors ring poetic on the rebound. The main characters are a disillusioned aging African American minister who who picks up an artist at a bar whose HIV positive gay son has just died.
I enjoyed this true story that reads more like fiction. It is about Byrd’s expedition to Antarctica in the 1920’s, through an obscure main character’s experience.
This sweeping saga about Ramses the Great is wonderful. A series of five books, is written by an Egyptology professor. This is blockbuster fiction at its best depicting a laudable leader doing his best for…
This book is by turns hilarious and heartwarming. I both laughed out loud and teared up. It is all over the lot and swings from grocery store shopping and potty training to forgiveness and sanctuary.
This is a clever mystery novel with unexpectedly two stories within one, which was a twist I’ve never run across before.
If you are interested in science, you will be glad to have read this book. In general, Lab Girl is very well done.
She talks about the dialectic between form and content, concluding that form is the more crucial of the two, but what I guess I’m saying here is that I think content matters too.
I warn you, there are a lot of guns in this book, and because of that, I debated even honoring it with a review here.
This is a story of two neighbors–one patrician blue-bloods of high society, and the other a Mafia Don and his family– who clash and implode. It serves as a cautionary tale in many ways, as well as a study in human nature.
This was a different and interesting take on the underground railroad as a literal physical thing. The concept was fresh enough, together with excellent writing, to garner it 2017’s Pulitzer Prize.
I enjoyed this book of historical fiction about the Empress SiSi (Elizabeth) married to the Austro-Hungarian Emperor Franz Joseph of the Hapsburg line.
I’ve been enjoying these two books of poetry lately and have marked some to eventually share with you.
This book is billed as a novel, but it is a record of a fictitious woman poet being interviewed, including all her mind’s meanderings and flashbacks.
This book about the Ravensbruck all-women (non-Jew) concentration camp during WWII was harrowing and hard to read.
Well, first of all the scene on the cover never comes close to happening in the book. Secondly, the title is all wrong because it isn’t really about the man in the iron mask. It is a sequel to the Three Musketeers…
I have long wondered about the first Mrs. Einstein’s role in the origin of the theory of relativity. The fact that when she divorced him she was awarded all financial proceeds from his future Nobel prizes, only supported all sorts of evidence from letters that the early work was actually hers.
If you are interested in astronomy, or like detailed histories especially in the sciences, or you are interested in obscure women’s history, this book might be for you.