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Book 43 A Mercy was a pick for One Book One Chicago awhile back. I pulled it off the shelf when I found an audio version, read by the author. The setting is Virginia, 1680. a seven-year-old slave is sold away from her mother… Continue Reading “A Mercy, by Toni Morrison”
Book 42 When I saw that Jeremy Irons did the audio reading, I snapped it up from the library. I’d listen to that guy read the phone book. And I must say that he did the voice of an old man on his death… Continue Reading “Brideshead Revisited, by Evelyn Waugh”
Book 41 Another post-Katrina memoir of a New Orleans transplant making the case for for why the people saying Let it Sink Into the Gulf are wrong and totally suck. He talks about his first visit and falling in love with the town. About… Continue Reading “Why New Orleans Matters, by Tom Piazza”
Book 40 Novelist Douglas Preston went to Florence and found himself living right next to the scene of a double murder – one of seven committed by a serial killer. The victims were all young lovers, shot with a handgun in the middle of… Continue Reading “The Monster of Florence, by Douglas Preston and Mario Spezi”
Book 39 Marilynne Robinson won the Pulitzer for Gilead, a novel about the life of a small town minister. Home is about the family of his neighbor, another minister. There is a prodigal son returning and a daughter that is afraid she will never… Continue Reading “Home, by Marilynne Robinson”
Book 38 This was another YA novel doing a sort of memoir of a character – in this case Obi Wan Kenobi. The set up is that he left a journal in his cave on Tatooine and Luke found it when he went back… Continue Reading “Star Wars: The Life and Legend of Obi Wan Kenobi, by Ryder Windham”
Book 37 I would have missed this short novel if it hadn’t been for the Introduction by Ann Patchett. She was in “the world’s smallest used book store” while on vacation when a friend pulled it out and made her read it. She loved… Continue Reading “The All of It, by Jeannette Haien”
Book 36 The Horse Boy is the memoir of a journey that was made into a documentary a few years back. Rupert Isaacson is the father of an autistic son, who found a glimmer of hope in the boy’s connection with a horse. This… Continue Reading “The Horse Boy, by Rupert Isaacson”
Book 35 The Year of Magical Thinking was my introduction to Joan Didion. Part of the heartbreak of that memoir (the subject of which was grieving a lost husband) was knowing that by the time the book was published, their daughter would also have… Continue Reading “Blue Nights, by Joan Didion”
Book 34 The fifth book in the Sookie Stackhouse series of True Blood fame. It was fun. While no new supernatural species were introduced, we spent a lot of time with the shifters – werewolves and others. A sniper is hunting them. Fine, then.… Continue Reading “Dead as a Doornail, by Charlaine Harris”
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