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Book 12 Man Booker Prize winner that has been on my shelf for years. I would call this a family epic that illustrates the incredibly complicated relationship India has with the Western world. There’s a retired judge who lives in the boonies with his… Continue Reading “The Inheritance of Loss, by Kiran Desai”
Book 11 I am sorry to tell you that I am one of those people that judge people by the way they use “to, two and too” and “there, their and they’re”. That is not to say that my grammar is perfect. My mother… Continue Reading “Eats, Shoots and Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation, by Lynne Truss”
Book 10 I read recently that McEwan is the master of the defining moment – meaning a point in time after which absolutely nothing is the same. Point of no return. On Chesil Beach is the story of a newly wed couple on their… Continue Reading “On Chesil Beach, by Ian McEwan”
Book 9 I picked up this book because it is on Miss Busy’s list of all-time favorites. And the audiobook was at the Library. Really good stuff. The story opens with Wang Lung’s wedding day. The bride is a slave from the house… Continue Reading “The Good Earth, by Pearl S. Buck”
Book 8 The Penelopiad is part of a series of books where “some of the world’s finest writers” retell the old myths. Atwood chose Penelope and Odysseus. Atwood has a serious problem with the end of the Odyssey, where Penelope’s 12 maids were hung.… Continue Reading “The Penelopiad, by Margaret Atwood”
Book 7 I seem be the last person on Earth to read this book. It is pretty good if you like the sociological study books. Gladwell does his homework on what he calls, “social epidemics”. I would call it what makes stuff go viral.… Continue Reading “The Tipping Point, by Malcolm Gladwell”
Book 6 My friend Jamie picked this for our book club and I thought it was good enough to recommend to my boss for our next department read. Coyle spent a whole bunch of time studying what he called “hotbeds of talent”. Random places… Continue Reading “The Talent Code, by Daniel Coyle”
Book 5 So. Everyone and his book club raved about this one last year. I hit my combination of $2 or less at the Used Book Store + Audio Copy in Stock at the Library this weekend. I noticed, when I logged it into… Continue Reading “Room, by Emma Donoghue”
Book 4 I have read several memoirs about the Clintons, including Living History, Rewriting History and as much of My Life as I could manage. I’ll get back to it, I swear. I think I keep going back because I have a hard time… Continue Reading “A Woman in Charge, by Carl Bernstein”
Book 3 One of two books by Seierstad, a Norwegian journalist, that has been sitting on my shelf for awhile. I picked it up after a note from Women for Women that the lady I am sponsoring in Kosovo is graduating the program soon.… Continue Reading “With Their Backs to the World: Portraits from Serbia, by Asne Seierstad”
The Next Dark Age 