Category: Reviews
Book reviews of my favorite reads.
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Remembrance of Things Past: Volume I – Swann’s Way & Within a Budding Grove by Marcel Proust
You can only read six pages at the most at a time. The work is so rich; it stays with you forever....
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Distant Star by Roberto Bolano
Distant Star by Roberto Bolano is a story that could only be told in the aftermath of Pinochet’s Chile....
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Time for Angels by Homero Aridjis, Francisco Toledo (Illustrations)
Poetry and angels. A fabulous Mexican poet. It sounds inspiring, right? Well, it is, but the inspiration is uncertain, ambivalent, and mysterious. I know...
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Rape: A Love Story by Joyce Carol Oates Review
This novel will make you cringe. Oates is at her chilling best in this book. I could not put it down.
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The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe by David I. Kertzer
Why are there no heroes in this story to stand up to these two repugnant leaders in Italy....
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One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
The novel is comic and tragic at the same time. It's myth and a Genesis. It is magic realism with all the elements of...
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The Final Solution: A Story of Detection by Michael Chabon
The writing is vivid and sharp. The characters voices are authentic and each is easy to visualize....