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I've been quiet for a while, reading a lot but not writing much. Now I'm back with a review of a children's book. Baby steps. It's impossible not to think of Ukraine when you read Nour's Secret Library which is set in war-torn Syria. Nour and her cousin Amir live in Damascus (which means fragrant … Continue reading Nour’s Secret Library
I recently read - ok listened to - the 2019 Young Adult book On the Come Up by Angie Thomas. You may know of her 2017 YA bestseller The Hate U Give (or the movie version which hit screens in 2018). As outstanding as that book was, I think I liked this one better. Here's … Continue reading 3 books, 2 authors, 1 series, 0 complaints
Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity David Lynch wants you to go diving - deep sea diving into the ocean of consciousness within. How? Through meditation, specifically TM or Transcendental Meditation. TM was created in the 1950s and instead of focusing on your breath you silently repeat a mantra / sound to yourself two or more times … Continue reading Catching the Big Fish
Let's talk coffee-table books. I love them. I can't justify buying them. I don't have room for the ones I already own. Enter the library's oversized collection... If books are portals to stories and information, generating wonder and inspiration, then oversize books multiply these feelings! They make a statement just sitting on the table and … Continue reading Coffee-table Books
It's the middle of April and I only just realized I didn't have my running list up yet, of all the books I've read this year. Dream Girl by Laura Lippman People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present by Dara Horn False Witness by Karin Slaughter Bibliophiles: Diverse Spines by Jamise Harper and … Continue reading 2022 book roundup
Brit Bennett's book The Vanishing Half is an achievement. She created a story that draws you in and lingers long after you finish. To say it is multilayered and thought-provoking would be an understatement. If you were growing up Black in the American South in the '50s but could easily pass for White, would you … Continue reading The Vanishing Half
The Plot landed on all the 2021 best-of lists and now that I've read it I understand why. Jean Hanff Korelitz strikes again with her clever and devious novel. I read and raved over her 2014 book, You Should Have Known (made into the HBO show The Undoing and reviewed here). Korelitz is an excellent … Continue reading Well-plotted
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