All of us, every one of us, has had a moment when a window opened, when we caught a glimpse of the open, sunlit world beyond, but all of us, on this bus, have had that window close and remain closed. – from Translator Translated – The Artist of Disappearance is a collection of novellas [...]
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Scottsboro – Book Review
Even after all these years, the injustice still stuns. Innocent boys sentenced to die, not for a crime they did not commit, but for a crime that never occurred. Lives splintered as casually as wood being hacked for kindling. Young manhood ground to ashes. – from Scottsboro, page 1 – Ellen Feldman’s novel Scottsboro is [...]
World Book Night: A Celebration of Reading
Can you imagine one night with 50,000 people each giving away 20 books from a select list with a goal to have 1,000,000 people across the United States alone celebrating reading en masse? This is the dream of the founders and supporters of World Book Night. On April 23, 2012 (chosen because it is the [...]
The Street Sweeper – Book Review
Ghandi, Harlem, Christ, Jews in Europe, a block man living over there on Broadway in the Union Theological Seminary in 1930: you never know the connections between things, people, places, ideas. But there are connections. You never know where you’ll find them. Most people don’t know where to find them or even that there’s any [...]
Book Buzz: Winter 2012
Last spring I posted a series of articles about upcoming book releases – books I was anticipating and thought I would love, or books which I thought would garner attention in the book world. This time I am buzzing about books due for release in the Winter of 2012. You may locate more information about [...]
2011 Reading Re-Cap
It is always fun for me to go back and tally up my reading stats for the year. I used to break things down even more, but that became a little tedious to track…so now I keep things a bit more simple. All in all, 2011 was an amazing year of reading for me where [...]
River of Smoke – Book Review
Opium is like the wind or the tides: it is outside my power to affect its course. A man is neither good nor evil because he sails his ship upon the wind. It is his conduct towards those around him – his friends, his family, his servants – by which he must be judged. – [...]
Best Books of 2011 – The Long and The Short Of It
In 2011 my reading led me on a trek with a tiger, brought me to the Australian countryside during WWII, took me to Mauritius, brought me to a small town where a whale took center stage, allowed me inside the walls of a New England college, and introduced me to memorable characters such as Esch, [...]
“Book Buzz” Books Which Did Not Disappoint
I published a series of Book Buzz posts last spring where I highlighted books which I thought looked wonderful – books I was anticipating, and for which I had high hopes. I did not get to read all those books, but I managed to read several of them (and I have several of them still [...]
We The Animals – Book Review
We wanted more. We knocked the butt ends of our forks against the table, tapped our spoons against our empty bowls; we were hungry. We wanted more volume, more riots. We turned up the knob on the TV until our ears ached with the shouts of angry men. We wanted more music on the radio; [...]
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