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• Look Who’s Back by Timur Vermes

  

  He never claims to be anyone other than who he was, and yet this time the German Volk see Adolfo Hitler as a comedian. How is it possible that a man as evil as... Read more

  Posted on 01 April 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Dead Lake by Hamid Isamilov (Trust Peirene Press to Deliver!)

  

  For anyone who has never lived in the steppe, it is hard to understand how it is possible to exist surrounded by this wilderness on all sides. but those who hav... Read more

  Posted on 30 March 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• While The Gods Were Sleeping by Erwin Mortier

  

  No detail is too small for Erwin Mortier. It is as though he has taken up the pen of Marcel Proust with which to tell us about World War I, and initially I... Read more

  Posted on 29 March 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Anticipating April…

  

  It begins with the Steiff duckling of my youth looking in shocked amazement, mimicking my own joyous face I'm sure, at the bag of Chanel treats given me by my... Read more

  Posted on 28 March 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• In The Beginning Was The Sea by Tomas Gonzalez

  

  There is an ominous, and delicious, aura of fear right from the start of this novel. You can instantly sense that things are going to go wrong, you just don't... Read more

  Posted on 25 March 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• F: a Novel by Daniel Kehlmann

  

  F is for finance. F is for fake. F is for father who's absent. F is for frantically running from the life you've made and F is for fraudulent. For nobody in thi... Read more

  Posted on 23 March 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Mailbox Monday

  

  Into my mailbox this month have come untold riches. And while I am consumed with reading as much of the long list for the IFFP as I can before April 9, I have... Read more

  Posted on 22 March 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The End of Days by Jenny Erpenbeck (A Spectacular Way to Begin the IFFP Long...

  

  Several years ago, I was only able to read one book for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. It was by Gerbrand Bakker, and I was not surprised to find that i... Read more

  Posted on 20 March 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Boy Who Loved Rain

  

  I didn't realize I had accepted the review of a book written by a pastor, poet and missionary who lives in Normandy, France. But opening the book to find an... Read more

  Posted on 17 March 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• A Dangerous Place by Jacqueline Winspear

  

  Although Maisie Dobbs has been around for many years, I have not been introduced to her until this book which is twelfth in the series. I can't say that I regre... Read more

  Posted on 16 March 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• An Introduction to The Poser by Jacob Rubin (And Give-away)

  

  Accented with vaudevillian flair, is set in an imaginary country that resembles America of the 1950s and 1960s. A small eastern seaside town is where we meet... Read more

  Posted on 14 March 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Great Beauty (La Grande Bellezza)

  

  "Sumptuously sensual, crammed with gusto, vitality, spectacle, and invention, The Great Beauty (2013) is also a cautionary tale about the heedless pursuit of... Read more

  Posted on 07 March 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Don’t Move by Margaret Mazzantini

  

  This is the second Premio Strega award-winning novel I have read in as many weeks. It will be tricky to review because it made me sad, and the first half was... Read more

  Posted on 01 March 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• I’m Not Scared by Niccolo Ammaniti

  

  A title which represents as much bravado as you might expect a nine year old Italian boy to have: I'm not scared. And while he might boldly declare he's not... Read more

  Posted on 26 February 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Quiet Chaos by Sandro Veronesi

  

  In my passion for translated literature first, and prize winning works next, I have picked up several books by Italian authors (shockingly obtained at our sub... Read more

  Posted on 24 February 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• I Seem to Have Lost My Place, Temporarily

  When I began blogging in 2006 it was enough to have a voice. A voice that went beyond my journal's pages or my husband's ear. And not only did I have a voice,... Read more

  Posted on 22 February 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Dept. Of Speculation by Jenny Offill

  

  When I started reading this book, I thought she was neurotic. Now I understand that she is just blatantly honest, this mother, this wife, who tells us her... Read more

  Posted on 21 February 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Mah Jongg: The Art of The Game by Ann M. Israel and Gregg Swain

  

  When my husband teases me about retiring in a few years, he says, "Will you play Mah Jongg with the ladies all afternoon?" I haven't attended a Mah Jongg club a... Read more

  Posted on 19 February 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• One Night In Winter By Simon Sebag Montefiore

  

  A select group of children at School 801, in Moscow, have formed a Fatal Romantics Club based on the writings of Pushkin and what they have learned about him... Read more

  Posted on 14 February 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Happy Valentine’s Day!

  

  Yesterday was a day of great celebration in my classroom. Cookies, heart shaped boxes of Ghiradelli chocolates, bags of m m's, and psychedelic cards were in... Read more

  Posted on 14 February 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE