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Richard’s 2024 Year in Books
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Anderson offers her own eloquent understanding of the systemic racism that has polluted American culture since before the Civil War. In White Rage, she says: “…all of us…must step out of the shadow of white rage, deny its power, understand its unseeml ...more |
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Davis is a renowned storyteller, in person and in print. He offers very believable recollections of his childhood in this exceptionally prosaic collection. Tales from a Free-Range Childhood is a pleasing succession of reserved but spritely humorous acc ...more |
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Washington Square is a shallow dive into the meaning and the eternities of love. Henry James offers 214 pages of sometimes desultory talk about love, and a couple kisses, and a touch—not an embrace—or two, and Catherine and Morris talk at each other a ...more |
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Atonement is a story of the profound sadness of a child. The sadness is a burden on several lives. McEwan invites the reader to learn to understand the life of a child who learns to understand that atonement can be a lifelong quest. The child Briony k ...more |
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There are no fireworks and little spark in Kate Chopin’s prose. Her characters and her plots seem quotidian at best, and more like hum-drum. In her time she was a ground-breaking writer of feminist themes, but her stories simply are not thrilling in th ...more |
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"couldn't agree less with rand on most anything, including many of her stylistic choices. but she can spin a yarn; i'll grant her that. plus, i just had to know what these rightwingers and libertarians are prattling on about."
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Much of Small Things Like These qualifies for an “ordinary� description, but the reader repeatedly is invited to experience such intensely human emotions that it’s troubling to turn the page and continue reading� Bill Furlong, a coal dealer living a s ...more |
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You’ll recognize the casually engaging prose and the dedicated storytelling style of Erik Larson. It’s a pleasure to read everything he writes. Larson digs deep to explore the nature of the “demon of unrest� that made trouble for decades and wouldn’t ...more |
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“In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can’t build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery, and death. I see the world gradually being turned into a wilderness, I hear the ever approaching thunder, which will destroy us too, I can feel the sufferings of millions and yet, if I look up into the heavens, I think that it will all come right, that this cruelty too will end, and that peace and tranquility will return again.”
― The Diary of a Young Girl
― The Diary of a Young Girl
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Majenta wrote: "Hello, Richard! Thanks for contacting me! I hope you're well and that 2018 is going well so far. Congratulations on your book, and I hope you're enjoying working on the next one! Have a great new w..."thanks, Majenta, always interesting to talk about books with a fellow librophile
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Hello, Richard! Thanks for contacting me! I hope you're well and that 2018 is going well so far. Congratulations on your book, and I hope you're enjoying working on the next one! Have a great new week ahead. Blessings!Best wishes from Majenta
Thanks for getting in touch Richard. You write well-articulated reviews. Looking forward to reading more of them(books included).
