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Monthly Archives: August 2018
Book Review: Tristina
Tristina Galdos, Benito Perez New York Review Books, 2014 translation Set in Madrid in the late 18, early 1900’s, the densely complicated short novel begins with a description of an aging gentleman who’s primary life interest, it seems, is to … Continue reading
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Tagged Benito Perez Galdos, book review, church, fiction, Madrid, music, older man - younger woman, painter, Spain, Tristina
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Book Review: Farmer Buckley’s Exploding Trousers
Farmer Buckley’s Exploding Trousers Pain, Stephanie, ed Profile Books, London, 2011 One of those odd finds where the title hints at something offbeat but probably good and it actually delivers. This is a collection of “oddities on the way to … Continue reading
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Tagged book review, Farmer Buckley’s Exploding Trousers, non fiction, oddities, Stephanie Pain
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Book Review: Chechnya Diary
Chechnya Diary Goltz, Thomas St. Martin’s Press, 2003 This is a fairly powerful book about a TV war correspondent’s view of the initial Chechnya fighting in 1995. That timeframe has a certain attraction to me; after all, it was when … Continue reading
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Tagged 1990's, book review, Chechnya, memoir, non fiction, reporting, Russia, Samashki, Thomas Goltz, war
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Book Review: Getting Over the Color Green
Getting Over the Color Green Slovic, Scott, ed University of Arizona Press, Tucson, 2001 An anthology of contemporary (but is 2001 contemporary still contemporary now?) environmental literature of the southwest. It is broken into a few sections – natural history, … Continue reading
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Tagged anthology, book review, conservation, culture, drought, ecology, environment, Getting over the color green, land use, Scott Slovic, Southwest, stewardship, water
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Book Review: Fat City
Fat City Gardner, Leonard Original 1969, NYRB edition 2015 Set in Stockton, California in the late 1950’s, this book dives deep into the lives of two young men, one barely starting his adult life and the other, though only 29, … Continue reading
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Tagged 1950's, boxing, California, Fat City, fiction, Leonard Gardner, racism, social history
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Book Review: A Memoir of the Warsaw Uprising
Bialoszewski, Miron translated by Levine, Madeline Revised Polish edition 2014, NYRB edition 2015 This book is a firsthand account of the author’s experience in the Warsaw uprising near the end of WWII. He was not directly involved in any of … Continue reading
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Tagged conflict, humanity, memoir, Miron Bialoszewski, non fiction, Poland, war, Warsaw
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Book Review: The Death of Napoleon
Leys, Simon New York Review Books, 2006, translation of 1986 French original An interesting twist on the history revisited genre in that this one falls to pieces rather than ending heroically. Upon his exile to St. Helena, an underground network … Continue reading
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Tagged book review, fiction, Paris, produce, Simon Leys, St. Helena, The Death of Napoleon, Waterloo
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Book Review: Naked Earth
Chang, Eileen New York Review Books, 2015 edition of 1958 original A group of young party activists descend on a small village in rural China to assist with Land Reform in the wake of the revolution. For most it is … Continue reading
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Tagged China, Communism, Cultural Revolution, Eileen Chang, fiction, historical fiction, Korea, Korean War, land reform, Naked Earth, POW, Shanghai
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Book Review: White Rose, Black Forest
White Rose, Black Forest Dempsey, Eoin Lake Union Publishing, Seattle, 2018 December, 1943. A young woman, recently released from a Nazi prison after serving a minor sentence as an accomplice to the White Rose resistance movement, is wandering in a … Continue reading
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Tagged Black Forest, book review, dissident, Eoin Dempsey, fiction, Germany, Gestapo, historical fiction, intrigue, spy, thriller, White Rose
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Random Food of the Day
The Narcissist burger and chicken fries at Apollo Burger in Victorville. I have to admit, the food won this round.
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Tagged Apollo Burger, chicken, food, fries, hamburger, photo, Victorville
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