Reading Log
Friday, January 24, 2020
TRUST EXERCISES by SUSAN CHOI (2019)
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This is a very aptly named novel. On the surface level, the title refers to one of the teaching methods of a charismatic, and perhaps corrup...
Sunday, January 12, 2020
THE NICKEL BOYS by COLSON WHITEHEAD (2019)
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Those who read Colson Whitehead's 2016 Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning novel The Underground Railroad may expect, as I d...
Friday, January 3, 2020
THE DUTCH HOUSE by ANN PATCHETT (2019)
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Thanks to Christmas gift certificates, I am able to buy newly published books rather than thriftily re-reading books from my shelves. This i...
Monday, August 26, 2019
TEN SHORT REVIEWS
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More short reviews of books read for the second or third time. THE TIGER'S WIFE by TEA OBREHT (2011) Second reading Set in an unna...
Sunday, July 28, 2019
BECOMING by MICHELLE OBAMA (2018)
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Several years ago, just after Barack Obama was elected president, a good friend of mine remarked to me, "Don't talk to me about Mic...
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Sunday, July 21, 2019
AN AMERICAN MARRIAGE by TAYARI JONES (2018)
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This is the story of a marriage in trouble. It is not solely because of some of the more commonplace stressors that face young couples, such...
Thursday, July 11, 2019
WARLIGHT by MICHAEL ONDAATJE (2018)
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This is yet another novel I bought because of the writer, not because I had read glowing reviews. Michael Ondaatje is the author of The Engl...
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