While WG Sebald’s Austerlitz won’t be among the top five favorite reads of 2010, it will be among the top books that I’m glad I read. Using stream-of-consciousness narrative, Austerlitz is the title character’s story as he tells it to an unnamed, first-person recorder. And while this style isn’t my favorite, it is profoundly appropriate in this instance.
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Geraldine Brooks’ People of the Book is like a beautifully wrapped gift.
If you’re a fan of Gothic literature, be sure to pick up Kate Morton’s The Distant Hours. It could have been used to teach my college class on the genre.
As soon as I read the first line of Elizabeth Strout’s Amy and Isabelle, I knew I had been here before. But, the familiar sense was inviting so I kept reading, and the revisit was well worth it.
Because I’m so far behind, I’m going to take advantage of the fact that two of the reviews I need to write are by the […] Read More
If you’re a fan of Harry Potter, you probably will love (and may already know about) Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book. When I picked it […] Read More
Today’s Book Blogger Appreciation Week theme fits perfectly with the book review I need to write. We invite you to share with us a book […] Read More
My book club chose The Catcher in the Rye as our August selection. We were feeling the need for a male author, and with the […] Read More
Winner of the Man Booker Prize in 2009, Wolf Hall is Hilary Mantel’s account of part of King Henry VIII’s reign in England through the […] Read More
My second Elizabeth Stout read of this year behind Olive Kitteridge, Abide with Me was a little disappointing. That said, it isn’t bad – it […] Read More