Monthly Archives: August 2019
Toni Morrison sums up the theme of Song of Solomon on page 153 when she says, “Here was the wilderness of Southside. Not the poverty or dirt or noise, not just extreme unregulated passion where even love found its way with an ice pick, but the absence of control. Here one lived knowing that at any time, anybody might do anything. ★★★★ Read Review
This Pulitzer Prize winning novel is about small-town life in America. Richard Russo offers the reader Interesting characters and great plot. ★★★★ Read Review
Scoop is Evelyn Waugh’s satirical comedy of errors and includes some sharp and witty ridicule of the manner in which the media operates, but on the whole, this 1930’s “classic” is out-dated and boring. Could someone please explain to me why Scoop is number 75 on the Modern Library list of 100 greatest novels? ★+ Read Review
Evergreen is a novel of epic proportions – the story of a young orphaned Jewish girl from Poland who migrates to America to live in New York City with distant relatives. Taking the reader from 1906 when Anna is a naive, wide eyed, enthusiastic child of 12 years old, to 1972 at age 78, she has become a very wise sophisticated, loving grandmother. ★★★★+ Read Review
Mozart – His Life and Times written by Peggy Woodford is a delightful coffee table book. It is the story of both his private and public life and contains diary entries, personal letters, copies of original sheet music, portraits, and much more. ★★★★★ Read Review
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