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Book Recommendations, August 2016

August 27, 2016 0

THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN by Paula Hawkins paperback $16.00 Riverhead Books, New York, 2015 This was on President Obama’s reading list last week when he was on holiday. The book is described as Every day the Same….Until today. Rachel,…

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My Favorite Book of 2015 and Other Recommendations

December 30, 2015 0

My favorite book of 2015: H is for Hawk by Helen MacDonald I have written about this book before. Please read the New Yorker essay by Kathryn Schulz on this book. Have a look at THE JOY OF READING IN…

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Book Recommendations, Non-Fiction: November 2015

November 20, 2015 0

LITTLE VICTORIES, Perfect Rules for Imperfect Living by Jason Gay, Doubleday, New York 2015 This book will make you laugh. It made me laugh out loud. I think it is an advice book that doesn’t take itself too seriously. From…

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The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo

September 5, 2015 1

The subtitle of this book is…the Japanese art of decluttering and organizing This Japanese author is the guru of tidiness, the book is a #1 New York Times bestseller and over 2,000,000 copies have already sold. Ms. Kondo takes tidying…

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Summer Reading

August 7, 2015 0

FICTION DORA BRUDER by Patrick Modiano Translated from the French by Joanna Kilmartin, University of California Press, 1997 2014 Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature This is a haunting gem of a book. The Nobel Foundation said, “[Modiano] has…

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Bookplates

July 21, 2015 0

A bookplate is usually a small print or decorative label pasted into a book, often on the inside front cover, to indicate its owner. The name of the owner usually follows an inscription such as “from the book of” or “from…

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Three New Gardening Books

June 13, 2015 0

Here are three new recommendations for all you gardening lovers: A BUZZ in the MEADOW, The Natural History of a French Farm by Dave Goulson Picador, New York, 2014, $25.00 The author relates the story of how he bought a…

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Far from the Madding Crowd

June 13, 2015 0

When I was in high school I was fortunate to have an English teacher who loved Thomas Hardy. We read “Return of the Native” (my favorite), “Far from the Madding Crowd” “Tess of the D’Urbervilles” and “Jude the Obscure”. Thomas Hardy…

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Fun and Interesting Non-Fiction Recommendations, March 2015

March 25, 2015 0

A HOME IN PARIS, Interiors – Inspiration by Catherine Synave, Photographs by Guillaume de Laubier, Flammarion SA, 2015 This beautiful book showcases the surprising diversity of the contemporary Parisian home. Included are lofts, apartments, town houses, duplexes of every possible…

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4 New Book Reviews

February 2, 2015 2

Redeployment by Phil Klay National Book Award Winner, 2014 Published by The Penguin Press, NY 2014 From former marine and Iraq veteran Phil Klay, a brilliant and hard-hitting collection of 12 fictional stories that are darkly comic. In “Redeployment“, the first…

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