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Fiction & Poetry
Non-fiction & Creative Non-fiction
I list recent postings here. Check archived books for previous reviews. And scroll down for titles suggested by family and friends. Under Fiction & Poetry City of Thieves - novel Olive Kitteridge - novel The Guernsey Literary and Sweet Potato Peel Pie Society - novel The Elegance of the Hedgehog - novel Bridge of Sights - novel Edgar Sawtell - novel The Gathering - novel Under Non-Fiction & Creative Non-Fiction — The Worst Hard Time - history Hot Flat and Crowded - geopolitical Writing to Change the World - writing The Left-handed story - writing Poetry as Survival - writing The Post-American World - foreign affairs Pulling Down the Barn - memoir One Writer's Beginnings - writing A Complaint Free World - psychology/spirituality For other titles, reviewed in the past, click on a"show archived reviews" above. Books I hope to read that you have recommended: FROM THE FAMILY – From Chris Taylor: He’s winning by the way! His new job has him on airplanes a good share of the time. I envy him his reading time! I’m going to start listing his most recent ones first… The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth (Friedman)economics/political - skim he says, it’s long but important! Three Billion New Capitalists (Prestowitzeconomics/political skim this one too he says! The End of Oil (Paul Roberts)economics/political The Innovator’s Dilemma (Clayton M. Christensen)business Everything Bad Is Good For You (Steven Johnson) cognitive thinking / parenting From Nicole DeNooyer: In the Time of the Butterflies (Julia Alvarez) novel Purple Hibiscus (Chimananda Ngozi Adichie) novel From Dominique DeNooyer: Audio Books! Dominique likes to listen to his books! Outliers (Malcom Gladwell) psychology/sociology Ascent of Money (Niall Ferguson) economics The Tipping Point(Malcom Gladwell) psychology/business Freakonomics (Steven Levitt) psychology/business Blink(Malcom Gladwell) psychology/business Nickel and Dimed(Barbara Ehrenreich) contemporary culture/sociology From Craig Hoeksema The Way We Eat (Peter Singer) contemporary culture/sociology The End of Poverty (Jeffrey Sachs ) contemporary culture/sociology Pathologies of Power (Paul Farmer) politics/sociology The History of Love (Nicole Krauss) novel (I recommend too, see review) From Meredith Volkema The Omnivore's Dilemma (Michael Pollan) - ethics & enviornmental food issues AND FRIENDS – From Marge DuBois Cage of Stars (Jacquelyn Mitchard) novel From Joy Gaines-Freidler Rainer Maria Rilke Letters to a Young Poet - translated and with a foreword by Stephen Mitchell. Breaking the Alabaster Jar - interviews with the poet Li-Young Lee From Mary Haab: The Little Locksmith (Kate Butler Hathaway) (pub.ished 1943) novel Dreams of My Russian Summer (Andrei Makine) novel The Sea (John Banville) novel All the Names (Jose Saramago) Saramago won the Nobel in 1998 Yo (Julia Alverez) novel Feast of the Goat (Mario Vargas Llosa) novel Drinking Coffee Elsewhere (ZZ Packer) short stories Heart is a Lonely Hunter(McCullers) novel Will in the World (Greenblatt) novel From Peter Haab: Suite Francaise (Irene Nemirosky) novel The Cave (Jose Saramago)novel From Diane Kalusniah: A Thousand Spendid Suns (Khaled Hosseini author of The Kite Runner). novel The Book Theif (Marcus Zusak) novel The Zahir/ A Novel of Obsession (Paulo Coelho) novel One Thousand White Women (Jim Fergus) novel From Melissa Kruse: Buffalo Girls (Larry McMurtry) novel From Leon Midgett Castle in the Forest (Norman Mailer) novel World wihtout End (Ken Follett - sequel to Pillars of the Earth) novel From Sally Mulder Moloka'i (Alan Brennert) novel From Kym Reinstadler The Memory Keeper's Daughter (Kim Edwards) novel Three Junes (Julia Glass) novel The Inheritance of Loss (Kiran Desai) novel (the 2006 Man Booker Prize Winner) From Barbara Saunier The Mozart Effect (Don Campbell) (nonfiction, music and creative expression) from Mary Tigner - Rasanen Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name (Vendela Vida) novel The Sacred Depths of Nature (Ursula Goodenough) nonfiction The History of Love (Nicole Krauss) novel |
