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2008
The
Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million
Daniel Mendelsohn (non-fic, 2007)
Playing the Enemy: Nelson
Mandela & the game that made a nation, J. Carlin
(non-fic,
2008)
Love Marriage, by V. V. Ganeshananthan (fic,
2008)
The
Secret Scripture, by Sebastian Barry (fic,
2008)
The
Whereabouts
of Eneas McNulty, by Sebastian Barry (fic, 1990)
A
Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier, Ismael Beah (non-fic,
2007)
Molokai,
by Alan Brennart, 1890's - girl sent to Molokai learns her
culture
The
Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Haruki Murakami (fiction, 1997).
After
Dark,
Haruki Murakami (fiction, 2007)
2007
Movies:
Breach (stalking a U.S. counter spy),
Walk Hard (comedy - John C. Reilly as a musical
legund),
Romance and Cigarettes working
class (down and dirty musical),
Keeping Mum (comedy-crime),
Mr. Bean's Holiday
(goofy but sophisticated),
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (paralyzed editor can communicate with left eye only.),
The Kite Runner (Afghan boy and servant
grow up as brothers - true to the book).
On
Chisel Beach, Ian McEwan, 2007
Atonement notes: Movie in war scene "Power of
Shadows", 1938 romantic nihilist movie.
Redemptive power of art. Art
creates illusions to enable you to live with life.
New
York Times 100 notable books of 2007
Coconut
Rum Cake recipe
Tuscany
Manse Link
Montana
1948, by Larry Watson.
The
Glass Castle Jeannette Walls (memoir, 2005).
kids survive quirky dysfunctional parents
The
Echo Maker, Richard Powers (Winner of National Book Award)
Suite
Francaise, Irene Nemirovsky (2005, 2 novellas., PB)
Written in WWII France in 1940's
2006
Dreams
from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance,
Barack Obama
All
Passions Spent, Vita Sackville-West
Triangle,
Katherine Weber, 2006, Historical
Fiction
The
End of Faith: Religion,
Terror, and the Future of Reason,
Sam Harris, indictment of religion
Eat the Document,
Dana Spiotta, 60's fugitive - aging, with a son, still
underground.
Suite
Francaise, Irene Nemirovsky
(2005, 2 novellas., PB) Written in WWII France in 1940's
Animals
in Translation: Autism to Decode Animal Behavior, Temple
Grandin (2005, NFic, PB)
My
Life So Far, Jane Fonda (Autobiography, 2006, PB)
1,000 White Women, Jim Fergus (Hist novel, 1999, PB)
Woman's journal as wife of Chief.
Family
Matters, Rohinton Mystry (2003, fict., PB) Novel set in
Bombay 1990's.
A Fine Balance, Rohinton
Mistry (1996, PB,), 4 people in India's 1975 state of emergency.
Favorites about India by William Dalrymple:
City
of Djinns, William Dalrymple
(1993, PB) History of India through archit.
In
Xanadu, William Dalrymple (2000, PB,
Non-Fic)
The
Age of Kali: Indian Travels, William
Dalrymple (2000, Non-Fic. PB)
Favorites by Nadine Gordimer:
Burger's
Daughter, Gordimer (1980, PB) So.
African woman revolutionary.
Conservationist,
Gordimer (1983, PB, ) Transvaal landowner's
empty life.
July's
People, Nadine Gordimer (1982, fict., PB)
Black and White in So. Africa
Favorite Short Stories:
Ethan
Frome, by Edith Wharton
The
Magic Mountain, by Thomas Mann
The
Rocking Horse Winner, by D.H. Lawrence
The
Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, by
Mark Twain
A
Worn Path, by Eudora Welty
Silent
Snow, Secret Snow, by Conrad Aiken
Big
Blonde, by Dorothy Parker
Appointment
in Samarra, by John O'Hara
Butterfield
8, by John O'Hara
Rich as Stink, by Alice Munro (Love
of a Good Woman)
USA,
by Dos Pasos
Light
in August, by William
Faulkner
Accordion
Crimes, by Annie Proulx
Favorite Mystery Authors (the ones I
caught):
Anne
Perry murderess (Thomas and Charlotte Pitt,
Inspector Monk)
Elizabeth Chefwaller (Lane, couldn't
find-correct spelling?)
The Lighthouse
.Bird
Without Wings
When We Were Orphans
The
Shadow of the Wind Carlos Ruiz Zafon (Fiction,
2001). Compelling mystery about a recluse author, a
boy and evil. Set in Barcelona, 1939.
The
Ha-Ha Dave King (Fiction, 2005). Boy
changes life of disabled Vietnam vet.
The
Time Traveler's Wife Audrey Niffenegger (Fiction,
2003). Her husband gets routinely, involuntarily
whisked into another time
Bangkok
8 John Burdett (Mystery, 2002)
The only clean cop in Bangkok investigates his partner's
murder. Voyeuristic peek at Bangkok's sex trade.
The
Economy of Prestige:
Prizes, Awards, and the Circulation of Cultural Value,
James F. English, Jr.
Rereadings:
Seventeen
Writers Revisit Books They Love,
Anne Fadiman (Editor)
Birds
without Wings, by Louis de Bernieres, the
author of Corelli's Mandolin.
The
Shame of the Nation: The
Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America,
Jonathan Kozol.
The
Magician's Assistant, by Ann
Patchett Better than Bel Canto?
2005
Place
on Earth, Wendell
Berry (read the hard copy)
Light
on Snow, Anita
Shreve
Name
All the Animals: A Memoir,
Alison Smith
Because
I Said So: 33 Mothers Write about Children, Sex, Men, Aging,
Faith, Race, and Themselves
Camille Peri, Kate Moses
Her Sister's Keeper
Gilead,
Marilynne Robinson, Fiction, 2004. Pulitzer, Preacher
writes about his life.
Madame Sarah, Cornelia
Otis Skinner, Biography, 1989. Sarah Burnhardt.
White Bird Flying, Bess Streeter Aldrich,
1988. Granddaughter inherits literary aspirations.
The
Known World, Edward
P. Jones (Historical Fiction, 2003).
Pulitzer. Black slave owners.
The
Ha-Ha, Dave King (Fiction, 2005). Boy
comes to live with a Vietnam vet who can't talk.
The
Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time,
Mark Haddon '02, Autistic
boy solves crime
The
Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism,
Megan Marshall
Brunelleschi's
Dome Ross King, Non-Fiction, 2000,
Renaissance genius reinvents architecture
My
Sister's Keeper Jodi Picoult,
Fiction, 2004. Child conceived as
bone-marrow match for sister
The
Spiral Staircase: My climb out of
Darkness, Karen Armstrong,
Non-Fiction, 2004.
A
Round-Heeled Woman, Jane Juska, (Non-Fiction,
1998) At 76, she places ad for
late-life sex.
The
Line of Beauty,
Alan Hollinghurst. 2004 Booker.
The Philosopher's Demise:
Learning French Richard Watson, 2003. He can't
learn it - witty.
The
Ha-Ha Dave King, 2005.
War-damaged man cares for boy and opens up to world again.
Gellhorn: A
Twentieth-Century
Life Carolyn Moorehead Bio of Martha Gellhorn
Between
Silk and Cyanide:A
Codemaker's War,
Leo Marks. Head of Brit code-breaking WWII
Runaway:
Stories,
Alice Munro
Dreams
from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance,
Barack Obama
Random
Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble & Coming of Age in the
Bronx Adrian
Nicole LeBlanc
The
Gatekeepers: Inside the Admissions Process of a Premier
College, Jacques
Steinberg.
2004
Friday
Night Lights: A Town a Team and a Dream
H.G Bissinger. High school football
The
9/11 Commission Report, National
Commission on Terrorist Attacks, (Report, 2004)
Property,
Valerie Martin, (Fiction, 2003) Woman
slaveholder in the South.
Jonathan
Strange and Mr. Norrell, Susanna
Clark, (Fiction, 2004) Magic in 1800's England.
The
Rule of Four, Ian Caldwell,
(Mystery, 2004) Erudite puzzle-book set at Princeton.
Dress
Your Family in Corduroy and Denim: Essays, David Sedaris (Humor, 2004)
The
Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Michael Chabon (Fiction, 2000)
1940-50's NY.
Mountains
Beyond Mountains, Tracy Kidder (Biography, 2003)
Dr. Paul Farmer cures the world
Human
Voices, Penelope Fitzgerald,
(Fiction, 1999) The
BBC during WWII.
Little
Saint, Hannah Green, (Spiritual
journey, 2000) Written
in ecstasy in Conques, France.
Madame
Secretary, Madeleine K. Albright,
(Autobiography, 2003) Her
story.
Founding
Mothers: The women who raised our nation, Cokie Roberts
(Non-Fiction, 2004).
Living
History, Hillary Clinton, (Non-Fiction, 2003).
The
Namesake, Jhumpa Lahiri (Fiction,
2003)
The
Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini,
(Fiction, 2003)
The
Peppered Moth, Margaret Drabble,
(Fiction, 2001)
The
Devil in the White City, Erik Larson (Historical
Fiction, 2002). 1890 Chicago World's Fair.
Bronze
Bow, Elizabeth George Speare (Fiction, 1997). Avenging
father's death by crucifixion.
The
Big House: A Century - American Summer Home, George
Howe Colt (Non-Fiction, 2003).
Letters
to a Young Therapist, Mary Pipher,
(Non-Fiction, 2003). Sound life wisdom.
A
Mighty Heart, Mariane Pearl,
(Non-Fiction, 2003). The search for Danny Pearl in
Pakistan.
2003
Iron
and Silk, Mark Salzman,
(Non-Fiction, 1987). English teacher in post-cultural rev.
China.
Rivertown,
author? A foreigner in China.
Three
Junes, Julia Glass, (Fiction,
2002) Bonds of a complicated Scottish famly.
Blessings,
Anna Quindlen, (Fiction, 2002). What makes
a child legitimate or illigitimete?
Desert
Queen: The
Extraordinary Like of Gertrude Bell, Janet
Wallach, (Non-Fiction, 1998)
Life
of Pi, Yann Martel, (Fiction,
2001) Young
castaway on high seas.
The
Fortress of Solitude, Johathan
Lethem, (Fiction, 2003) 1970's
boy is Brooklyn pioneer.
Welcome
to the World, Baby Girl, Fannie
Flagg, (Fiction, 1998) Rising
TV star has a past.
Desert
Queen, Janet Wallach,
(Non-Fiction, 1996) Gertrude
Bell and founding of Iraq.
Magdalene,
Marita Conlon-McKenna,
(Fiction, 2001)
A
Parcel
of Patterns, Jill Paton Walsh,
(Fiction, 1992) How
the plague came to a 1665 village.
The
Human Stain, Philip Roth,
(Fiction, 2000) NE
Professor keeps a 50 yr. old secret.
Eva
Moves the Furniture, Margot
Livesey,
(Fiction, 2001) Invisible
visitors haunt Eva- WWII.
Eight,
Katherine Neville,
(Fiction, 1990) Mysterious
chess set touches lives thru history.
Why
Is It Always About You?,
Sandy Hotchkiss, (Non-Fiction, 2002) Surviving
a narcissist.
The
Fox and the Hedgehog, Isaiah
Berlin, (Non-Fiction, 1993) Tolstoy's
view of history.
The
Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown,
(Fiction, 2003) Fast-pace
mystery
The
Piano Shop on the Left Bank, Thad
Carhart, (Fiction, 2003)
Crow
Lake, Mary Lawson, (Fiction, 2003) Northern
Ontario - sibling rivalry.
Rich
Media, Poor Democracy, Robert
McChesney, (Non-Fiction, 1999)
Into
the Buzzsaw, Kristina Borjesson,
editor, (Non-Fiction, 2002) Myth
of the Free Press
Inventing
Wonderland, Jackie Wullschlager,
(Non-Fiction , 1995) Writing Alice, Pan, Pooh
The
Professor and the Madman,
Simon Winchester, (Non-Fiction, 1998) Insanity &
the OED.
John
Adams, David McCullough, (Biography, 2001) 2002
Pulitzer.
Greene
on Capri: A Memoir Shirley Hazzard,
(Non-Fiction, 2000) Graham Greene.
Mrs.
Bridge Even S. Connell, (Fiction, 1990)
Solid citizens of modern American society.
Family
Matters Rohinton Mistery, (Fiction, 2001)
Parkinson's impacts family in Bombay.
Great
Neck Norman Cousins, (Fiction, 2003)
1960's kids grow up.
The
Thief Lord Cornelia Funke, (Fiction,
2001) For young adults.
The
Bush Dyslexicon, Mark Crispin Miller,
(Non-Fiction, 2001) Humor - Bush misspeaks.
Nine
Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of
Islamic Women
Geraldine Brooks, (Non-Fiction, 1994)
A
Fine Balance Rohinton Mistry, (Fiction,
2000) Four flee India's 1975 civil emergency.
Anatomy
of an Illness Norman Cousins,
(Non-Fiction, 1981) As perceived by the patient.
Hateship,
Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage Alice
Munro, (Stories, 2001) Great.
On
Writing Stephen King,
(Non-Fiction, 2000) A master storyteller shares secrets.
Wild
Swans: three daughters of China, Jung Chang,
(Non-fiction, 1991) 3 generations.
2002
The
Conquerors Michael Beschloss,
(Non-Fiction, 2002) Roosevelt, Truman mold Germany.
Embers,
Sandor Marai, (Fiction, 2001) Reunion reveals end of
Austro-Hungarian Empire.
Bridget
Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding, (Fiction,
1996) 30-ish single woman.
Montana
1948, Larry Watson, (Fiction, 1995)
Conflict between family loyalty and justice.
A
Month in the Country, J.L. Carr, (Fiction,
2000) Recovering from WWI.
Austerlitz,
Winfried Georg Sebald, (Fiction, 2001) Man's
identity crisis from childhood void.
Empire
Falls, Richard Russo, (Fiction, 2001)
Decaying mill town in Maine.
The
Third Man, Best movie of all time. (Movie,
1949) Classic film noir - post WWII Vienna.
The
Partly Cloudy Patriot, Sarah Vowell,
(Essays, 2002) Sardonic commentary, history.
The
Piano Tuner, Daniel Philippe Mason,
(Fiction, 2002) Mysterious Burma in 1886.
Nickel
and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America, Barbara
Ehrenreich, (Non-Fiction, 2001)
Class
Action, Bingham Laura, Leedy Gansler,
(Non-Fiction, 2002) Sexual harass. in mines.
Back
When We Were Grown-ups, Anne Tyler, (Fiction,
2001) Suburban nightmare.
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Week, Weekly news magazine - Digest of
international and US press. Subscribe.
White
Teeth, Zadie Smith, (Fiction, 2000)
Erudite comedy about culture-clash in Britain.
Oleander
Jacaranda, Penelope Lively, (Memoir, 1994)
Portrait of a childhood in Egypt.
Fortunate
Son, J. H. Hatfield & William Wimsatt, (Biography,
1999 or 2001) George W. Bush
A
Beautiful Mind, Sylvia Nasar, (Biography,
1998) John Nash, math genius,
schizophrenic.
Bee Season, Myla Goldberg, (Fiction, 2000)
Gaining renown as the spelling bee champ.
Bad
Blood: A Memoir, Lorna Sage, (Autobiography, 2000)
Growing up in postwar Wales
Bel
Canto, Ann Patchett, (Fiction, 2001)
Hostages mesmerized by opera's famed soprano.
No
Great Mischief, Alistair MacLeod (Fiction,
2000) Haunted by a Scottish mythic past.
A
Heart of Stone, Renate Dorrestein (Fiction, 2001)
Ghosts of her Amsterdam childhood.
The
Emperor of Ocean Park, Stephen L. Carter (Fiction,
2002) African-American society.
In
the Fall, Jeffrey Lent, (Non-fiction, 2000)
Post Civil War to Great Depression.
Breath,
Eyes, Memory, Edwidge Danticat, (Fiction,
1998) Girl back to Haiti. Hartford
Book.
While
I Was Gone, Sue Miller, (Fiction, 2000)
Woman leaves marriage in 1968.
A
Year by the Sea: thoughts of an unfinished woman,
Joan Anderson (Fiction, 2000)
Last
Time They Met, Anita Shreve (Fiction, 2002)
passionate relationship - only 3 times
Don't
Lets Go To The Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood,
Alexandra Fuller (Memoir, 2001)
Uncle
Tungsten, Oliver Sacks,
(Non-fiction, 2001) Sack's childhood - a scientific
memoir.
The
Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell. (Non-Fiction,
2000). How the world changes.
Guns,
Germs and Steel, Jared Diamond. (Science,
1997), Pulitzer. Why humans flourished.
Gift from the Sea, Anne Morrow Lindbergh
(Non-Fiction,
1955). Love and contentment.
The
Death of Vishnu, Manil Suri, (Fiction, 2000)
Houseboy in modern-day India.
What
Went Wrong?:
Western
Impact and Middle Eastern Response,
Bernard Lewis, (Fiction, 2000)
Strangers
in the House:
Coming of Age in Occupied Palestine,
Raja Shehadeh, Non-fiction, 2001)
The
Mustard Seed Versus McWorld: Reinventing
Life & Faith. Tom Sine, (Non-fiction, 1999)
Circles:
Fifty
Round-Trips through History, Technology, Science, Culture,
James Burke, (Non-fiction, 2000)
The
Metaphysical Club: A
story of ideas in America. Louis Menand, (Non-fiction,
2001)
Disobedience,
Jane Hamilton, (Fiction, 2001) 17 yr-old discovers mom's
affair.
Fall
on Your Knees, Ann-Marie MacDonald, (Fiction,
2002) Troubled Nova Scotia family..
We
Were the Mulvaneys, Joyce Carol Oates, (Fiction,
2001) Rise & fall of American family.
Border
Crossing, Pat Barker, (Fiction, 2001)
Boy murderer and psychologist.
Home
at the End of the World, Michael Cunningham,
(Fiction, 1990) Guys & girl form triangle
Tibet:
Through the
Red Box, Peter Sis,
(Non-fiction, 1998) a father's diary - lost in Tibet.
Parallel
Lives: Five Victorian Marriages, Phyllis Rose,
(Non-fiction, 1984)
Interpreter of Maladies, Jhumpa Lahiri, (Fiction, 1999) Short
stories - first book.
Elegy for Iris: A Memoir, John Bayley, (Non-fiction,
1999) Iris Murdoch's husband writes.
Rising to the Occasion, a Practical Companion, Edith
Hazard & Wallace Pinfold, (Non-fiction, 2001) How
do do almost everything.
The
Botany of Desire, Michael Pollan, (Non-fiction, 2001) Plants-eye
view of the world.
2001
Running
in the Family, Michael Ondaatje, (Autobiography, 1993) Back to Ceylon.
Hormones
and the Mind, Edward L. Klaiber, (Health, 2001)
Custom hormones for women.
Something
by Deborah Tannen Men, women and language.
Daughter of Fortune,
Isabel Allende. (Fiction, 1999)
http://www.iconn.org/
Connecticut Digital Library -CT Education Network text &
databases.
Paris
to the Moon, Adam Gopnik, (Non-fiction, 2000)
Paris dissected.
The
Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Haruki Murakami,
(Fiction, 1998)
Word
Freak, Stefan Fatsis, (Non-fiction, 2001)
The world of serious scrabble players.
The
Lost Life, Claire Massu, ()
The
Chimney Sweeper's Boy, Barbara Vine, (Fiction,
1999)
How
To Be Good, Nick Hornby, (Fiction, 2001)
Ladder
of Years, Anne Tyler, (Fiction, 1997)
Hotel
Du Lac, Anita Brookner, (Fiction, 1995)
To
The Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf, (Fiction, 1920?)
The Gold Bug Variations, Richard Powell, (Fiction, 1994)
The Fall of
a Sparrow, Robert
Hellenga , (Fiction 1998) Man in Italy after daughter dies
The Sixteen Pleasures, Robert
Hellenga, (Fiction,
1994) Sexual awakening of a young woman
Behind
the Scenes at the Museum,
Kate
Atkinson (fiction, 1997) Generations
Conditions of Faith, Alex Miller
(Fiction, 2000) 1920's in
Paris, Tunisia
Mark Twain And His World, Justin Kaplan, (non-Fiction,
1974). Out-of-print.
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Dave Eggers.
(non-fiction, 2000) Raising an 8 year-old brother
The Map of Love, Ahdaf Soueif (fiction, 2000) Romantic
epic-Egypt
The
Death and Life of Great American Cities, Jane
Jacobs, (non-fiction,
1961) see review.
Images and Shadows: Part of a Life, Iris Origo,
(autobiography, 1970). Modern aristocracy.
The
Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, Anne Fadiman
(non-fiction, 1998), Hmong clash.
Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie, (fiction, 1981)
(Indian independence)
The Conservationist , Nadine Gordimer, (fiction, 1975)
(portrait of an Afrikaner industrialist)
Headlong, Michael Frayn (fiction, 1999)
Tulip Fever, Deborah
Moggach, (fiction, 2000)
Jerusalem the Golden, Margaret Drabble (fiction, 1967)
The
Millstone, Margaret Drabble (fiction, 1965)
Ahab's Wife, or, The Star-Gazer, Sena Jeter Naslund,
(fiction, 1999)
Under a Wing: A Memoir, Reeve Lindbergh (memoir, 1998)
House of Sand and Fog, Andre Dubus III (fiction, 1999)
Magician of the Modern, Eugene Gaddis, (Non-Fiction,
2000) Chic Austin and the arts in US
The Blind Assassin, Margaret Atwood, (fiction, 2000)
Body and Soul
In the Fall, Jeffery Lent (legacy of slavery), (fiction,
2000)
July's People, Nadine Gordimer, (race relations in South
Africa), (fiction, 1982)
The Road from Coorain , Jill Ker Conway, (growing up on a
sheep station), (memoir, 1989)
Remembering Babylon, David Malouf, (13 yr-old castaway in
Australia), (fiction, 1993)
A Month in the Country, James Lloyd Carr, (WWI vet renews
faith), (fiction, 1983)
The Eye of the Storm, Patrick White, (family love and
hatred), (fiction,1988) ’73 Pulitzer.
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