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Leonard made extensive use of research and a researcher named Gregg Sutter for many of his novels, and Cubra Libre seems to be one of the more exhaustively researched and well-penned (he never used a computer or word processor, and rarely a typewriter) books in his oeuvre. Leonard, who began as a writer of westerns, then turned to city crime books, is back in semi-familiar territory in this book with a cowboy protagonist (Tyler) running horses to Cuba. The plan...
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An unfortunate bit of timing has our hero captured in a front page story standing amidst the rubble of a hotel bombing.
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A wake-up book for the study of post-colonialism in Africa and a spark point for outrage by public intellectuals like Christopher Hitchens from what was made known to the world (female genital mutilation). It will challenge anyone’s worldview and where they sit on the moral relativist scale. The choice presented in this novel between the Christian missionaries and indigenous tribal rights is impossible. A young man of the Gikuyu tribe named Waiyaki is the focal point in Thiong’o’s novel. At...
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The walk and the environs are the stage settings for the people Mod encounters, who share this forgotten land south of Nara - the Kii peninsula.
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There is a vibrant quality running through the narrator's life that I would equate to a good noir detective novel that keeps the page-turning pace up, with the occasional weirdo wandering into the story (more than a few times)
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Fiennes' production in which the poem is the script, performed in a theatre with subtle changes of light, and accompanied by film interludes of the locations associated with the poem's four sections.
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Dreams —A series of epigrammatic observations that aren't in themselves single-subject posts, fiction or fact, poem or prose.
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UFO nutjobs find themselves in an extremely well-written novel.
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Christopher Hitchens reflects on his upbringing, the influences that shaped him, and the philosophical foundations of his worldview.
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Quicksand is a silkily nuanced novel of erotic gamesmanship and obsession.
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A novella that is the confession of Pozdnyshev, a man who recounts the tragic unraveling of his life and marriage. Very Russian fare.
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Essays on the intricacies of literature, focusing on the importance of originality, and the tremendous lack thereof.
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A tale of an unusual 18th century mutiny.
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Narrated by fellow mouse, who reflects on Josephine's (a mouse) significance within their society.
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A young man falls for a dancer and in promoting her falls into debt, and finally prison. The novel starts with his release from prison.
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Short tales by R.K. Narayan taking place in the fictional town of Malgudi.
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The contemporary art world comes face to face with one Michel Houellebecq.
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A biography penned by the director’s Man Friday, what we’d call today a personal assistant, I guess. Before taking on that job, Emilio D’Alessandro was a down and out taxi driver who just happened upon the famous director one day when Kubrick was tired of dealing with the regular crew of drivers he had. He asked D’Alessandro if he could be his driver full time. From then on, duties continually increased along with being close to the director, who had...
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The trivial moments in life often hold greater meaning than grand events? Find out here.
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Why not write the big story of the past by telling the little ones?
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A tale that revolves around a wealthy financier, Benjamin Rask, and his enigmatic wife, Helen.
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Ray Midge, a bean counter in Arkansas, is our leading man and narrator. One day, his wife leaves him for Guy Dupree, but what's worse is that she takes his car.
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Multi-levels of meaning and potential interpretation exist in this, one of Joyce's shortest stories.
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Hard sci-fi from the author of The Martian.
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August book club selection
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A new and compelling discovery for me. The work is difficult to summarize or put into a genre, oddly.
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Essay collection by the author of Killers of the Flower Moon.
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A brief but oddly engaging novel narrated by a grammar school student.
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The film follows the routine life of Hirayama, who cleans public restrooms and during his breaks, relaxes by having a bite to eat on a park bench and taking photos of the sun shining through the leaves above. I have since learned that the word in Japanese for the appreciation of sunlight coming through a canopy of leaves overhead is komorebi (木漏れ日). I have a trove of photos like that, so it should have its own word. I also learned...
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