Category: book review
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Book review: Just Breathe, by Dan Brulé
Do you need a lesson to perform what happens naturally? I’ve read two books that got me to see my basic functions differently, and as a consequence, behave differently. The first was Zen Macrobiotics by George Ohsawa. I read it as a 24-year-old and it forever disenthralled me from the standard American diet. I read…
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Memoir/book review: Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Emerson’s idealism encounters Camus’ reckoning with the absurdity of human suffering.
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Book review: Amor Towles’ Rules of Civility
Amor Towles’ Rules of Civility (2011) As an enthusiast of his A Gentleman in Moscow (2016), I wanted to totally enjoy this earlier effort of the author’s, but its sketchy conclusion left me wanting. Until the ending (and after the first two chapters), I was entirely enthralled by this time-travel to New Year’s Eve, 1938…
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Reflections on three Atwood novels
Having read Handmaid’s Tale and then this spring The Testaments, I decided to read deeper into the novels of Margaret Atwood, and my step-daughter, a huge fan, suggested the following titles as a way into her non-Gilead narratives. I’m very grateful for her suggestions, as you’ll see below. Cat’s Eye (1988) Kunstlerroman of a Canadian woman…
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