I read this book because a lady, Gemma Bulos, on the Echoing Green website had it on her books to read about making the best of your life. Because I’m always trying to see what the world changers are up to, I read it. The author of the best-seller, The Alchemist magically [...]
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In keeping with the theme of great books and great movies, I recently watched the 2007 film adaptation of Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s Love in the Time of Cholera, soon after completing the novel. Let’s start with the novel: beautiful, enchanting, compelling. I loved reading about the intense love triangle between the beautiful [...] You would think us bibliophiles would know better than to judge a book by its cover. But sometimes we just can’t help ourselves. Nicole and Whitney have already confessed. Now I’m fessing up too. But then again I don’t know many avid readers who wouldn’t agree that sometimes the cover illustration screams “read me!” For my [...] I’ve been on a hunt to find A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith, our 3rd official UL selection. I wanted to take Mme. M’s suggestion and get it from the library, but, if you can believe it, the New York Public Library only has 36 copies in circulating in all of their dozens [...] Jonathan Safran Foer writes a refreshingly rich and complex love letter to his ancestors and the people of the Ukraine in Everything Is Illuminated. In short, Everything Is Illuminated is the story of a young Jewish American in search of his family’s history. Armed with a beguiling translator named Alexander Perchov, his grandfather and their [...] I’m not big on this whole “going green” trend, but today I thought about one thing all book lovers can do to contribute to society: use your library card more often. You probably thought I had something clever to say. Sorry to disappoint but let me explain. The following explanation is strictly for those analytically minded [...] This you must know before I tell you about my reading of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, by James Joyce: I’m a bit of a snob. I like snobby drinks, snobby restaurants, and, as evidenced by this blog, snobby books. I like the challenge of reading books that are difficult, full [...] |
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