Literature
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THE WINNERS – Fredrik Backman
It’s been a couple of years since the assault that tore Beartown and Hed apart. Some people are trying to move on, while others fight to hang on to what life was before everything fell apart. A tempest blows and brings with it some change. A local is killed as a result of the storm Continue reading
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DAMNIFICADOS – JJ Amaworo Wilson
In the heart of a large city in a Latin American country is a once-abandoned high-rise tower. It is now filled with squatters – families with nowhere else to as well as loners just looking for a safe place to dwell. These are the ‘damnificados’ – the unwanted; those damned to dwell where no one Continue reading
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FRENCH BRAID – Anne Tyler
We start in 1959 with the Garrett family (father Robin, mother Mercy and their three children – Alice, Lily, and David) taking their one and only vacation. Although vacations are often a time for families to be together and explore or relax together, the Garrett’s seem like strangers to one another. The ripple effect of Continue reading
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OLAV AUDUNSSØN: PROVIDENCE – Sigrid Undset
Olav Audunssøn and Ingunn Steinfinnsdatter were betrothed as children and raised together as foster children. They are madly in love with each other, though Ingunn was raped by another man while Olav was absent. A child came from that event, Eirik, which Ingunn gave to a foster family. But Olav sees the depression Ingunn suffers Continue reading
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DON QUIXOTE – Cervantes
In a small village in La Mancha, Spain, the noble Alonso Quijano has become completely consumed by the stories he’s read of knights and their valiant chivalry and so he imagines himself one of these knight, renames himself Don Quixote, and with his loyal servant Sancho Panza, sets off on a series of (mis)adventures, battling imaginary Continue reading
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SUMMER OF LOVE AND EVIL – Michael Kinnamon
It is 1967 and drugs, Vietnam, and family farms giving way to corporate farming are the topics of conversation in many Iowa communities. Charles Weaver is graduating from his small, Iowa farming town high school as the valedictorian. He has great plans for his last summer in town before going off to Des Moines to Continue reading
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THE AENEID – Virgil
Somehow I managed to get through high school and college without ever having read The Aeneid. I’m happy to have finally corrected that. Inspired by Homer’s slightly better-known, more familiar works, Virgil’s The Aeneid takes the hero, Aeneas, a survivor of the fall of Troy, and tells his story of war and defeat, his loves and passion, and Continue reading
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AND THE EARTH WILL SIT ON THE MOON – Nikolai Gogol
Nikolai Gogol. Like many, I suppose, I first encountered the work of Nikolai Googol while in college. I found his stories “The Nose” and “The Overcoat” entertaining, original, with some biting social commentary … exactly the sort of writing a university student might really get into. This collection includes Gogol’s arguably three most famous short Continue reading
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AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS – Jules Verne
A British dandy, Phileas Fogg, makes a bet with other British dandies that he can travel around the world in eighty days. Thanks to his financial situation, he is able to pay extravagantly and be afforded preferential treatment when standard means of travel don’t pan out. Fogg makes the journey with his newly acquired valet, Passepartout. As Continue reading
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HAMNET – Maggie O’Farrell
When is the death of a child beautiful? When it’s a story written by Maggie O’Farrell. It is 1585 and the woman Agnes settles with her husband in Stratford. They have three children – a daughter, Susanna, and then fraternal twins, Hamnet and Judith. Her husband is gone more often than not, to London, where Continue reading
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CIRCLE OF STONES – Suzanne Alyssa Andrew
This is a story of Nik, an art student, and his girlfriend Jennifer, a dancer. Like many eccentric artists, Nik is obsessive – especially when it comes to painting his dancer girlfriend. On the day Jennifer goes missing, Nik’s world falls apart. With few clues to Jennifer’s past, Nik begins a cross-country trip to find Continue reading
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