Read for the TBR Lite Challenge. Apparently, at the tale end of WWII, there was a fleeting idea to allow Jewish refugees to settle in Alaska. It was indeed a fleeting footnote to history kind of idea, but Michael Chabon took it, ran with it, and the result is this book, an alternate history, Jewish, […]
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Read for the TBR Reading Challenge. I had a sudden thought about half way through Austenland. What would Jane Austen think of the many books that have been written based upon or in homage to her books? I enjoyed Austenland. The story centers on Jane Hayes, a woman in her early thirties who has finally
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Read for the TBR Reading Challenge. The Time Traveler’s Wife is the story of Henry DeTamble, a man suffering from chrono-displacement, which means that he travels back and forth along the length of his life, never knowing where/when he’ll end up, and his wife Clare, who plods along the linear path of time. This was
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The Bestiary is the tale of Xeno Atlas, a boy who has always been surrounded by people with an affinity for animals, and who grows up and takes up the quest to find the Caravan Bestiary, a book that records the animals that Noah did not include on the ark. Xeno definitely doesn’t live a
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Read for the TBR Reading Challenge I do enjoy a good book where I’m completely surprised when the mystery is resolved at the end of the story. The build up of this story was great. Margaret Lea, a book store employee who has published a couple of biographical essays, but is certainly not known for
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What a sweet book. It’s about Ruth, who seems to have a pretty perfect life, until her husband is laid off, her 16-year old daughter loses the ability to relate to her, and her father breaks both his arms and has to move in, when her mother (note that Ruth’s parents have been long divorced)
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Read for the Books to Movie Reading Challenge. Watership Down follows the journey of a few male rabbits from the warren where they were born, as they set out to found a new warren, following the lead of two brothers. I have to say, I’m not sure how it is that I haven’t read this
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Read for the Book to Movie Challenge I saw the movie version of this book when it was in the theater (back in 2006), and that definitely colored my perceptions of the book. I had read online that Ridley Scott (the director of the movie) had come up with the original idea for the book
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Read for the Book to Movie Challenge. Interesting little book. The story centers around Mirabelle, a shop girl in the LA Neimans, and her relationship with Ray Porter, a much older man. At its heart, the book is about transitions. It’s clear from the beginning that this is a relationship that was never meant to
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