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People Who Eat Darkness: The Fate of Lucie Blackman by Richard Lloyd Parry My rating: 4 of 5 stars A riveting, unputdownable true-crime story. Terribly disturbing, full of fascinating details. A very complicated story, extremely well told. Congratulations to Mr Parry for such an achievement. View all my reviews
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Will I keep a list this year? Here’s a start: from the To-Read Shelf: Poet of the Appetites: The Lives and Loves of MFK Fisher, by Joan Reardon Every time I read about MFKF, I think of how much I admire her writing, and what a quirky conundrum of a person I find …
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Via Mama, actually, a thoughtful piece from the New York Times.
This wonderful essay from tomorrow’s NY Times. I am posting the whole text so I can keep rereading it myself. February 28, 2010 Essay I Was a Teenage Illiterate By CATHLEEN SCHINE At the age of 26, when I returned to New York after an inglorious stab at graduate work in medieval history on the …
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NYTimes picks for best books of 2007. How many have I read? And then there’s the entirely different question, how many do I own? December 28, 2007 A Year of Books Worth Curling Up With By …
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Friend and constant reader Richard Smith, late of the BMJ, has issued a challenge to his Facebook pals to read George Eliot’s Daniel Deronda, which he claims to be as Russian a novel as an English novel gets. One thing has led to another, and now I myself have issued a challenge to read a …
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. . . there is no way I can get all the books in this house read. So! I am now trying to polish off 1 or 2 a day, unusually for me, by plowing through one at a time. So far, so good. I have now finished Don DeLillo’s Falling Man (highly recommended), Suite …
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. . . in 1933, Patrick Leigh Fermor woke up and decided to walk to Constantinople. He writes about this epic journey in A Time of Gifts (which is followed by Between the Woods and the Water). So far, it’s one of the best travel books I’ve ever read, and some of you will know …
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Let me save you $20 or so, by summarizing a promising-sounding but ultimately disappointing book, by Steve Leveen. The Little Guide to your Well-Read Life sounds so, so great to your average bookaholic. Alas, alas. Here are the contents: make a list of books you want to read, make a list of books you have …
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I’ve decided to try to keep a list of all my finished–ah, there’s the rub–reading for 2005. Of course, it’s mid-February, and I’m only now getting started, so it’s not going to be a complete list. But I’m going to give it a whirl, along with all the other things I’m trying to keep up …
