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As a follow up to this week’s Musing Mondays, I figured this would be a good time to check on how I’m doing on the reading challenges I adopted for the year. So far, more than so good. I’m actually one book shy of completing all three. Here’s the tally so far: Notable [...] Tim July 2nd, 2009 | Tags: Books, Lost In Translation Challenge, Notable Books Challenge, reading challenges, World Citizen Challenge | Category: A Reading Life | Comments are closed |
 Print This Post |  Email This PostSense of place is not just a combination of geography and culture, it is a synergy of the two. Swedish author Kerstin Ekman doesn’t seek to describe sense of place in her novel God’s Mercy. She does something far more difficult. Sense of place so permeates the novel it moves from being [...] Tim June 29th, 2009 | Tags: Book Reviews, fiction, Lost In Translation Challenge, reading challenges, Review Copy, world literature | Category: Book Reviews | Comments are closed |
Print This Post | Email This PostWorried about retirement or maintaining your standard of living in your “old age”? The near-future country in which Swedish author Ninni Holmqvist’s first novel, The Unit, is set has a comfortable future in store for many women 50 and older and men 60 and older. Imagine this: Your own, fully furnished apartment in a complex [...] Tim June 26th, 2009 | Tags: Book Reviews, fiction, Lost In Translation Challenge, reading challenges, Review Copy, sci-fi, world literature | Category: Book Reviews | Comments are closed |
Print This Post | Email This PostOrwellian. Kafkaesque. Both terms are universally recognized shorthand for certain types of tales. Yet the terms are bandied about all too often. While the title of Detective Story by Imre Kertész calls to mind some noir novel, it is far more faithful to Orwell and Kafka than most other books for [...] Tim May 14th, 2009 | Tags: Book Reviews, fiction, Lost In Translation Challenge, reading challenges, Review Copy, world literature | Category: Book Reviews | Comments are closed |
Print This Post | Email This PostIt’s what every reader longs for but experiences all too rarely. Just a few pages into a book and you realize there’s something special in your hands. German author Hans Fallada’s Every Man Dies Alone is just such a book. And what makes it perhaps that much more remarkable is that it is [...] Tim April 7th, 2009 | Tags: Book Reviews, fiction, Hans Fallada, Lost In Translation Challenge, reading challenges, world literature | Category: Book Reviews | Comments are closed |
Print This Post | Email This PostLebanon, particularly Beirut, was torn asunder by the civil war that raged in the country from 1975 to 1990. Both external forces and internal strife contributed to the depredation. It is perhaps no surprise, then, that the war is the backdrop and more to Yalo, the most recent work of Lebanese novelist Elias [...] Tim February 17th, 2009 | Tags: Book Reviews, Lost In Translation Challenge, reading challenges, Review Copy, World Citizen Challenge, world literature | Category: Book Reviews | 2 comments - (Comments are closed) |
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