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If someone mentions South America and Nazis, what comes to mind? For many, it’s the seemingly ubiquitous idea of Nazis escaping there after the war. While the concept has at least a few kernels of truth, it ignores or pushes aside events that swept up Latin America during the war. South American writers, though, [...] Tim July 1st, 2010 | Tags: Book Reviews, fiction, Notable Books Challenge, Review Copy, world literature | Category: Book Reviews | Leave a comment |
 Print This Post |  Email This PostIt looks like my reading challenge efforts are more than a little weak this year. If you take a gander at the list of them to the right, there’s two I’ve done nothing toward. And the others aren’t get much better. In one — a challenge I came up with — I’ve only read [...] Tim May 27th, 2010 | Tags: Books of the Century challenge, Notable Books Challenge, Random Reading Challenge, reading, reading challenges | Category: A Reading Life | Comments are closed |
Print This Post | Email This PostThere’s a few things I’m going to embark on for next year from both a personal and blog standpoint. One is reading challenges and the other deals with book reviews. I joined four reading challenges in 2009, two of which I completed by the middle of the year. I completed the third August 1 [...] Tim December 17th, 2009 | Tags: Books, Notable Books Challenge, reading challenges | Category: A Reading Life | Comments are closed |
Print This Post | Email This PostAs 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 PostYou could summarize Tim Winton’s Breath by saying it’s a novel about a two Australian teenagers who perfect their surfing skills under the tutelage of a reclusive mentor. Of course, that would be like saying Fight Club is a novel about young men in an illicit fighting club. Breath may be built around [...] Tim June 11th, 2009 | Tags: Book Reviews, fiction, Notable Books Challenge, reading challenges, Review Copy | Category: Book Reviews | Comments are closed |
Print This Post | Email This PostSome contend that the term literary fiction is so overused and broad, it now amounts to little more than a name for a recent genre. And if you’re an illiterati like me, you might consider literary fiction to be like pornography — I can’t define it but “I know it when I see it.” [...] Tim March 27th, 2009 | Tags: Book Reviews, fiction, Notable Books Challenge, reading challenges, Review Copy | Category: Book Reviews | Comments are closed |
Print This Post | Email This PostA number of the characters in the short stories that comprise Steven Millhauser’s Dangerous Laughter: Thirteen Stories don’t look at others straight on or are even hidden in darkness. That seems appropriate. Millhauser’s work tends to present a view of parts of life and the human experience that most others don’t see or [...] Tim March 13th, 2009 | Tags: Book Reviews, fiction, Notable Books Challenge, reading challenges, Review Copy | Category: Book Reviews | Comments are closed |
Print This Post | Email This PostMany people believe the U.S. is in a mess. But the history David Hajdu recounts in his latest book might provide a handy scapegoat: comic books. Stop and think about it. For nearly two decades, the men in the Oval Office — and even longer for Congress — have been of the [...] Tim February 13th, 2009 | Tags: Book Reviews, history, nonfiction, Notable Books Challenge, reading challenges, Review Copy | Category: Book Reviews | 2 comments - (Comments are closed) |
Print This Post | Email This PostMind-numbing. That’s the only way to describe the casualties from America’s Civil War. For example: An estimated 620,000 soldiers died between 1861 and 1865, roughly the same number as in the Revolution, the War of 1812, the Mexican War, the Spanish-American War, World War I, World War II, and the Korean War combined. While three [...] Tim January 30th, 2009 | Tags: Book Reviews, history, nonfiction, Notable Books Challenge, reading challenges, Review Copy | Category: Book Reviews | 2 comments - (Comments are closed) |
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