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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 PostInherent in any book about current events or current affairs is the problem of lag time, the time from experiencing the events to writing about them to the book actually ending up in stores. Some of that can be alleviated by selling stories of the events to magazines or newspaper as or shortly after [...] Tim June 8th, 2009 | Tags: Book Reviews, foreign affairs, history, nonfiction, reading challenges, Review Copy, World Citizen Challenge | Category: Book Reviews | One comment - (Comments are closed) |
Print This Post | Email This PostIt is the actions of the masses, not great men, that truly shape history, Leo Tolstoy argued in War and Peace. Support for that theory might be seen in Lijia Zhang’s “Socialism Is Great!”: A Worker’s Memoir of the New China. Zhang’s book is a personal memoir, not a political one. That’s why it [...] Tim May 5th, 2009 | Tags: Book Reviews, history, memoir, nonfiction, reading challenges, Review Copy, World Citizen Challenge | Category: Book Reviews | Comments are closed |
Print This Post | Email This PostAmerica’s tendency to rush books into print after newsworthy, or even not so newsworthy, events has generally soured me on books appearing shortly after the events with which they deal. After all, can the paperback you see in the a supermarket checkout line a month or so after the latest trial of the century [...] Tim April 2nd, 2009 | Tags: Book Reviews, foreign affairs, memoir, nonfiction, reading challenges, Review Copy, World Citizen Challenge | 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) |
Print This Post | Email This PostInnumerable obstacles stand between an author and gaining the widest possible audience. For John W. Kiser, the problem is subject matter. There probably aren’t a lot of Americans interested in a favorable biography of an Islamic jihadist. And that’s a shame because not only did that jihadist die 125 years ago, shortly [...] Tim January 16th, 2009 | Tags: biography, Book Reviews, nonfiction, reading challenges, Review Copy, World Citizen Challenge | Category: Book Reviews | 3 comments - (Comments are closed) |
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