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Music’s power and McEwan

This post has been in process for a couple weeks. Ian McEwan’s Saturday brought it to fruition.

I am continually amazed by the exceptional power of music. I’d love to find an explanation of how a song can produce goose bumps. Or why certain ones (a specific portion of Springsteen’s Rosalita and, of all things, […]

Tim April 4th, 2005 | Tags: , | Category: Music | Comments are closed | |

Pulitzer Prizes

I don’t pay as much attention to the Pulitzer Prizes as I did when I was a journalist. Now I mainly look at the literary awards, although my experience has been that Pulitzer winners are generally fairly serious tomes, particularly the non-fiction.

Anyway, the 2005 winners were announced today and include:

FICTION, Gilead, Marilynne Robinson

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Tim April 4th, 2005 | Tags: | Category: A Reading Life | Comments are closed | |

Book Review: Saturday by Ian McEwan

This book is, quite simply, magnificent.

As I’ve noted, I don’t read much standard fiction. And I’ve never read anything of McEwan’s. The buzz on Saturday, though, led me to pick it up. It is a masterpiece.

The basic premise is a Saturday in the life of a London neurosurgeon. The vulnerability we feel in […]

Tim April 3rd, 2005 | Tags: , , | Category: Book Reviews | Comments are closed | |

SF book awards

While I was in Seattle, the Philip K. Dick Award winner was announced at Norwescon, one of the country’s larger science fiction conventions. (I did not go to Seattle for nor did I attend Norwescon.) The award is for “distinguished science fiction published in paperback original form in the United States.” This year’s winner was […]

Tim March 31st, 2005 | Tags: , | Category: A Reading Life | Comments are closed | |

Dylan’s Chronicles

As you may have seen by now, the first volume of Bob Dylan’s autobiography, Chronicles: Vol. 1, was a finalist for, but did not win, the National Book Critics Circle award for biography.

I bought the book the day it was released. While it was an enjoyable read, it was also uneven. Moreover, I wonder […]

Tim March 21st, 2005 | Tags: , , , , | Category: Book Reviews | Comments are closed | |
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