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CULTURAL PSYCHE AT THE END OF THE 60'S IN "THE WHITE ALBUM “We tell ourselves stories in order to live.” This has to be one of the great opening lines. As you continue through The White Album , you’ll find many profound lines throughout. Joan Didion’s collection of essays encompasses a ten year period of writing; a supplement to her reporting that is deepl FACING CANCER FROM A SURPRISING SOURCE: "ALL YOU COULD ASK Mike Greenberg, most commonly known as Greenie and the co-host of ESPN’s Mike & Mike , writes a novel from the perspective of three women. Huh? I was immediately skeptical. As metrosexual and into clothes shopping as Greenie is, at heart, he’s a AIN’T NO HAINTS IN THE “THE TURNER HOUSE”, BY ANGELA “Ain’t no haints in Detroit” is a Turner family mantra that originated on the night Cha-Cha, the oldest of thirteen Turner children, wrestled a ghost in his room on Yarrow Street. While many of the other Turners were convinced of Cha-Cha’s vision, his father, Francis, was not, and coined the phrase. CONTINUING THE LEGACY IN "EVERYBODY'S FOOL", BY RICHARD DISCLAIMER: Because of my complete Richard Russo adoration, this review could suffer from some bias. Everybody’s Fool is the sequel to Russo’s 1993 novel, Nobody’s Fool . Since the latter goes down as my top book of all time, I approached this one with some trepidation. It was all for naught. In BEYOND THE COVERHOME AND REVIEWS FOR BEYOND THE COVER The Sympathizer’s narrator is a double agent - a man of “two minds”.He’s half-French, half-Vietnamese, an Army Captain in the Vietnamese Army, while spying for the Communists. As an attache to a high ranking Vietnamese General, he has access to top secret information, American intelligence, and a ticket to the United States after the fall of Saigon. BEYOND THE COVERHOME AND REVIEWS FOR BEYOND THE COVER A sure sign of a great book is the feeling of emptiness that comes over you when it ends. This is how I felt turning the final page of David Arnold’s debut novel, Mosquitoland. I was turned on to this novel after reading a book review that made the claim that this story would be the next big thing in young adult literature. BEYOND THE COVERHOME AND REVIEWS FOR BEYOND THE COVER I stayed awake nights to read this. I couldn’t wait to reach the end, then hated when it was over. It’s that good. I read Jennifer Egan’s A Visit from the Goon Squad several years ago and liked it well enough. Egan’s latest, Manhattan Beach, far exceeds its predecessor. Egan's first work of historical fiction was diligently researched over several years, and takes place in New York as EXPLORING THE BAHAMAS WITH “OUT-ISLAND DOCTOR”, BY EVANS W Out-Island Doctor is the autobiography of Evans Cottman, starting out as a lonely biology teacher in Indiana. Cottman led a quiet, and by all accounts rather dull, life. His focus was teaching and caring for his aging parents and aunt with whom he lived. Cottman had a strong sense of adventure and COMING OF AGE IN POST WWII LONDON IN "WARLIGHT", BY I’ve read all but one of Michael Ondaatje’s novels, with varying degrees of enjoyment - ranging from really good to wonderful. Each are unique in subject and in method of unraveling their stories; however, all retain Ondaatje’s style. It’s a style that is hard to describe - at once uncomplicated in THE BAR HARBOR RETIREMENT HOME FOR FAMOUS WRITERS (AND Having read fantasy and romance from DeFino, I wondered how a straight up fiction novel of hers would be. I know that DeFino dislikes being pigeon holed into genres since she sees so many books falling into more than one. Which is exactly the case SURVIVING A CULT IN THE MEMOIR, "THE SOUND OF GRAVEL", BY The Sound of Gravel is a memoir from a surviving member of a polygamist Mormon cult and the author’s focus is on how the strain of the cult’s ‘religious’ tenets affected her family. Set mostly in Mexico, Ruth Wariner recounts her family’s multi-generational membership in the Colonia LeBar FICTIONAL DEPICTION OF RACE IN AMERICA HITS THE TARGET IN Small Great Things should be required reading for Americans. The triumvirate of lead characters is: Kennedy, a white female criminal defense attorney; Ruth, a Yale educated, veteran black labor and delivery nurse; and, Turk, an early 20s male white OFFBEAT AND FUN WITH “FUTURISTIC VIOLENCE AND FANCY SUITS This has to be the strangest and one of the most fun books I’ve read. And I would never had picked it up had it not been for a youngin’ at work. He was describing the morbidly funny t.v. shows and books he’s into. None sound appealing, but he was pretty passionate about David Wong. I think I probabl A MEMOIR OF HEARTACHE AND TORMENT IN “BAREFOOT TO AVALON This book is not for everyone. For me though, it was beautiful. Beautiful in its gutted heart and soul, its raw emotion, its incredibly precise writing, and its palpable heart ache. And its truth, according to David Payne in his recent memoir, Barefoot to Avalon: A Brother’s Story . It’s P BEYOND THE COVERHOME AND REVIEWS FOR BEYOND THE COVER The Sympathizer’s narrator is a double agent - a man of “two minds”.He’s half-French, half-Vietnamese, an Army Captain in the Vietnamese Army, while spying for the Communists. As an attache to a high ranking Vietnamese General, he has access to top secret information, American intelligence, and a ticket to the United States after the fall of Saigon. BEYOND THE COVERHOME AND REVIEWS FOR BEYOND THE COVER A sure sign of a great book is the feeling of emptiness that comes over you when it ends. This is how I felt turning the final page of David Arnold’s debut novel, Mosquitoland. I was turned on to this novel after reading a book review that made the claim that this story would be the next big thing in young adult literature. BEYOND THE COVERHOME AND REVIEWS FOR BEYOND THE COVER I stayed awake nights to read this. I couldn’t wait to reach the end, then hated when it was over. It’s that good. I read Jennifer Egan’s A Visit from the Goon Squad several years ago and liked it well enough. Egan’s latest, Manhattan Beach, far exceeds its predecessor. Egan's first work of historical fiction was diligently researched over several years, and takes place in New York as EXPLORING THE BAHAMAS WITH “OUT-ISLAND DOCTOR”, BY EVANS W Out-Island Doctor is the autobiography of Evans Cottman, starting out as a lonely biology teacher in Indiana. Cottman led a quiet, and by all accounts rather dull, life. His focus was teaching and caring for his aging parents and aunt with whom he lived. Cottman had a strong sense of adventure and COMING OF AGE IN POST WWII LONDON IN "WARLIGHT", BY I’ve read all but one of Michael Ondaatje’s novels, with varying degrees of enjoyment - ranging from really good to wonderful. Each are unique in subject and in method of unraveling their stories; however, all retain Ondaatje’s style. It’s a style that is hard to describe - at once uncomplicated in THE BAR HARBOR RETIREMENT HOME FOR FAMOUS WRITERS (AND Having read fantasy and romance from DeFino, I wondered how a straight up fiction novel of hers would be. I know that DeFino dislikes being pigeon holed into genres since she sees so many books falling into more than one. Which is exactly the case SURVIVING A CULT IN THE MEMOIR, "THE SOUND OF GRAVEL", BY The Sound of Gravel is a memoir from a surviving member of a polygamist Mormon cult and the author’s focus is on how the strain of the cult’s ‘religious’ tenets affected her family. Set mostly in Mexico, Ruth Wariner recounts her family’s multi-generational membership in the Colonia LeBar FICTIONAL DEPICTION OF RACE IN AMERICA HITS THE TARGET IN Small Great Things should be required reading for Americans. The triumvirate of lead characters is: Kennedy, a white female criminal defense attorney; Ruth, a Yale educated, veteran black labor and delivery nurse; and, Turk, an early 20s male white OFFBEAT AND FUN WITH “FUTURISTIC VIOLENCE AND FANCY SUITS This has to be the strangest and one of the most fun books I’ve read. And I would never had picked it up had it not been for a youngin’ at work. He was describing the morbidly funny t.v. shows and books he’s into. None sound appealing, but he was pretty passionate about David Wong. I think I probabl A MEMOIR OF HEARTACHE AND TORMENT IN “BAREFOOT TO AVALON This book is not for everyone. For me though, it was beautiful. Beautiful in its gutted heart and soul, its raw emotion, its incredibly precise writing, and its palpable heart ache. And its truth, according to David Payne in his recent memoir, Barefoot to Avalon: A Brother’s Story . It’s P BEYOND THE COVERHOME AND REVIEWS FOR BEYOND THE COVER Station Eleven’s storyline seamlessly moves between present day and the post-apocalyptic world that remains after most of the human population is decimated by a catastrophic world-wide pandemic.In a strangely non- "end of the world" book fashion, it starts off in the midst of a Shakespeare play and the Bard, through his works, seems to almost become a character in the story. BEYOND THE COVERHOME AND REVIEWS FOR BEYOND THE COVER When I saw Rush in the window of Square Books in Oxford, Mississippi, I was anxious to read it. The cover art popped (yes, it’s important) and I was curious to see how the experience of sorority rush is portrayed in current times. GLACIERS BY ALEXIS M. SMITH Glaciers is a careful and quiet book. Alexis M. Smith uses straightforward prose in an authentic voice to bring her lead character, Isabel to life in her debut novel. Isabel is a 28-year old native of Alaska, living in Portland. She works with damaged books inthe library, and
INTENSELY INTIMATE WITH “THIRTEEN WAYS OF LOOKING”, BY Colum McCann is truly a master of his craft. This is my first read of McCann’s library of work, but his evocative nature begs further discovery. In the midst of writing Thirteen Ways of Looking , McCann himself was attacked while trying to help a woman who “COMMONWEALTH”, BY ANN PATCHETT I’ve read Ann Patchett’s work in the past because of her renown as a great writer and storyteller. The two I had chosen were Run and Bel Canto , and frankly, I couldn’t figure out what the fuss was all about. In both, the story lines were interesting, yet the characterstwo-dimensional.
WHO ARE THE GOOD GUYS IN “THE DIRECTOR”, BY DAVID IGNATIUS Taking a page from Sara’s post asking authors of children’s books to stop underestimating their audienceDear writers of political suspense novels: please stop slighting women. These novels have a wider audience than the dudes they’re targeted to. Spies, politics, and suspense are subjects a THE CHILDREN'S CRUSADE BY ANN PACKER The Children’s Crusade is a deeply thoughtful book about a California family struggling to overcome “maternal deprivation”. Author Ann Packer slowly builds up steam in her recent novel, and she brings to life a very real household whose inhabitants could live n A DEAD WRITER, A CURIOUS TEEN, AND A CRIME IN "FINDERS In the past couple of decades, Stephen King has made a decided shift from horror to thriller/supernatural, a shift that has turned me into a huge fan. Previously unable to finish his books out of sheer terror, I am chomping at the bit for the thrillers. Finders Keepers , thesequel to Mr
BROKEN LIVES, AN UNSOLVED MURDER, AND A CAVE: ALL PART OF “The panic he felt then was unlike any he’d known before. A sensation of being trapped in someplace small, and abandoned in someplace endless, all at once.” These are the thoughts contemplated by the protagonist in Michael Koryta's Last Words "IN A DARK, DARK WOOD", BY RUTH WARE This is a modern day whodunit that reads much like an Agatha Christie mystery except with current technologies like cell reception and texting capability. Five women and one man gather for a ‘hen’ party, the British equivalent of an American bachelorette party, to celebrate the nuptials of Clare. Su BEYOND THE COVERHOME AND REVIEWS FOR BEYOND THE COVER The Sympathizer’s narrator is a double agent - a man of “two minds”.He’s half-French, half-Vietnamese, an Army Captain in the Vietnamese Army, while spying for the Communists. As an attache to a high ranking Vietnamese General, he has access to top secret information, American intelligence, and a ticket to the United States after the fall of Saigon.NEWS + OPINION
Former GE Exec, Beth Comstock, branches out with "Change Makers" March 17, 2018 Vickie Vickie BEYOND THE COVERHOME AND REVIEWS FOR BEYOND THE COVER A sure sign of a great book is the feeling of emptiness that comes over you when it ends. This is how I felt turning the final page of David Arnold’s debut novel, Mosquitoland. I was turned on to this novel after reading a book review that made the claim that this story would be the next big thing in young adult literature. BEYOND THE COVERHOME AND REVIEWS FOR BEYOND THE COVER I stayed awake nights to read this. I couldn’t wait to reach the end, then hated when it was over. It’s that good. I read Jennifer Egan’s A Visit from the Goon Squad several years ago and liked it well enough. Egan’s latest, Manhattan Beach, far exceeds its predecessor. Egan's first work of historical fiction was diligently researched over several years, and takes place in New York as THE END OF CIVILIZATION AS WE KNOW IT IN "STATION ELEVEN Station Eleven ’s storyline seamlessly moves between present day and the post-apocalyptic world that remains after most of the human population is decimated by a catastrophic world-wide pandemic. In a strangely non- "end of the world" book fashion, it starts off in themi
"35 BOOKS EVERY DESIGNER SHOULD READ" FROM FAST COMPANY I've worked with a lot of designers throughout my career with a range of knowledge and expertise. Some have been great talents and some, well, needed a little more time to percolate. The common thread throughout though has been their creative drive expressed in COMING OF AGE IN POST WWII LONDON IN "WARLIGHT", BY I’ve read all but one of Michael Ondaatje’s novels, with varying degrees of enjoyment - ranging from really good to wonderful. Each are unique in subject and in method of unraveling their stories; however, all retain Ondaatje’s style. It’s a style that is hard to describe - at once uncomplicated in FORMER GE EXEC, BETH COMSTOCK, BRANCHES OUT WITH "CHANGE Beth Comstock, formerly GE's CMO and Vice Chair, has had a successful career. She spent more than 20 years with GE and served on the Board of Nike. She's worked for two of the most high powered CEO's in the world and managed the corporate labyrinth, helping to OFFBEAT AND FUN WITH “FUTURISTIC VIOLENCE AND FANCY SUITS This has to be the strangest and one of the most fun books I’ve read. And I would never had picked it up had it not been for a youngin’ at work. He was describing the morbidly funny t.v. shows and books he’s into. None sound appealing, but he was pretty passionate about David Wong. I think I probabl A REMARKABLE MEMOIR: "EDUCATED", BY TARA WESTOVER Having no expectation when I picked this book up based on a friend’s recommendation, I was surprised by this jarring true story and the austerity with which it was told. Author Tara Westover has written a memoir about her upbringing in Idaho, living under the iron fists of her father and brother, bo BEYOND THE COVERHOME AND REVIEWS FOR BEYOND THE COVER The Sympathizer’s narrator is a double agent - a man of “two minds”.He’s half-French, half-Vietnamese, an Army Captain in the Vietnamese Army, while spying for the Communists. As an attache to a high ranking Vietnamese General, he has access to top secret information, American intelligence, and a ticket to the United States after the fall of Saigon.NEWS + OPINION
Former GE Exec, Beth Comstock, branches out with "Change Makers" March 17, 2018 Vickie Vickie BEYOND THE COVERHOME AND REVIEWS FOR BEYOND THE COVER A sure sign of a great book is the feeling of emptiness that comes over you when it ends. This is how I felt turning the final page of David Arnold’s debut novel, Mosquitoland. I was turned on to this novel after reading a book review that made the claim that this story would be the next big thing in young adult literature. BEYOND THE COVERHOME AND REVIEWS FOR BEYOND THE COVER I stayed awake nights to read this. I couldn’t wait to reach the end, then hated when it was over. It’s that good. I read Jennifer Egan’s A Visit from the Goon Squad several years ago and liked it well enough. Egan’s latest, Manhattan Beach, far exceeds its predecessor. Egan's first work of historical fiction was diligently researched over several years, and takes place in New York as THE END OF CIVILIZATION AS WE KNOW IT IN "STATION ELEVEN Station Eleven ’s storyline seamlessly moves between present day and the post-apocalyptic world that remains after most of the human population is decimated by a catastrophic world-wide pandemic. In a strangely non- "end of the world" book fashion, it starts off in themi
"35 BOOKS EVERY DESIGNER SHOULD READ" FROM FAST COMPANY I've worked with a lot of designers throughout my career with a range of knowledge and expertise. Some have been great talents and some, well, needed a little more time to percolate. The common thread throughout though has been their creative drive expressed in COMING OF AGE IN POST WWII LONDON IN "WARLIGHT", BY I’ve read all but one of Michael Ondaatje’s novels, with varying degrees of enjoyment - ranging from really good to wonderful. Each are unique in subject and in method of unraveling their stories; however, all retain Ondaatje’s style. It’s a style that is hard to describe - at once uncomplicated in FORMER GE EXEC, BETH COMSTOCK, BRANCHES OUT WITH "CHANGE Beth Comstock, formerly GE's CMO and Vice Chair, has had a successful career. She spent more than 20 years with GE and served on the Board of Nike. She's worked for two of the most high powered CEO's in the world and managed the corporate labyrinth, helping to OFFBEAT AND FUN WITH “FUTURISTIC VIOLENCE AND FANCY SUITS This has to be the strangest and one of the most fun books I’ve read. And I would never had picked it up had it not been for a youngin’ at work. He was describing the morbidly funny t.v. shows and books he’s into. None sound appealing, but he was pretty passionate about David Wong. I think I probabl A REMARKABLE MEMOIR: "EDUCATED", BY TARA WESTOVER Having no expectation when I picked this book up based on a friend’s recommendation, I was surprised by this jarring true story and the austerity with which it was told. Author Tara Westover has written a memoir about her upbringing in Idaho, living under the iron fists of her father and brother, bo BEYOND THE COVERHOME AND REVIEWS FOR BEYOND THE COVER Station Eleven’s storyline seamlessly moves between present day and the post-apocalyptic world that remains after most of the human population is decimated by a catastrophic world-wide pandemic.In a strangely non- "end of the world" book fashion, it starts off in the midst of a Shakespeare play and the Bard, through his works, seems to almost become a character in the story. BEYOND THE COVERHOME AND REVIEWS FOR BEYOND THE COVER When I saw Rush in the window of Square Books in Oxford, Mississippi, I was anxious to read it. The cover art popped (yes, it’s important) and I was curious to see how the experience of sorority rush is portrayed in current times. GLACIERS BY ALEXIS M. SMITH Glaciers is a careful and quiet book. Alexis M. Smith uses straightforward prose in an authentic voice to bring her lead character, Isabel to life in her debut novel. Isabel is a 28-year old native of Alaska, living in Portland. She works with damaged books inthe library, and
INTENSELY INTIMATE WITH “THIRTEEN WAYS OF LOOKING”, BY Colum McCann is truly a master of his craft. This is my first read of McCann’s library of work, but his evocative nature begs further discovery. In the midst of writing Thirteen Ways of Looking , McCann himself was attacked while trying to help a woman who CONTINUING THE LEGACY IN "EVERYBODY'S FOOL", BY RICHARD DISCLAIMER: Because of my complete Richard Russo adoration, this review could suffer from some bias. Everybody’s Fool is the sequel to Russo’s 1993 novel, Nobody’s Fool . Since the latter goes down as my top book of all time, I approached this one with some trepidation. It was all for naught. In WHO ARE THE GOOD GUYS IN “THE DIRECTOR”, BY DAVID IGNATIUS Taking a page from Sara’s post asking authors of children’s books to stop underestimating their audienceDear writers of political suspense novels: please stop slighting women. These novels have a wider audience than the dudes they’re targeted to. Spies, politics, and suspense are subjects a BROKEN LIVES, AN UNSOLVED MURDER, AND A CAVE: ALL PART OF “The panic he felt then was unlike any he’d known before. A sensation of being trapped in someplace small, and abandoned in someplace endless, all at once.” These are the thoughts contemplated by the protagonist in Michael Koryta's Last Words "TRUE STORY: MURDER, MEMOIR, MEA CULPA", BY MICHAEL FINKEL I read True Story: Murder, Memoir, Mea Culpa after watching the movie version that came out in early 2015. The plot is certainly movie material. A disgraced New York Times reporter, Mike Finkel, and a suspected murderer of his entire family, Christian Longo, strike up anunusual relations
A DEAD WRITER, A CURIOUS TEEN, AND A CRIME IN "FINDERS In the past couple of decades, Stephen King has made a decided shift from horror to thriller/supernatural, a shift that has turned me into a huge fan. Previously unable to finish his books out of sheer terror, I am chomping at the bit for the thrillers. Finders Keepers , thesequel to Mr
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"BENEATH WHITE STARS: HOLOCAUST PROFILES IN POETRY", BY HOLLY MANDELKERN - POETRY REVIEWJune 24, 2019
Elizabeth
Not a big reader of poetry, mostly because I’m too literal to understand most of it, I picked up _Beneath White Stars: Holocaust Profiles in Poetry_ with trepidation. Lucky for me, this book of poetry is unlike any I’ve ever read, in the best of ways. While the poems (as you can surmise from the book’s title) are harrowing and tragic, within them are tales of kindness, survival and redemption. Grouped together in sections somewhat like chapters, after each section, Mandelkern provides a historical back story for each poem. In her prologue, she encourages readers to read each poem, turn to the back story, and then perhaps contemplate the poem again. I did this and found the poems much more meaningful the second time around, especially for a left brained person such as I am. Beneath White Stars: Holocaust Profiles in PoetryBy Holly Mandelkern
Mandelkern’s poems touch on every part of the Holocaust, from the savagery of the atrocities committed by the Nazis to specifically named heroes who risked their own lives to save those of persecuted Jews. She writes of the exquisite care and lengths Jews took to document what was happening to them and to find ways to preserve those histories. She pens of the _Kindertransport_, rescue efforts made to get Jewish children to England out of harm’s way. And while she writes of the importance of theses escapes for the lives of the children, she captures the children’s fear and the utter heartbreak and selflessness of the parents who put their children on trains with mainly the clothes on their backs heading into the arms of strangers. She writes of a marriage consecrated out of necessity and performed in a wedding dress made out of parachutes which ultimately resulted in a seventy-year union full of love and gratitude. Despite all of these events happening decades ago, every time I flipped from a poem to the history portion and discovered that one of the subjects of the poem lived beyond the war, I silently cheered. Mandelkern is Jewish and clearly has personal reasons for wanting to share her poetry, but her efforts go well beyond the personal. She is a prolific scholar of history and has traveled to many of the places and met many of the people of which she writes. She is a skilled poetess who turns page long stories into four and five stanza poems. She is judicious and economical in word choice but still brings forthall the emotion.
Just like the documentarians during the Holocaust, she, too, is a carrier of the torch for this history so devastatingly brutal but also such proof of the human instinct for survival. As we lose the last living souls that actually experienced this tortured time in our history, poets and historians like Mandelkern will carry the stories forward ensuring that, indeed, we never forget.Published: 2017
Publisher: Almondseed Press Elizabeth’s rating: 4.5 stars In Religion , Poetry, WWII Tags 2017
, Mandelkern , AlmondseedPress
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"BAD BLOOD: SECRETS AND LIES IN A SILICON VALLEY STARTUP", BY JOHN CARREYROU - BOOK REVIEW April 21, 2019 Elizabeth This book is proof positive that a free press is paramount to our society. Wall Street Journal investigative reporter, John Carreyou, with the help of some very brave mid-level ex-employees, took down a company valued at $10 billion in a multi-article investigative expose. And, this company, Theranos, and its leaders, Elizabeth Holmes and Sunny Balwani, deserve way worse than what they’ve gotten so far. Carreyou reports on Holmes’ career starting off as an inventive kid growing into a nineteen-year-old Stanford dropout with big ideas and then into a multibillion dollar venture capitalist wizard. Holmes’ goal? To revolutionize some aspect of the medical field. Her idea? Blood collection technology that would do hundreds of tests on a mere pinprick of blood. The problem was the technology didn’t (and still doesn’t) exist. And what limited technology she did cobble together didn’t work.Read More
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SHARP AND INTELLIGENT POST-WAR VIETNAM IN "THE SYMPATHIZER", BY VIET THANH NGUYEN - BOOK REVIEWMarch 24, 2019
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Author Viet Thanh Nguyen won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for this book in 2016 and a litany of other awards. It’s been in my “to be read” stack for quite some time, though I held off for a while as it seemed a weighty book. Indeed, it was, but well worth it. _The Sympathizer_ successfully combines historical fiction, social commentary, and dark wit into a thoughtful narrative of post-Vietnamwar.
The Sympathizer: A Novel (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction) By Viet Thanh Nguyen _The Sympathizer_’s narrator is a double agent - a man of “two minds”. He’s half-French, half-Vietnamese, an Army Captain in the Vietnamese Army, while spying for the Communists. As an attache to a high ranking Vietnamese General, he has access to top secret information, American intelligence, and a ticket to the United States after the fall of Saigon. Having spent his university years in the Unites States, he is able to more easily navigate the cultural differences than his fellow refugees, though racism is pervasive throughout - from his own countrymen as he, himself is mixed race, and from Americans’ distrust of the ‘yellow’ infiltration of the “Boat People”. Nguyen deftly portrays our protagonist’s two minds - sympathetic to both the southern vietnamese culture and to the communist cause; of an American mindset and longing for his homeland; of friend, lover, and confidant in the shadow of betrayal. Sometime brutally harsh with descriptions of torture, at other times with sardonic humor, _The Sympathizer_ is a well-written philosophical look at racism, brutality in both war and “peace”, and survival.Published: 2015
Publisher: Grove Press Vickie’s rating: 4 stars In Cultural , Historical Fiction, Politics
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THE SOCIAL LADDER AND SORORITY LIFE IN "RUSH", BY LISA PATTON - BOOKREVIEW
February 3, 2019
Elizabeth
When I saw _Rush_ in the window of Square Books in Oxford, Mississippi, I was anxious to read it. The cover art popped (yes, it’s important) and I was curious to see how the experience of sorority rush is portrayed in current times. Surprisingly, or maybe not, it does not seem to have changed much in the thirty years since I went through it. While this book is in large part about rush, it delves into weightier topics such as generational racism and the inequities in pay and benefits to people of color. Set in Oxford at Ole Miss, the story is told through the eyes of three main characters: Miss Pearl, the beloved African American house keeper in the fictional Alpha Delta Omega sorority; Cali, an un-“pedigreed” freshman from a small blue color Mississippi town; and, Wilda, Alpha Delt/Ole Miss alum and mom to another incoming freshman, Ellie. No good tale can be told without a villain and Patton’s Lilith Whitmore, in her powder blue rompers and matching David Yurman jewelry, rivals Streep’s Miranda Priestly in The Devil Wears Prada. Not far behind her in wicked intent is her aptly Southern named daughter, Annie Laurie, who rises at 6am to do her hair and makeup before 9am class.Read More
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2018 , St. Martins Press, Patton
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THREE MINI BOOK REVIEWS OF AUTHORS APEKINA, HARRIS, AND CROSLEYJanuary 19, 2019
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Here are reviews for three books published last year to catch up on before a busy 2019 year of reading. _The Deeper the Water the Uglier the Fish,_ Novel by Katya Apekina Author Katya Apekina has written an unusual book that spans years and complex characters. It centers on the relationship of two sisters, their mentally ill mother, and distant, self-absorbed father. After Edie finds her mother, Marianne, hanging from a rafter, Marianne is put in a hospital to rehabilitate. Edie and her sister, Mae are sent from their home outside New Orleans to live with their estranged father in New York. With differing feelings on the matter, Mae and Edie are quite close, yet the presence of Daniel, their father, opens the door to a history they were not prepared to face. Edie, reluctant and loyal to Marianne wants to return home to resume their old life. Mae, alarmingly similar to Marianne, wants to remain in New York and connect with Daniel. And things get a bit weird.Read More
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TWO WORKS ON THE TRIBULATIONS OF SCIENTOLOGY: "BEYOND BELIEF" AND "PERFECTLY CLEAR" - BOOK REVIEWSDecember 31, 2018
Elizabeth
A confession: I am weirdly obsessed with Scientology. And not for any positive reason but because I continue to be amazed that what is clearly a vicious cult continues to hoard literally billions of dollars of cash, skirt tax regulations, and subject its participants to what would in any other circumstance be considered slave labor all in the name of ‘religion’. I have read volumes and watched hours on the organization and one thing remains ‘clear’: they are a tough group with which to tangle. In the last month, I listened to Jenna Miscaviage Hill’s audiobook _Beyond Belief_ and read Michelle LeClair’s book _Perfectly Clear_. Although their experiences within the church were vastly different, their criticisms are perfectly aligned with one another as well as with other defectors from the church. Jenna Miscaviage Hill, although not born into Scientology, was a member from a very young age. Her parents joined and became members of the Sea Org early on. Touted as a privilege and honor to be a member of this internal ‘leadership’ group, the work is arduous and the pay is criminal. Members are expected to work 14 hour days and have family time for less than 10 hours a weekend. Parents spend virtually no time with their children. Once Jenna reached elementary school age, she was shipped off to The Ranch where she was required to do exhausting physical labor and her education consisted of primarily church related things.Read More
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, LeClair , Miscavige Hill, HarperAudio
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DOPESICK: DEALERS, DOCTORS, AND THE DRUG COMPANY THAT ADDICTED AMERICA, BY BETH MACY - BOOK REVIEWDecember 16, 2018
Elizabeth
If you’re looking for an uplifting read, pass this one up. If you’re interested in serious anecdotal and statistical research into the opioid epidemic in this country, read it. Macy focuses mainly on the epidemic in and around her home town of Roanoke and in some of the poorer white areas of the Appalachia’s, but the book is global in its application. Macy interviewed and garnered the confidence of numerous users, users’ families and even a drug dealer, serving a 23-year prison sentence for heroin distribution. Interestingly, that dealer never did ‘herr-on’ as he refers to heroin. He was wise enough to know that his using would only result in his own addiction which would eat into his profits. While he might be a large fish in the dealing pond, he is hardly responsible for the epidemic. Many of the white addicts he sold to turned into dealers themselves just so they could fund their own habits. And small time players can make addicts just as quickly as bigones.
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NEW YORK OF "THE DAKOTA WINTERS", BY TOM BARBASH IS HIGHLY THOUGHTFUL AND READABLE - BOOK REVIEWDecember 9, 2018
Vickie
Invoking so much of factual 1979 New York, I had to look twice to ensure I was reading a work of fiction. Indeed, author Tom Barbash used real events of that year as a backdrop for his novel, _The Dakota Winters_. We meet the Winters family through the voice of 23-year old Anton whom returns early from a Peace Corps assignment in Africa, having contracted malaria. Anton arrives in time to help his father Buddy Winters, America’s premier and loved talk show host, recover his career from walking off the set during a monologue and disappearing for months. After much self-reflection, Buddy makes ready for his comeback and needs his son’s support to do so. With maturity and poise beyond his years, Anton traverses his father’s fragile emotions, regaining the trust of those in the business whom felt betrayed by Buddy’s walk off, his mother and siblings trepidation about his father’s readiness for return to t.v., and his own growth as an adult and professional. All of this takes place with his home as the anchor - The Dakota - a real building in Manhattan’s Upper West Side and home to New York’s wealthy, including the Winters, restaurant magnates, authors, artists, and of course, John Lennon and Yoko Ono.Read More
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A REMARKABLE MEMOIR: "EDUCATED", BY TARA WESTOVER - BOOK REVIEWNovember 16, 2018
Vickie
Having no expectation when I picked this book up based on a friend’s recommendation, I was surprised by this jarring true story and the austerity with which it was told. Author Tara Westover has written a memoir about her upbringing in Idaho, living under the iron fists of her father and brother, both abusive in different ways, yet all in the name of religion and family good. Westover begins her childhood largely in isolation from mainstream society helping with her father’s scrap business and watching her older siblings leave one by one. Her father, self-righteous, delusional, and paranoid, managed the family by fear. Her mother followed him regardless of his destructive path. The family did not believe in organized education nor modern medicine, and had a great distrust for the government. Tara and her siblings were “home schooled”. Except really, they were not academically educated at all unless they sought to teach themselves. Injuries, of which there were many, were treated by their mother with essential oils and energyhealing.
Educated: A Memoir
By Tara Westover
Westover had the intelligence and fortitude to understand, even as a child, that hers was not a healthy environment. She’s built up defenses to survive, yet it was not enough, and she had the fortitude to pursue a formal education. In doing so, this small act of defiance created a riff with some in her family, yet it helped to grow her awareness of the world and her own place in it. And over time, she confronted her family’s abuse. _Educated_ is about a family in crisis that calls to mind Marry Karr’s _Liar’s Club_. These people are severely broken, yet the author finds her inner strength to break away and discover her own path, fraught with its own challenges. Westover’s narrative style is without melodrama - she soberly conveys her experiences and emotional struggles, sometimes including the perspectives of siblings. She is quite remarkable for not only surviving, but earning her doctorate at Oxford and creating a career and life for herself; although, I’m sure still deals with the aftermath of her family’sdecisions and hers.
Published: 2018
Publisher: Random House Vickie’s rating: 5 stars In Biography , Memoir, Family Tags
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"A HEART IN THE BODY OF THE WORLD", BY DEB CALETTIOctober 5, 2018
Elizabeth
Finding it marketed as Young Adult, I picked this book up with little expectation. Boy, was I in for a surprise. It grabbed me from the start and never let go until the very end which I read with tears dripping onto the pages. In the opening scene, Annabelle, the main character, has a mild encounter with some overly flirtatious boys that sets her off on a ten-mile sprint - in her school clothes and flats while still holding her fast food drink cup. At this point, we understand that there is clearly something going on with her. A Heart in a Body in the WorldBy Deb Caletti
After spending the night in a hotel just a couple of miles from home, she decides she’s going to run across the country. On her own. She doesn’t know how or really why, but she can’t stay in her current circumstance. Her loud Italian mom, Gina, is having none of it, but younger brother Malcolm, her biggest cheerleader, understands and helps her get going. And, on her second day of running, her true guardian angel, Grandpa Ed, shows up in his RV to follow her during the day and house her during the night. Annabelle’s tragedy comes out piece by piece. We learn she is going to have to face Sean Greggory but we don’t know who he is. We learn of The Taker, a boy whom she never names, but we know she had a relationship with him that went very wrong. We learn of her old boyfriend, Will, and her best friend, Kat, and how she has mental conversations with them. As Annabelle goes through staggering physical challenges on her cross country run, so, too, does she emotionally. At first, she is consumed by guilt and shame. Then grief. Then rage. Which carries her through all those times when she just wants to quit. “When you are a human being, you must decide and decide again to go forward. You must, or you won’t move from the worst that life offers to here……” Caletti writes a breathtakingly beautiful story about so much pain. And, without giving away the story, I will just say that she touches on a number of today’s very hot topics with searing clarity. She writes from the perspective of a teenage girl in a fashion that makes it hard to believe she isn’t one. She shows how ALL love has its weaknesses, that no love is perfect, but what IS perfect is that we keep on trying. She speaks of activism and how all it takes is one person to start a chain reaction. “People plus people plus anger is how things can change.” This is not a young adult book. This is an EVERYONE book. I think it should be required reading for all of those going through life. Caletti captures the frailty of the human existence while simultaneously extolling the absolute strength that can come from the human spirit – even one that seems crushed beyond recovery. A compelling story with outstanding writing, _A Heart in a Body in the World_ is ALL HEART.Published: 2018
Publisher: Simon Pulse Elizabeth’s rating: 5 starsIn Family , Fiction
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