I had no idea Lionel Shriver was female. The entire time I listened to this book on audio I was picturing a male writer describing visceral and extremely deep and fundamentally female emotions as well as the kinds of things mothers are not “supposed” to say. I was puzzled and amazed that a male writer [...]
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February 10, 2010
Review – The Red Tent
Anita Diamant’s The Red Tent is the story of Jacob’s daughter Dinah, based on the book of Genesis, and told from her perspective. At first I was puzzled by the begatting and seeming lack of plot, but the more the story went on the more I was intrigued. The pace was a bit sluggish, but [...]
February 6, 2010
Review – The Housekeeper and the Professor
Some books are a love letter to reading. Some a love letter to literature or history. The Housekeeper and the Professor is a love letter to mathematics and a simple yet elegant look at the human condition. It examines what it means to be a family and is such a non-traditional novel – a breath of [...]
