Kivrin, a historian and student at Oxford in 2054, plans a trip to the Middle Ages using the well-established technology of “the net.” She must do extensive research in order to blend in with the locals. The history department’s technicians must perform complex calculations to get her to the right location. Her instructors carefully set up a rendezvous to bring her back. No one has ever traveled to the fourteenth century before. Kivrin’s favorite professor, Mr. Dunworthy, is deeply worried for her. However, Kivrin has […]
Go ahead, judge a book by its cover.
When my fiance started reading for pleasure again, but before he focused on hard sci-fi, he picked books on how attractive he found the cover art. And here’s the link to my review.
Someone: A Novel by Alice McDermott
It’s hard to give a plot summary for this novel because I’m not sure there is a clear plot line. The narrator Marie gives us her life story, an ordinary life with love and loss, births and deaths, set in Brooklyn from her 1920s’ girlhood through WWII, then marriage and family. It’s about what happens to her, her neighbors, her parents and brother. These are ordinary lives but no life is really just ordinary. There’s always more to people than you realize. McDermott’s writing is […]
Yep, that’s a lot of pages…
I’m not quite sure what I was thinking when I chose a 1300+ page book as my first Cannonball Read selection.
Books Everywhere, What Are You Gonna Read
This is a book I had looked forward to since I first heard of it. A book about books and a special book store? Yes, please! To read the rest of my review, follow the link to my blog!
When neighbors stop being polite…
“In the old days, if a builder had a problem, that problem would end up in pieces in the wet concrete: it became part of the building it had tried to obstruct. A bit of calcium was good for the foundations. But those days were gone: the lawless days of the 1980s and ’90s.” (321) The White Tiger was one of my favorite books of the year when I read it back in 2008. For that reason, I knew I would have to eventually get […]
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