Category Archives: Fiction – Important Award Winners

It’s A Christmas Miracle! A review of Julian Barnes’ The Sense of an Ending (by Jill)

It’s interesting that this book came along when it did, while I am in the midst of re-reading a bunch of books I first read as a teenager.  It is a meditation on memory and is not that heavy on … Continue reading

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Anitober Continues (finally) with Yann Martel’s Life of Pi (by Jill)

Anita recommended this book to me years and years ago, probably shortly after it came out in 2001.  There were multiple reasons why I ignored her for a while.  First, the story seemed dumb.  A boy on a lifeboat with … Continue reading

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A Review of Hilary Mantel’s Bring Up the Bodies (by Bethany)

Last week on CNN, Donald Trump was talking again about his suspicions that President Obama was not born in the United States. Anchor John King wasted no words in concluding that Trump’s continuing refusal to let this topic die is … Continue reading

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