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Say the Name: A Survivor's Tale in Prose and Poetry

25 reviews
Judith H. Sherman

University of New Mexico Press, 2005

A woman's perspective
Judith Sherman's Say the Name is a survivor's account of a teenage girl's struggle with God and humanity in Ravensbruck concentration camp during the Holocaust. Sherman, now a wife, mother and grandmother living in the United States, writes her memoir some 50 to 60 years after the Nazi's carried out their "Final Solution." Sherman's poetry and prose in this book reflect a loss of people, ...

First Light

24 reviews
Geoffrey Wellum

Viking Books, 2002

A great story superbly told.
This is one of those books I pick up again and again just to read a random chapter. It is that well written. It tells a story of a generation of people and there unbelievable courage & humility. I know because my own father was one of them. The deeply humourous and self depreciating strong and silent type. I doubt we shall see there like again.

Continental Drift

47 reviews
Christopher Scott Grimaldi

Amazon, 2007

If you enjoy a good metaphor...
"I used to get high on life...but I built up a tolerance." One of the many truthful tidbits that flavors this excerpt of Mr. Grimaldi's novel. Even as we (like Kevin, the photographer protagonist) long for grounded-ness, do we despise the emotional inertia and spiritual complacency of being "settled"? Shall we choose to stay (or to set ourselves) adrift? Or, needing more to cling to, can we ...

Lust for life: A novel of Vincent van Gogh (Zephyr books)

46 reviews
Irving Stone

The Continental Book Co., AB, 1949

Living for Lust
I should have read this biography sooner. I used to be in love with his paintings, and even fantasized that IF I were to travel back in time, I would've married him -- all this BEFORE I read this book. After I read it I found out that there was one such infatuated woman (Margot), and also a tragic unrequited love story that led him to religion and then to painting. Anyone who is creative will ...

Almost a Miracle: The American Victory in the War of Independence

29 reviews

Oxford University Press, USA, 2007

Excellent all around book about Revolutionary War!
What a well written book. This book may look big and overwhelming, but give it a try. The author has a writing style that just consumes you. Before you know you have read 50 pages and learned something new on each page. Gives information on all aspects of the war. I would highly encourage people to read this book.

Seven pillars of wisdom,: A triumph

52 reviews
T. E Lawrence

Continental Book Co, 1946

The Hejaz War
The Hejaz War of 1917 was written by Colonel T.E. Lawrence at the Paris peace talks in 1920 -21. Lawrence understood the Arabs thay did not conquer territory but they brought the Arab tribes together to conquer the Ottoman Turkish Army whom they considered poor soldiers. The Hejaz is the Red Sea coast parallel to the extinct lava fields of the 3,000m high Hejaz mountains. The Hejaz railway, ...

Jorge Luis Borges: Ficciones/Jorge Luis Borges : Stories

72 reviews
Jorge Luis Borges Acevedo

Continental Book Company, 1996

An ingenious labyrinthine narrative....
Borges never fails to please, to challenge, to entertain, and more importantly make one's brain shift into high gear! If you are looking for an easy read, don't expect to find it in Ficciones. However, if you are looking for a little cerebral cortex arousal; grab this book and find a cozy spot...you won't be disappointed! Reading with his head instead of his heart, Borges looks to fill his ...

Iliad and Odyssey boxed set

34 reviews
Homer

Penguin Classics, 1999

The ground is dark with blood
The Iliad With many books, translations are negligible, with two obvious exceptions, one is the Bible, and surprisingly the other is The Iliad. For example: "Rage--Goddess, sing the rage of Peleus' son Achilles, Murderous, doomed, that cost the Achaeans countless losses, hurling down to the House of Death so many souls, great fighters' souls. But made their bodies carrion, feasts ...

A Bridge Too Far: The Classic History of the Greatest Battle of World War II

69 reviews
Cornelius Ryan

Simon & Schuster, 1995

Excellent Introduction in this Important part of WW2 History
I can't say it much better than the previous reviews have already. I wanted to read something on this subject and was led to this book. I couldn't have asked for a better introduction to the topic. Broad in scope yet detailed in its descriptions of the soldiers, units, and battles in this massive offensive. This is an excellent jumping off point to begin studying the Battle of Arnhem. Well ...

Life is Beautiful/La Vita E Bella: A Screenplay

38 reviews
Roberto Benigni, Vincenzo Cerami

Miramax, 1998

pathos and humor = LIFE
Guido, the central character in Life is Beautiful, is one of the most poignant characters in literature. He chooses to create an illusionary world for his son so that Giosue will survive the horrific conditions in a concentration camp. It becomes clear to the reader that Guido makes a decision as soon as he and Giouse are taken to the camp that he will, if necessary, go so far as to sacrifice his ...

Amish Society

15 reviews
John A. Hostetler

The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1980

The definitive source on Amish culture
I have studied Amish culture and mores for some time out of both interest, admiration, and other motivations. And nowhere have I found a better resource than this book. That the author was himself raised Amish only lends to the credible nature of this book. But more importantly is the concise and thorough manner in which this book presents its truths and dispells rumors and myths. It served to ...

El Principito = The Little Prince

20 reviews
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Continental Book Company, 2001

Facinante
Creo que uno de los libros mas lindos que he leido. Es un libro que podes leer a cualquier edad, tendo 18 años y recien lo lei. Es una aventura muy linda que algun dia espero poder leer a mi hijos :) Les recomiendo este libro a todo mundo.

Eugene Onegin: A Novel in Verse (Oxford World's Classics)

16 reviews
Alexander Pushkin

Oxford University Press, USA, 1998

The literary works in Eugene Onegin
Eugene Onegin of Alexander Pushkin, 19th century Russian author who often has been considered his country's greatest poet and the founder of modern Russian literature, presents different kinds of characters whose personal traits have a great relation with the period's social structure. Their different and remarkable personalities are worked up so profoundly that it is possible to see the ...

The Backbone of the World: A Portrait of a Vanishing Way of Life Along the Continental Divide

15 reviews

Broadway, 2002

The dark side: insightful and honest
Anyone interested in reading about the glamorized West - artist retreats in Santa Fe, Denver socialites, ski resorts in million-dollar-home settings - will probably be disappointed in this book. Frank Clifford instead takes the reader to isolated outposts where people are just barely surviving: a sheep rancher north of Vail who lives in a ramshackle trailer; one of the last residents of Jeffrey ...

The Winter Soldiers

14 reviews
Richard M. Ketchum

Anchor, 1991

Wonderful description of a fascinating Campaign
While I tend to read books on military history, I have not read much about the American Revolution. Thus I picked up this book to fill in gaps in my research. I found this book to be a wonderful work describing the American Revolution from its origins through Washington's brilliant winter campaign at Trenton and Princeton. Before covering the battles named in the title, Ketcham provides a solid ...

Mots d'Heures: Gousses, Rames

17 reviews
Luis d'Antin van Rooten

Penguin (Non-Classics), 1980

Wonderful puzzles
If you can read French and if you grew up heaaring Mother Goose rhymes (in English) this book is a MUST HAVE. It presents an almost credible scholarly work about some fragments (in French) from an old civilization. If you will read those fragments aloud, you"ll be able to hear (in English) well known nursery rhymes. Truly fascinating, and soetimes challenging! (Especially if you had never ...

Maldoror and the Complete Works of the Comte de Lautréamont

17 reviews
Comte de Lautréamont

Exact Change, 1994

Step Into Darkness
I like my writers drunk, blasphemous, decadent and French. If any of that list sounds even vaguely familiar then this is the book for you. Set the absinthe fountain to a slow drip, light some candles and prepare to tour an alchemical end-of-the-century underworld.

Book Of Disquiet, The

13 reviews
Fernando Pessoa

Exact Change, 2004

Thinking is absurd
"If i think, it all seems absurd to me; if i feel, it all seems strange; if i desire, he who desires is something inside of me." Sums up the book perfectly. Pessoa explores one of his many personalities. "The Book of Disquiet" explains, in complete depth and faith, the beauty of a lonely, existential, moment by moment life. He explains the beauty that people forget. He explains the world, his ...

The Adams-Jefferson Letters: The Complete Correspondence Between Thomas Jefferson and Abigail and John Adams

20 reviews
John Adams

The University of North Carolina Press, 1988

Not a book about History, this IS History
Have you ever wanted to be a fly on the wall and to be able to share in the thoughts and happenings of important places and people? Well, if your desires in that regard include the office of the Presidency of the United States and the early days following the American Revolution, that is exactly what this book provides. As was typical of statesmen of that day, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams ...

View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems

14 reviews
Wislawa Szymborska

Harvest Books, 1995

Another praise, from a younger reader
This book was and still is my first poetry book; not because I haven't read anyone else's, but it's the first compilation that I was really willing to pay the often outrageous prices for. (LOL) I am not an avid poetry reader, nor am I familiar with the current favorite contemporary poets, but I find that she really does succinctly portray "life's improbability as well as its transient beauty" ...

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