Viet Thanh Nguyen serves as editor for a short but impactful collection of essays about refugees and the refugee experience. I read a lot about immigration. I'm not entirely unaware that many of these stories are actually about refugees, but it's interesting that people often morph themselves into "...
In this fascinating novel, Bezmozgis takes real-life Israeli figures, mixes them together and puts them into practically impossible situations with consequences that a lifetime. You can read my revised review here https://tcl-bookreviews.com/2014/10/11/protections-and-professions/
Baruch Kotler has just arrived in Yalta to find that his hotel reservation has evaporated. His young mistress, Leora, wants to try the other hotels in the Crimean resort town but Baruch is ready to surrender and catch a bus back to the airport. At the station, a woman offers them a room for the week...
Gelungene grenzen- und generationenübergreifende Familiengeschichte.
I’m not putting any stars up on this book; I don’t think it’s fair since I could not go on with it. I listened to most of the audio book before I lost the will to live. I decided to give up with 3 hours left because life is short and there are so many good books out there……but I tried, I really di...
NO SPOILERS!How many people do you know are real heroes? I bet not that many. So why do I want a book to have at least one or two characters that I admire? Well, the book gets kind of depressing otherwise. Why bother reading, all I have to do is turn on the television or look out my window to see th...
The story is split between Whit and Wisty Allgood a brother and sister who live in a totalatarian state that bans almost everything, except what's approved and whats really approved is the cult of The One. The One who is The One is the head of this group and he has strange power over people. Power t...
Definitely not Newbery material, but entertaining and good suspense. Lots of sarcastic teenage humor that my 11-year old loved. It feels like a sequel is coming...
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