So, yesterday was the official kick-off of the Keep Portland Weird festival here in Paris, which meant that I had a reading/screening in the...
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I adore this book. It's is everything a good memoir should be: funny, informative, and wise. Not only would I recommend this book to anyone, but if I were rich, I would buy copies and hand it out. It's simply excellent!
Your Presence is Requested at Suvanto is a creepy, compelling novel that makes the most out of its location: Finland. Something is amiss at the sanitarium beside the Baltic Sea. As the wealthy ladies dine on rye bread and cheese and patter beside the windows and as the days grow shorter, the feeling of impending doom increases. I would recommend this novel for anyone who has read and enjoyed Iris Murdoch's The Bell.
Fantastically readable and tremendously informative. As I started reading, I wondered whether Barry Estabrook would be able to fill the entire book on a single subject and maintain his narrative pull. He does. The prose is lively throughout. Each chapter addresses a new topic. We readers are consistently learning new and important and interesting facts. I read it in a week. And it has changed the way I shop. I would recommend this book to anyone! In fact, my husband--who detests the tomato--heard so much about the book from me that he had to read it next. Now he can't wait to buttonhole his family and tell them interesting facts about tomatoes. Excellent book. And I hope it will change the way Florida grows tomatoes and treats workers.
If you've been to Prague recently, you owe it to yourself to read about Prague before the flood of tourists. This memoir is also a wonderful family story--with a thread cast through on the search for beauty.
I adored Gilead. It was a quiet, complex book with characters who were all striving to do the right thing and yet were often unable to connect with each other. The book is backdropped by a fascinating historical time period. Highly recommended.
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Sari, November 20, 2011
I adore this book. It's is everything a good memoir should be: funny, informative, and wise. Not only would I recommend this book to anyone, but if I were rich, I would buy copies and hand it out. It's simply excellent!Your Presence Is Requested at Suvanto by Maile Chapman
Sari, November 20, 2011
Your Presence is Requested at Suvanto is a creepy, compelling novel that makes the most out of its location: Finland. Something is amiss at the sanitarium beside the Baltic Sea. As the wealthy ladies dine on rye bread and cheese and patter beside the windows and as the days grow shorter, the feeling of impending doom increases. I would recommend this novel for anyone who has read and enjoyed Iris Murdoch's The Bell.Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit by Barry Estabrook
Sari, November 20, 2011
Fantastically readable and tremendously informative. As I started reading, I wondered whether Barry Estabrook would be able to fill the entire book on a single subject and maintain his narrative pull. He does. The prose is lively throughout. Each chapter addresses a new topic. We readers are consistently learning new and important and interesting facts. I read it in a week. And it has changed the way I shop. I would recommend this book to anyone! In fact, my husband--who detests the tomato--heard so much about the book from me that he had to read it next. Now he can't wait to buttonhole his family and tell them interesting facts about tomatoes. Excellent book. And I hope it will change the way Florida grows tomatoes and treats workers.Romantic Education by Patricia Hampl
Sari, November 20, 2011
If you've been to Prague recently, you owe it to yourself to read about Prague before the flood of tourists. This memoir is also a wonderful family story--with a thread cast through on the search for beauty.Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
Sari, January 3, 2010
I adored Gilead. It was a quiet, complex book with characters who were all striving to do the right thing and yet were often unable to connect with each other. The book is backdropped by a fascinating historical time period. Highly recommended.(6 of 10 readers found this comment helpful)
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