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 got very hungry as I read Day of Honey. I got a lot of new cooking ideas. On a more serious note, I appreciated getting a better view of Iraq's domestic culture than is possible from reading the news. Above all, Anna Ciezadlo's articulates beautifully that cooking for each other and sharing food is what distinguishes humans from animals, and she offers lots of examples from the exciting first year of her marriage to prove this.
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Narrative nonfiction? I didn't know what this meant when I read the NYT review of this book. What it means is a very readable history based on stories about people, with historical context woven in. I thought often of Kathryn Stockett's The Help when I read this book, as they are equally vivid in showing me a world I am glad to know more about.
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Sana'a is very rarely written about it in English. It is especially not written about in English by a woman. It's a pleasure to find this memoir of Jennifer Steil's year in Yemen, rebuilding and reorganizing a twice-weekly English-language newspaper. Ms Steil writes about Middle-Eastern politics, domestic Muslim life, gender roles in Yemen, and about how journalists get out the news. She also writes about falling in love with the British Ambassador to Yemen. This part of her book is kicking up a bit of a scandal, which will be interesting to watch.
This memoir of the early days at the New Yorker has a double-star appeal. James Thurber's writing is fantastically clear and also hilarious. Howard Ross' life and management style beg for portraiture. Thurber has one great anecdote after another about how Ross developed the New Yorker's lucid prose style and signature cartoonage. This book captures not only an important relationship between two icons of literature, but also a golden era of writing.
This is a book about American slavery so plain and truthful that every detail resonated with me. I was especially interested that this book, while told from the point of view of a very empathetic young enslaved woman, made it clear that the institution of slavery brutalized all who participated in it. This book was published in Canada with the title "The Book of the Negroes".
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Day of Honey: A Memoir of Food, Love, and War by Anna Ciezadlo
lovingreader, April 14, 2011
I got very hungry as I read Day of Honey. I got a lot of new cooking ideas. On a more serious note, I appreciated getting a better view of Iraq's domestic culture than is possible from reading the news. Above all, Anna Ciezadlo's articulates beautifully that cooking for each other and sharing food is what distinguishes humans from animals, and she offers lots of examples from the exciting first year of her marriage to prove this.(1 of 1 readers found this comment helpful)
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
lovingreader, September 30, 2010
Narrative nonfiction? I didn't know what this meant when I read the NYT review of this book. What it means is a very readable history based on stories about people, with historical context woven in. I thought often of Kathryn Stockett's The Help when I read this book, as they are equally vivid in showing me a world I am glad to know more about.(3 of 4 readers found this comment helpful)
The Woman Who Fell from the Sky: An American Journalist in Yemen by Jennifer Steil
lovingreader, June 24, 2010
Sana'a is very rarely written about it in English. It is especially not written about in English by a woman. It's a pleasure to find this memoir of Jennifer Steil's year in Yemen, rebuilding and reorganizing a twice-weekly English-language newspaper. Ms Steil writes about Middle-Eastern politics, domestic Muslim life, gender roles in Yemen, and about how journalists get out the news. She also writes about falling in love with the British Ambassador to Yemen. This part of her book is kicking up a bit of a scandal, which will be interesting to watch.Years with Ross (Perennial Classics) by James Thurber
lovingreader, June 16, 2010
This memoir of the early days at the New Yorker has a double-star appeal. James Thurber's writing is fantastically clear and also hilarious. Howard Ross' life and management style beg for portraiture. Thurber has one great anecdote after another about how Ross developed the New Yorker's lucid prose style and signature cartoonage. This book captures not only an important relationship between two icons of literature, but also a golden era of writing.Someone Knows My Name by Lawrence Hill
lovingreader, December 3, 2009
This is a book about American slavery so plain and truthful that every detail resonated with me. I was especially interested that this book, while told from the point of view of a very empathetic young enslaved woman, made it clear that the institution of slavery brutalized all who participated in it. This book was published in Canada with the title "The Book of the Negroes".(2 of 3 readers found this comment helpful)
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