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Fathermothergod My Journey Out of Christian Science
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Lucia Greenhouse
Sandy Lipovsky
, September 11, 2011
I just finished the book (which accompanied me everywhere I went so any free moments could be spent reading) and am pensive. Lucia Greenhouse writes like a tractor-beam--pulling the reader into the book as a standby character. I had known little of the practices of Christian Science and nothing of the dilemmas families face when not all members practice Science. I have thought about how I would have acted in a similar situation and, believe me, I have no answer yet. This is a compelling memoir to read and with a LOT to think about when finished.
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Last Days of Ptolemy Grey
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Walter Mosley
Sandy Lipovsky
, March 06, 2011
I opened the book at 4PM and spent 5 mesmerizing hours inside the pages. I am tempted to open the book again and be finished in time for bed----the first comment on here is by a Michelle and I want to borrow her words "Oh, delicious" for indeed it is.
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Even Silence Has an End My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle
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Ingrid Betancourt
Sandy Lipovsky
, January 25, 2011
Ingrid Betancourt brings us into the jungle with her so vividly that we can feel the ant bites and smell the stench of unwashed humans held captive in close quarters. How she used her wits and courage to survive six years held as a political prisoner and, even more, how she mentally relived the experience over and over so that we might know the truth is beyond belief. The writing is so well-thought out that one feels as if Ingrid is sitting across from you telling you the story personally.
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Mary Ann in Autumn
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Armistead Maupin
Sandy Lipovsky
, November 19, 2010
When Michael Tolliver Lives was published I settled into the warmth of a family reunion - for the characters in the Tales of the City series had become my good friends. It was wonderful to catch up with Michael and learn what he has been doing these past years. And now, Mary Ann has come back to town! I got out a nice bottle of Cabernet for the occasion and put on the fleece PJ's (for it is that time of year here in the Northwest). And then I opened the book and was transported to San Francisco and yet another reunion of my good friends. And as corny as that might sound, anyone who 'lived' with the Tales of the City will understand perfectly.
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Even Silence Has an End My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle
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Ingrid Betancourt
Sandy Lipovsky
, October 31, 2010
I had read Until Death Do Us Part about Ingrid Betancourt's political hopes and aspirations and the hurdles she faced prior to her abduction by the FARC and I knew that I wanted to know more about her. Seeing her on television after her rescue reinforced my thoughts that this was an incredible figure in human and political history. Even Silence Has an End is the story of her life as a hostage in the Colombian jungle for six and a half years. I am mindful that it also is the story of many other hostages held in the jungle during the same time. How can someone write so beautifully about something so horrifying? The basic thought that she survived is in itself amazing but it is the courage and dignity she maintained that is inspiring. I am left with a deep respect for Ingrid Betancourt and am inspired by her fierce determination to maintain her dignity, faith, and honor when all else had been taken from her. Her story is incredible and the writing is beautiful.
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The Amazing Absorbing Boy
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Rabindranath Maharaj
Sandy Lipovsky
, April 04, 2010
While this is the story of a young boy from Trinidad learning to survive as an immigrant in Toronto, the "from-and-to" places could be any number of other countries and big cities. The story begins when 17 year old Samuel's mother is near death. After she passes, Samuel lives with an uncle in the local town. Later, he is sent from Trinidad to live with his "good-for-nothing" dad who had disappeared to Toronto many years before. This book is a wonderfully woven tale of place, out-of-place, truth, fiction, family, adaptation and memories. Samuel's fascination with comic book heroes allows him to understand and befriend interesting characters others might cross the street to avoid. Written with a Trinidadian accent, I found myself thinking in that accent which means I had been absorbed into the book and taken away by the story.
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A Pigeon and a Boy
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Meir Shalev
Sandy Lipovsky
, March 18, 2010
The publisher promised a tale of love then and now and the importance of returning to a home of one's own. There are two stories in this book, one set in the 'now' and the other set in the 'then'.--yet both stories ovrrlap and near the end of the book are woven into something beautiful. I loved this book and will have some of the images with me for many many months.
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Childrens Party Handbook
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Alison Boteler
Sandy Lipovsky
, February 14, 2009
I am writing a review quickly before I order the last copy Powell's has on hand. This book is not new (1986) but has the BEST ideas for children's parties, all the way from food to cakes to games to decorations. I am ordering this one for my daughter and will keep watching for more copies to come in for some baby showers coming up.
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Jewel Of Medina
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Sherry Jones
Sandy Lipovsky
, February 12, 2009
I enjoyed Jewel of Medina. While I somewhat agree with earlier comments about the focus on romance, I disagree that it is inappropriate. The narrator is a very young girl who is married to a Prophet and her standing in the harim is critical to her well-being and happiness. Each time the Prophet takes a new wife, the child-bride sees it as a threat to his feeling for her, not for the political alliance that may have been formed because of the marriage. The perspective of the story is from a very young girl and follows her life into her late teen years. The weaving of politics and religion, life in a harim, the politics of a community and a glimpse of life during the early days of Islam was vey good.
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Dizzy City
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Nicholas Griffin
Sandy Lipovsky
, January 16, 2009
What begins in the trenches of World War I quickly switches to New York City and the world of flimflam men (and women). The intrigue of this yet another remarkable book by Nicholas Griffin is the world of the con. Not just con men and their marks, but con men (and women) conning each other. At times the reader can be also conned and that is part of the joy of this novel - to realize that all is not as it seems to be. The more the reader tries to figure out the con game - the more the reader becomes yet another 'mark' in this intricate plot. Not to be put down, this novel would make a fabulous on screen adaptation.
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Until Death Do Us Part: My Struggle to Reclaim Colombia
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Ingrid Betancourt
Sandy Lipovsky
, January 13, 2009
Ingrid Betancourt had the option of living a life of money, culture, parties, and certainly safety for herself and her children. Instead, driven by an undeniable need to "do something" for her people of Columbia, she enters a life of politics, and not the kind we are used to in the Western world. This is the story of her passion to change a system terminally diseased by greed, drug money, and "politics for sale". She risks her life, quite literally, to enact change and even separates herself from her children when they become at risk for death threats. This story is written with the same passion that led her into politics and we understand why the book itself would have posed a threat to her life: she names names, reveals scandals, and tells the real story of Colombian politics. This book does not cover her long period of captivity in the jungle and I hope that book is soon to come.
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