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Savvy 01
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Ingrid Law
downindenver
, August 10, 2014
Ingrid Law writes of the disasters and magic of becoming a teenager. Mibs discovers her magical powers (her savvy) in the wide open plains of Nebraska. Hers is a world of bible salesmen, talking tattoos, and family. The book is quickly paced and easy to read. If I had a tween, I would foist the book on her. Because I don't, I can only gently recommend the book to all the youngsters I meet.
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Howards End
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E M Forster
downindenver
, March 20, 2008
Don't ask me how I missed E. M. Forster in college, but he's a master. From the first chapter and Helen's letters, I was hooked. The pacing is excellent. The characters are well drawn. This is a comedy of manners, a tragedy of social class. Poor Leonard who only longs for beauty! He dies like the romantic he always wanted to be, but no one seems to notice...not even his wife. The moneyed and genteel Schlegels seem to vie with the up-and-coming Wilcox for the soul of England. No one really wins. Throughout it all, London creeps across the horizon toward Howards End.
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Helmet of Horror The Myth of Theseus & the Minotaur
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Victor Pelevin, Andrew Bromfield
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, March 08, 2008
Pelevin's entry into the Canongate Myth Series is dark and disturbing. If the brain is a computer, as Pelevin writes in the introduction, is mythology the shell program? Have we as a species gotten so old that we can't remember how to fix the shell program? Pelevin's characters (and the reader) are caught in a labyrinth of chat room dialog. They can't see each other, can't find each other, can't touch or know each other. They have names that someone else has assigned to them. No one knows who Theseus is or who the minotaur is. Maybe Pelevin, as the author of the book, is a little bit of both?
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