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Feet of Clay: Discworld: the City Watch Collection
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Terry Pratchett
Jessica Weissman
, March 30, 2015
Excellent mid-career Discworld book, in the form of a murder mystery. We see more about Carrot and Angua, and we watch how Golems achieve their freedom. Introduces the unforgettable Cheery Littlebottom, and shows how Vetinari shapes Vimes. The only Pratchett book with arguably Jewish content, too; there is mention of a Kosher butcher, and the Golem holy days start at sunset.
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Sabbath Its Meaning For Modern Man
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Abraham Heschel
Jessica Weissman
, October 16, 2013
What is distinct about the Sabbath? It isn't all the rules about what you can and can't do. It isn't just a day of leisure. It is the sacred time, the palace in time that comes to us every week, the foretaste of eternity and the profound rest that truly makes up the Sabbath. Heschel writes eloquently about what the Sabbath is, and how it takes us away from what he was already calling, in 1951, techological civilization. This is probably his most accessible book, and most compact statement of his theology. Read it to deepen your understanding of the Sabbath, and of Judaism as a religion of sacred time rather than sacred places or things (idols). Inspiring and beautiful. And the source of the phrase "Eternity utters a day".
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Flour Water Salt Yeast: The Fundamentals of Artisan Bread and Pizza
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Ken Forkish
Jessica Weissman
, January 02, 2013
Here's an artisan bread book that takes a new approach. Ken Forkish includes recipes with timings that are realistic for people with day jobs who can't stay home to tend developing dough. He has several non-perferment recipes that work, as well as preferment and levain recipes that are a notch or two less fussy than some. I've had nothing but good results from his recipes and techniques.
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Akata Witch
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Nnedi Okorafor
Jessica Weissman
, January 19, 2012
Excellent take on the young witch/wizard trope. This one happens in Africa, with a mixture of African and African-American children who have to learn to control their powers and work together. Lots of action, beautiful description, and swift-moving. The author does in under 300 pages what it took JS Rowling seven books to do. One of the best books I've read in several years.
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Red Dust Road An Autobiographical Journey
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Jackie Kay
Jessica Weissman
, March 17, 2011
Jackie Kay is a fine poet and an engaging writer of prose. She told her story as a Black child adopted by two Scots communists in her first book of poetry. Now she has found both of her birth parents, and tells the story in prose. Not like any other birth parent reunion story I've read, cheerful and fascinating and full of Jackie Kay's good humor and serious emotion.
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Breaking of Eggs
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Jim Powell
Jessica Weissman
, January 01, 2011
This is the best piece of fiction I read in 2010. The inaptly-named Feliks finds, in his early sixties, that pretty much everything he thought about his own early life is wrong, and that the political convictions by which he lived his life are also wrong. He actually changes his mind, coming of age very late. This might sound dreary, but it is quite the opposite. The book is shot through with humor, and Feliks and the people he rediscovers make excellent company.
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Eerie Silence
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Paul Davies
Jessica Weissman
, March 23, 2010
Excellent survey of the topic - if there is life out there, why hasn't it contacted us? And what would happen if it did? Davies reviews all the arguments, going far beyond the superficial duality of life being so unlikely that there IS no other life vs the universe being so large that everything, no matter how unlikely, must have happened more than once. Maybe the Earth formed late and developed life so slowly that all the other civilizations have come and gone on those other planets. Or maybe they just don't want to talk to us. Or maybe they are shouting at us, but doing it in a way we don't recognize as communication. After all, electromagnetic signals may turn out to be the most primitive possible method of interstellar communication. Davies is a good clear writer, too. If you have any interest in the topic, don't miss this one.
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Sephardic Jews in America: A Diasporic History
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Aviva Ben-Ur
Jessica Weissman
, March 05, 2009
The first throrough and researched history of Sephardic Jews in America written by a professional historian for a general audience. Fascinating if you're Sephardic, interesting if you're some other kind of Jew, and a sound immigrant story for everyone else.
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Brilliant Orange the Neurotic Genius of Dutch Soccer The Neurotic Genius of Dutch Soccer
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David Winner
Jessica Weissman
, March 05, 2009
How is Dutch soccer connected to Rembrandt and all those other Dutch things? Intimately and directly. Who knew there were interesting, original, and deep books about SOCCER?
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Discworld Graphic Novels The Colour of Magic & the Light Fantastic
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Terry Pratchett
Jessica Weissman
, June 23, 2008
Not just for completists. Gives a new and clearer view into the origins of the Discworld series, and the pictures are really good. Stand on their own as graphic novels.
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July & August
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Nancy Clark
Jessica Weissman
, June 23, 2008
Another satisfying novel from Nancy Clark. Broad set of characters brought together in non-contrived ways. Not quite Jane Austen, but she wouldn't like Maine anyway.
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What It Is
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Lynda Barry
Jessica Weissman
, May 14, 2008
Lynda Barry shares her creative process with you in a book full of great drawings and insights. This is the same stuff she teaches at courses around the country, and it works. Memory and images make fiction, right? And you can start in ten minutes. What It Is is great.
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