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Light Years
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James Salter
Jenny Steele
, August 21, 2007
If Virginia Woolf had been a 1970's American, she might have written a novel like Light Years. The story skims along - cocktail parties, holidays, affairs, triumphs, failures - and then, wham!, a devastating observation about a character or a situation. A very Woolf-like technique, it seems to me. A good, satisfying read.
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Divisadero
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Michael Ondaatje
Jenny Steele
, June 27, 2007
As with all of Ondaatje's works, this novel too is impossible to describe in a neat and tidy way. A violent event in the characters' young lives shatters them all and sends them on wildly different paths. We are taken from the menacing world of brutal poker to a writer's farmhouse in France. Yes, hard to describe. But, as usual, beautifully written with paragraphs or whole sentences you'll find yourself reading out loud.
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Lydia Cassatt Reading The Morning Paper
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Harriet Sc Chessman
Jenny Steele
, May 26, 2007
Set in Paris during the height of Impressionism, this thoughtful story is told from the perspective of Mary Cassatt's sickly sister, Lydia. Because of her ill health, Lydia observes life instead of fully participating in it. But her skills of observation are as keen as those of her sister or her sister's mentor, Degas. The novel's scenes subtly reflect the style of Impressionism - emotions of passion and fear are conveyed with the merest brush strokes. A gem of a novel.
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March
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Geraldine Brooks
Jenny Steele
, April 25, 2007
A darker and deliciously adult companion to Little Women, this novel explores the character of the father of the beloved Jo, Beth, Amy, and Meg. Through half of Alcott's novel, this character is absent, serving as a chaplain to Union troops, but this novel gives us his story. He writes letters to his wife, Marmee, and he tells her what he can - but it's what he can't tell her that is more interesting. You'll want to re-read Little Women directly after reading March (or read it for the first time like me - shame on me!). It's great fun to figure out how these two novels lock together. A fine read.
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Howards End
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E M Forster
Jenny Steele
, March 03, 2007
Now and then it is a pleasure to return to a novel you've read a long time ago, perhaps as a dutiful college student in an English Lit class. Howard's End is one of those novels. Have another go at it and rediscover these characters. "Only connect." Remember that? Yes, through a re-read of this novel, you'll connect again. (And this time you won't have to worry about writing an essay to avoid flunking that lit class!).
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Notes on a Scandal What Was She Thinking A Novel
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Zoe Heller
Jenny Steele
, February 27, 2007
The movie was a treat (if a creepy, disturbing treat) with justly nominated performances by Judi Dench and Cate Blanchett. But I was curious about the novel. It's a great read - less intense than the movie but more incisive in its exploration of the characters. Also, there are exquisitely captured descriptions of self-perceptions or self-delusions and both the joy and the anguish of being fooled by others.
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Moons Of Jupiter
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Alice Munro
Jenny Steele
, February 15, 2007
Canadian writer Alice Munro is a master of precision and economy. Where other writers need pages and pages to capture a character, a situation, or a relationship, Munro needs only a sentence or two. The stories in this collection are really mini-novels because, with both subtle and bold language, she is able to deliver so much information with so few words. An amazingly talented writer, one I hope more Americans would discover.
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Word Desire
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Rikki Ducornet
Jenny Steele
, February 05, 2007
Ducornet writes of beauty and brutality with boldness and delicacy. She is a precise surgeon of the English language. The stories in this collection are provocative and witty, exotic/erotic, wild and stunning. A book to return to again and again. Ducornet is simply marvelous and this book is not to be missed.
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The Conversations at Curlow Creek
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David Malouf
Jenny Steele
, February 04, 2007
One of the finest novels I've ever read. Malouf is Australia's version of Cormac McCarthy. Both writers thrust their characters into situations of utter despair and though their styles are not the same, their use of language is dazzling, gems precisely faceted. If you're a fan of McCarthy, try Malouf, try this novel with its breathtaking, sweeping story.
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Poe & Fanny
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John May
Jenny Steele
, January 21, 2007
Delve into the New York of the 1840's! Manhattan becomes a character in itself as we read of the love affair between Edgar Allan Poe and the poet Fanny Osgood, a cautious yet reckless affair. A very readable story and if you're a fan of Poe, you'll enjoy the portrait of this man who wrote those wonderfully creepy tales!
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