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Year Of Wonders

meganmichelle wrote 6 days ago: I recently finished rereading Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague by Geraldine Brooks.  This is … more »

Tags: Books, Historical Fiction, Plague, Year of Wonders

Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks

bagpussjanet wrote 2 weeks ago: Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks The ‘Blurb’ Spring 1666: when the Great Plague reaches the q … more »

Tags: Reviews, Historical, Plague, Year of Wonders

Word of the day

boomergrl49 wrote 2 weeks ago: Relaxed Being free of or relieved from tension or anxiety: in a relaxed mood Definition from dictio … more »

Tags: Books, Reading, Love that word, ThE WorDs, Movies, Dictionary.com, Word Of The Day, My Neighbor Totoro, People of the Book

so, read any good books lately?5 comments

Mallory wrote 4 weeks ago: Most people who know me are aware of the fact that buried under my fun, outgoing, beautiful, genera … more »

Tags: The Arts, A thousand splendid suns, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Christian the lion, firefly lane, infidel, Jodi Picoult, Khaled Hosseini, kristin hannah

Review: Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks16 comments

lisamm wrote 2 months ago: Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks is the fictional account of an 18 year old widow with two young … more »

Tags: Book Clubs, Book Reviews, Books, Historical Fiction, Life, Reading, Reading Groups, book groups, Book Club

People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks

admin wrote 3 months ago: Rating: 6 out of 10 Summary: In 1996, Hanna Heath, an Australian rare-book expert, is offered the jo … more »

Tags: 6, Historical Fiction, Review, World Fiction, Anti-Semitism, Bosnia, Haggadah, Jewish, Judaism

A new book

ta2ati2d wrote 3 months ago: So “Water for Elephants” by Sara Gruen, was just as I had expected.  That is to say, it … more »

Tags: Authors, Books, Australia, book conservationist, boycotting circuses, CSI, New Read, People of the Book

What Are We Reading at the Library?

bookgoddess wrote 4 months ago: At our weekly meeting today, I asked the Library staff for the titles of any great books they … more »

Tags: Authors, Books, Fiction, librarians, Mysteries, Public libraries, readers, Reading, West Palm Beach Public Library

Jew Wishes On: People of the Book, by Geraldine Brooks

jewwishes wrote 4 months ago: People of the Book by Pulitzer Prize author Geraldine Brooks is an incredible novel. Although it is … more »

Tags: Books, General, Judaism, Holocaust, Anit-Semitism, poetry/prose, Religion, Jew, Jewish

Book Review - People of the Book, Geraldine Brooks7 comments

archiearchive FCD wrote 4 months ago: Having won a Pulitzer Prize with “March”, her re-telling of “Little Women”, … more »

Tags: Literature, Book Burnings, Book Review, Bosnia, librarians, People of the Book, Pulitzer Prize, Sarajevo

Winter Preview in USA Today

Mark Athitakis wrote 6 months ago: Complete with an odd if strangely compelling snowman widget, USA Today previews some of the bigger b … more »

Tags: Dan Brown, Sue Miller, Russell Banks, richard price

of books and outlooks↓

kieranwar wrote 8 months ago: I want to walk with you under a cloudy yellow sky. I have been mashing over a really good book now. … more »

Tags: AIOD'07., Life, Reading, Economics, IMF, World Economic Outlook 2007, book2, March, Rihanna

March

sadiejean wrote 9 months ago: —4— Geraldine Brooks’ March tells the story of Mr. March, the mostly absent fath … more »

Tags: Book Reviews, General Fiction, March

March - Geraldine Brooks

ahlan wrote 1 year ago: Finished 6.19.2007 How did I end up being tricked into reading a book about Little Women and the Civ … more »

Tags: america, Novel

Day 118: Some Thoughts on Recent Novels4 comments

cerebraljetsam wrote 1 year ago:   Ok, I have a weak wireless signal, so I will make use of it before the thunderstorm gets closer a … more »

Tags: PhD, Art, Postmodernism, cultural studies, dissertation, William Gibson, Pattern Recognition, Literature, Culture

#26 ~ Innocent Traitor1 comment

Literate Housewife wrote 1 year ago: With this book I have reached the summit! Innocent Traitor by Alison Weir As I have made my way th … more »

Tags: Amazing Narrator, Books, Henry VIII, Historical Fiction, Reading, Religion, 9 Days Queen, Alison Weir, bloody mary

#25 ~ March

Literate Housewife wrote 1 year ago: March by Geraldine Brooks I have loved Little Women for as long as the first time I picked the book … more »

Tags: Books, Reading, Religion, Historical Fiction, March, little women, Louisa May Alcott, Captain March, abolitionist

Day 89: _March_ by Geraldine Brooks

cerebraljetsam wrote 1 year ago: I just read Geraldine Brooks’ latest novel March. It is a re-telling of Louisa May Alcott … more »

Tags: PhD, cultural studies, Nostalgia, historicity, dissertation, Literature, Culture, critical theory, Life

Year of Wonders1 comment

sadiejean wrote 1 year ago: —4—  First off, I love diseases and plagues.  Well, at least reading and learning a … more »

Tags: Book Reviews, General Fiction, Year of Wonders


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