The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot, Random House 2010 - It’s odd how the differences between one’s children manifest themselves. Each Christmas, for instance, I receive books from my DDD (dearest darling daughter) and my NOS (number one son). My DDD is attracted to fiction, especially fantasy, while my NOS is clearly …
Month: March 2022
PIRANESI BY SUSANNA CLARKE
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke – Bloomsbury publishing, 2020 - Piranesi is the second in my Dearest Darling Daughter’s (DDD) choices, and by far the oddest and most interesting of the Christmas gift books this year. CBS says it’s ‘Destined to become a work of classic fantasy’ and it was given glowing praise by sources as …
THE EMPEROR OF ALL MALADIES
The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee – Scribners, 2010 - For those who prefer non-fiction, this book is a winner. Described as a ‘biography of cancer’ it is, indeed, a history of the disease and a chronicle of those who have worked to cure the world of this scourge. References to the disease …
THE BEEKEEPER OF ALLEPO
The Beekeeper of Aleppo by Christy Lefteri, Ballantine Books, 2020 - Ms. Lefteri is currently a lecturer in creative writing at Brunel University in the UK. Her parents fled Cyprus during the 1974 Turkish invasion of the island and, during a period in 2016, she became a volunteer worker at a UNICEF-supported refugee center in …
THE U-CRANE – AN ENDLESS BLEAK WINTER AHEAD
Seems as if the longer Vlad (the impaler) Pootine rules Rooskie, the more he acts like his hero, good ol’ Joe S. And hot dog, hasn’t Vlad been some busy this past week? Somehow those two hundred thousand ballet dancers that he’d brought to the border of Russkie have high stepped their way into the …
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