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The Real Enemy is the Dirt

My Russian Grandmother and Her American Vacuum Cleaner: a family memoir by Meir Shalev

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This book is fundamentally the story of  immigration and coming of age during the pioneer period of the 20s and 30s, and in young State of Israel.  It is lighthearted and laugh out loud funny .  I immediately felt like a part of the family. Having lived in Israel, the constant battle with keeping dirt out of the house brought back memories and made me laugh. Shalev takes you though the history of the early Jewish pioneers to Israel in a unique way – through […]

Patience for the English Patient

The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje

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This is definitely not an easy read.  It is slow, and methodical, much like each of the characters. Their stories are revealed through a series of flashbacks, as well as in their current situation.  For me it revealed itself as a mystery, for in the end nothing was as it seemed in the beginning. It is the story of four troubled people who all find themselves, through different circumstances, living together in a bombed out Italian villa at the end of WWII.  They are all […]

Prejudice Against Pride

Pride by Ibi Zoboi

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I wanted to love this book.  I am a huge Jane Austen fan and am always happy to read fan lit.  So I was very excited about the prospect of this book, especially with all of the great reviews that I read.  But I hated it. I think the thing that bugged me the most was the author’s treatment of Elizabeth (Zuri) and Darcy (Darius).  Nothing about these characters reflected their original counterparts.  Elizabeth Bennet is prideful, but she is also polite and kind.  From […]

Robert Langdon in Spain

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I am a sucker for a good NY Times Bestseller by Dan Brown, particularly if the book involves Professor Robert Langdon.  In “Origin,” the professor of symbology again finds himself in the center of a mess not of his own doing with twists and turns on every page.  What made this book an especially fun read for me is that much of it takes place in Barcelona, the city I had just visited before I picked up the book.  It was really fun to re-visit […]

Fantastical Pride and Prejudice

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I have had this book on my TBR list for quite a while now.  I don’t remember what drew me to buying it; I imagine that it was because it was fan fiction of one of my favorite Jane Austen novels, Pride and Prejudice.  I don’t think I read the review though, or even the summary, because as much as I love JA, and am always up for giving some fan fiction a chance, a fantasy re-telling of the story would have been one step […]



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