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Sunday, July 7, 2013

The Giver (Lois Lowry)

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The Giver is a Newbery medal-winning juvenile fiction featuring Jonas, a preteen boy of unusual equanimity who lives with his family in ...
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Saturday, June 8, 2013

Beginnings: The First Love, the First Hate, the First Dream...Reflections on the Bible's Intriguing Firsts (Meir Shalev)

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Meir Shalev had already enchanted me with his storytelling genius, his easy charm, and his unobtrusive humor through his memoir, My Russi...
Sunday, April 7, 2013

We Need to Talk About Kevin (Lionel Shriver)

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When I heard an interview with Lionel Shriver, the author of We Need to Talk About Kevin , on NPR, I was fascinated not only by the disc...
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Thursday, February 21, 2013

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

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After reading Walter Isaacson’s biography of Benjamin Franklin , I fell in love (with Franklin, not Isaacson) and needed more from Ben’s ...
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Friday, January 18, 2013

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Stieg Larsson)

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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo isn’t the type of book I’d normally choose for myself. I’m generally indifferent toward crime novels, and...
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Saturday, December 15, 2012

What Remains: A Memoir of Fate, Friendship, and Love (Carole Radziwill)

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My sister the pop-culture nut, the one who recommended Jeannie out of the Bottle to me, loves the Kennedys, especially John Jr. and Car...
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Sunday, November 18, 2012

The Class (Erich Segal)

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The Class is a bittersweet and engaging, if not profound, coming-of-age story of five Harvard students, class of 1958: Danny is an in...