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The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron. The Director by Daniel Kehlmann is a challenging but intriguing work of fiction. Its surreal and expressionistic style focuses on its characters’ dreamlike experiences and emotional journeys. These stylistic elements mix with realism as the narrative develops, prompting this reader to appreciate…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Unless some new major scandal leads the Democratic establishment to replace Graham Platner on the ballot in the next 30 days, the choice for U. S. Senate from Maine is between Democrat Graham Platner,44, and Republican Susan Collins, 77. Yet…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. The Things We Never Say by Elizabeth Strout is the ninth book I have read by Strout. She raises many classic Strout themes: the lives of seemingly ordinary people, how people deal with each other and with their own feelings,…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family’s Search for Truth by Patrick Radden Keefe, published in April, displays once again the author’s investigative skills and journalistic talents manifest in his books Say Nothing (about “the troubles”…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. The Elements by prolific Irish writer John Boyne is an intense novel that takes you into the darkest places of human behavior and miraculously brings you into the light with a slender promise of hope. Broadly speaking, it is about…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. The year was 1976. It was nearing deadline time at the The Boston Phoenix. Editor Bill Miller, formerly of the Boston Globe, emerged into the newsroom from his small office. A hush fell as reporters turned to face…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. The Art Spy: The Extraordinary Untold Tale of WWII Resistance Hero Rose Valland by Michelle Young is a richly researched account of an apparently nondescript art historian who rose from a low-level volunteer job just prior to the Second…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’ own blog. The Order of the Day by award-winning French novelist and film maker Eric Vuillard is a well-researched and creatively presented story of the Anschluss, Hitler’s move to take over Austria and incorporate it into Germany. It is a brief cautionary…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. The Names by Florence Knapp offers a rich exploration of identity beginning with our names – how much of our name defines how we see ourselves, how our name influences others’ perceptions of who we are – and expanding her…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. The Art Thief: a True Story of Love, Crime and a Dangerous Obsession by Michael Finkel, published in 2023, is a well researched and documented account of one of the most unusual art thieves of all time. For…
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