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The Books: “Going After Cacciato” (Tim O’Brien)
Daily Book Excerpt: Adult fiction: Going After Cacciato, by Tim O’Brien. Jean was the one who turned me on to Tim O’Brien – or, should I say, she demanded in no uncertain terms that I read Going After Cacciato and … Continue reading
Books: History List
Taking my cue from Critical Mass, here is my compilation of favorite history, biography, and historical fiction. Criteria for books chosen is thus: The books chosen must be well written, and one does not need to have a lot of … Continue reading
Posted in Books, James Joyce
Tagged A. Scott Berg, A.S. Byatt, Biography, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, Charles Lindbergh, David McCullough, England, France, Germany, Going After Cacciato, Group Theatre, Hitler, Ireland, Jeanette Winterson, John Adams, nonfiction, Possession, Rebecca West, Richard Ellmann, Ryszard Kapuściński, Tennessee Williams, The Passion, The Soccer War, Tim O'Brien, Vietnam, William Shirer, Yugoslavia
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Recommended Reading: Fiction
And now for the Fiction recommendations. (See the Non-Fiction ones below) Choosing books out of all the books I love is rather torturous for me. So this is an impulsive, scanning-the-bookshelves-with-mine-eyes and writing titles down spur-of-the-moment kind of list. Here … Continue reading
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Tagged A.S. Byatt, Atonement, Charlotte Bronte, Crime and Punishment, England, fiction, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Going After Cacciato, Harriet the Spy, Herman Melville, Ian McEwan, Ireland, J.D. Salinger, Jane Eyre, Louise Fitzhugh, Michael Chabon, Moby Dick, Possession, Russia, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, The Catcher In the Rye, The Dead, The Things They Carried, Tim O'Brien, Vietnam
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