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South: Antarctica, Endurance, and WWI
Sir Ernest Shackleton‘s South was my spontaneous “heavy reading” for this spring/summer. At times, my reaction was “What did I myself get into?” It is a long first-person narrative, stylistically tedious, and inherently repetitive–but absolutely worth the commitment. {Note: Be sure to look through photographer Frank Hurley’s book South with Endurance while you read South. … Read more >>
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Fathers and Sons
Arkady Kirsanov, recent graduate of the University of St Petersburg, comes home to visit his father Nikolai and uncle Pavel at the Kirsanov estate in the country. Nikolai is anxious to give his son a warm welcome, even if it means putting up with Arkady’s new friend, the arrogant Yevgeny Bazarov. Bazarov has abandoned social… Read more >>
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The Mystery of Cloomber
General Heatherstone is not an unfriendly person, really. He’s just very, very nervous. So nervous, in fact, that he has converted his new home, Cloomber Hall, into a fortress and keeps his family as veritable prisoners behind its walls. His neighbor John Fothergill West has taken an interest in the Heatherstones, and John soon finds… Read more >>
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The Trial
A good book, a bad book, a “love it or hate it” book. It takes some willpower for me to review Franz Kafka‘s The Trial as objectively as possible, but I must give it a mixed-feelings rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars. I believe I began reading this book last fall, before putting it… Read more >>
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