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A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and LoveInspired by her long fascination with Galileo, and by the remarkable surviving letters …
In 1949, four Chinese women--drawn together by the shadow of their past--begin meeting in San Francisco to play mah jong, …
Grazia dei Rossi, private secretary to the world-renowned Isabella d'Este, is the daughter of an eminent Jewish banker, the wife …
The dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest and of one man's forty-year obsession to find a solution to …
Written with obscure rules and constraints (see this summary on Wikipedia), this book is an attempt to mechanize storytelling. I admire the effort but found the result to be unreadable.
Steinbeck considered East of Eden to be his masterpiece. In his journal, Journal of a Novel (often read as a …
Chinese-American Olivia Laguni's life is changed by her nemesis and half-sister , Kwan Li, whose haunting predictions and implementation of …
Steinbeck considered East of Eden to be his masterpiece. In his journal, Journal of a Novel (often read as a …
Dava Sobel: Galileo's daughter (2000, Penguin (Non-Classics))
A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and LoveInspired by her long fascination with Galileo, and by the remarkable surviving letters …
Two sisters leave Shanghai to find new lives in 1930s Los Angeles in this fresh, …
Very enjoyable story. I learned some things about Shanghai in the 1930's, and the Chinese immigrant community in Los Angeles. Not as emotionally engaging as Snow Flower and the Secret Fan.
Very enjoyable story. I learned some things about Shanghai in the 1930's, and the Chinese immigrant community in Los Angeles. Not as emotionally engaging as Snow Flower and the Secret Fan.
An old man lies dying. As time collapses into memory, he travels deep into his …
I enthusiastically recommend this book!
The narration alternates between George and his father, Howard. The last few days of George's life are portrayed as a countdown of hours, which would have been much more forceful had I been reading a physical book instead of a Kindle. Just imagine: as the hours of George's life dwindle, so do the pages of the book…
It was so nice to read good writing. The point of view switches seamlessly between first and third person, past and present tense. Thankfully, a section overfull of alliteration did not go on too long ("let the low light of the fire lap at it late at night" and "brightness between a band").
The book was such a transporting experience that when I finished reading it, I needed to just sit for a few minutes and finish absorbing it all.
I enthusiastically recommend this book!
The narration alternates between George and his father, Howard. The last few days of George's life are portrayed as a countdown of hours, which would have been much more forceful had I been reading a physical book instead of a Kindle. Just imagine: as the hours of George's life dwindle, so do the pages of the book…
It was so nice to read good writing. The point of view switches seamlessly between first and third person, past and present tense. Thankfully, a section overfull of alliteration did not go on too long ("let the low light of the fire lap at it late at night" and "brightness between a band").
The book was such a transporting experience that when I finished reading it, I needed to just sit for a few minutes and finish absorbing it all.
I enthusiastically recommend this book!
The narration alternates between George and his father, Howard. The last few days of George's life are portrayed as a countdown of hours, which would have been much more forceful had I been reading a physical book instead of a Kindle. Just imagine: as the hours of George's life dwindle, so do the pages of the book…
It was so nice to read good writing. The point of view switches seamlessly between first and third person, past and present tense. Thankfully, a section overfull of alliteration did not go on too long ("let the low light of the fire lap at it late at night" and "brightness between a band").
The book was such a transporting experience that when I finished reading it, I needed to just sit for a few minutes and finish absorbing it all.
I enthusiastically recommend this book!
The narration alternates between George and his father, Howard. The last few days of George's life are portrayed as a countdown of hours, which would have been much more forceful had I been reading a physical book instead of a Kindle. Just imagine: as the hours of George's life dwindle, so do the pages of the book…
It was so nice to read good writing. The point of view switches seamlessly between first and third person, past and present tense. Thankfully, a section overfull of alliteration did not go on too long ("let the low light of the fire lap at it late at night" and "brightness between a band").
The book was such a transporting experience that when I finished reading it, I needed to just sit for a few minutes and finish absorbing it all.
A nutrition-oriented analysis of industrial food production, a presentation of the baleful consequences and suggestions for undoing the damage.
