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reviewed Reeds in the Wind. May 11
Reeds in the Wind
Reeds in the Wind is a resounding success, for it is a literary work of art that is suffused with Sardinian folk culture, unwavering faith in Catholicism and vivid lore of the "dark beings who populate …
reviewed Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family. May 11
Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family
A classy, modernistic literary magnum opus that is truly representative of global literature, Thomas Mann's masterpiece about the bourgeois-which is a tornado of unceasing recherche prose and firmly …
reviewed The Americanization of Edward Bok: Th.... May 11
The Americanization of Edward Bok: The
In 1920, the former editor of the Ladies' Home Journal, Edward Bok, published his fascinating memoir, an exceptionally well-written book through which he candidly yet eloquently recounted the step-by-step …
reviewed Son of a Grifter: The Twisted Tale of.... May 11
Son of a Grifter: The Twisted Tale of Sante and
In a time where the human psyche is incessantly bombarded with graphic tales of rape, robbery, grafting and murder, a person would be led to believe that the age of violence and vicious people has climaxed …
reviewed House of Games. May 11
House of Games
As far as screenplays go, House of Games is a work of great cutting quality; written in Mamet's recognized concise style, House of Games permeates with a foreboding, volatile aura. When a too structured …
reviewed Scoundrel Time. May 11
Scoundrel Time
Desensitized for a long time to the stressful pain of the infamous McCarthy period, Scoundrel Time must have been a most cathartic memoir for Lillian Hellman to write; it is, of the autobiographical …
reviewed Pentimento (Back Bay Books). May 11
Pentimento (Back Bay Books)
Pentimento: A Book of Portraits is electrfying in its earnestness and candor, incisive in its tone, acerbic in its wit and picturesque in its mental imagery - a memoir (unlike An Unfinished Woman) that …
reviewed An Unfinished Woman: A Memoir (Back B.... May 11
An Unfinished Woman: A Memoir (Back Bay Books)
A life where no living is done is a life not worth living. Like O'Neil, Shaw, Williams and Isben, Lillian Hellman (1905-1984, scriptwriter, playwrite, social and political activist and critic) wrote …
reviewed Oleanna: A Play. May 11
Oleanna: A Play
It is an unfortunate truth: political correctness-sometimes but not always-overrides education. For a while, it has been extremely detrimental-inside as well as outside of the academic community-a fact …
reviewed Passionate Minds: Women Rewriting the.... May 11
Passionate Minds: Women Rewriting the World
Exhaustively researched and knowledgeably sifted, Passionate Minds: Women Rewriting the World is an incisively engaging work that exhilarates the mind while also extending beyound the mere bland categorization …
reviewed Of Human Bondage (Modern Library Clas.... May 11
Of Human Bondage (Modern Library Classics)
Of Human Bondage is a literary beacon of light for the wayward drifter who is in the grip of an emotional force that is larger than him or herself. It is a piece of literature that can resonate quite …
reviewed Sounder. May 11
Sounder
Loving devotion, decency and courage can come from an assortment of places-our mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters and friends-but one would not immediately suspect that those qualities would or could …
reviewed Introduction to the Devout Life. May 11
Introduction to the Devout Life
Saint Francis de Sales-patron saint of authors and writers and eminent Doctor of the Catholic Church-is quite deserving of his posthumous honors and titles, for with Introduction to the Devout Life (among …
reviewed The Piano Teacher. May 10
The Piano Teacher
Upon Elfriede Jelinek's selection for the Nobel Prize for Literature, with the novel-The Piano Teacher-being specifically cited, the Italian newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano, courageously criticized …
reviewed The Scapegoat. May 10
The Scapegoat
There are almost too many defensible ways to read and interpret English writer Daphne du Maurier's 1957 novel THE SCAPEGOAT.      -- First, the story is distinctly weird, eerie. …
reviewed The Famished Road. May 10
The Famished Road
War, strife, misery, corruption, poverty, emotional and physical brutality, hypocracy, intimidation. It is a short list, but they are indeed the fundamentally potent ingredients that could make anyone …
reviewed Blessed Gianna Beretta Molla: A Woman.... May 10
Blessed Gianna Beretta Molla: A Woman's Life,
All across global society, there are many controversial issues that predominate the social and political spectrum, none more polemical than the matter of abortion. Those who are Pro-Life versus those …
reviewed Love Letters to My Husband (Saints an.... May 10
Love Letters to My Husband (Saints and Holy
The love letters of St. Gianna Beretta Molla and her husband, Pietro, are very engaging in their offering of mini geographic profiles of their environment--Ponte Nuovo and Courmayeur--as well the workings …
reviewed Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati: An Ord.... May 10
Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati: An Ordinary
Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati's life-though brief-was truely a model example of the heroic, an unyielding quest to fully and earnestly live out the Gospel. At times, it's an indefinable journey …
reviewed Matt Talbot and His Times. May 10
Matt Talbot and His Times
Mary Purcell's touching and well written biography of Venerable Matt Talbot, the Dublin blue-collar workman, whose slavery to drink and unquenchable and relentless addiction robbed a large part of …
reviewed A Thousand Acres: A Novel. May 10
A Thousand Acres: A Novel
One would normally not equate a Shakespearean drama with rural desolate vastness and an Iowan farm family, but it is an engaging and intelligent literary effort that author Jane Smiley, somehow, effortlessly …
reviewed The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of.... May 10
The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness
When is a religious vocation a gift from God versus when is it self created? In Karen Armstrong's The Spiral Staircase: My Climb out of the Darkness, she presents just such a scenario, giving a compelling …
reviewed Light on the mountain; the story of L.... May 10
Light on the mountain; the story of La Salette
Winner of the Marian Library Medal in 1953, John S. Kennedy's book, Light on the Mountain: The Story of La Salette, is one of the most historically definitive books available regarding the Marian …
reviewed The Stone Diaries. May 10
The Stone Diaries
Simple acceptance of the "norm" is sometimes the bull-eye's mark to our own untimely demise, if not physically, than definitely psychologically. And such is the outright example of Daisy …
reviewed On Death and Dying. May 10
On Death and Dying
For most of us, the area of thanatology is something quite new, despite the fact that death is such an intimate "companion" that can come at any moment of our lives, whether by degrees or instantaneously, …
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