Category: Reading Journal

Satantango by Laszlo Krasznahorkai, translated from Hungarian by George Szirtes. Last year, the author won the Nobel Prize for literature. I thought I had…

Endling by Maria Reva was this month’s selection for the International Book Club at a local bookstore. It is a darkly comic, absurdist novel…

Theo of Golden by Allen Levi is a novel that a friend recommended to me. It’s too sweet for my taste. An old man…

Dare the Sea by Ali Hosseini is a collection of stories by a writer who will lead a discussion soon about another book by…

The Ninth: Beethoven and the World in 1824 by Harvey Sachs is an account of Beethoven’s writing of his 9th Symphony, although it’s far…

The Sirens’ Call: How Attention Became the World’s Most Endangered Resource by Chris Hayes was my book club’s pick for October. Hayes writes well,…

All in her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught us about Women’s Bodies and Why it Matters Today by Elizabeth Comen, M.D….