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Bookworm Musings
On Sunset
Kathryn Harrison has been on my "to read" list for years. Glad I picked up this slim volume (quick audiobook). Among her ancestors were Jewish merchants from Baghdad who became British citizens and then Americans. Some of her relatives peddled opium in pre-Communist...
A Tale of Love & Darkness
Amos Oz’s memoir starts in pre-independence Jerusalem and ebbs and flows back to Oz’s parents birth countries in Eastern Europe and Russia. Nu, what? Is is Oz’s grandfather’s standard greeting. He’s deeply skeptical of the socialist bent of Zionist, as he worries...
N. K. Jemisin’s Broken Earth Trilogy
N.K. Jemisin’s Broken Earth Trilogy The Fifth Season (August 2015) The Obelisk Gate (August 2016) The Stone Sky (August 2017) I probably read this trilogy over the course of six months as I waited for each (popular!) audiobook to become available from the library. I...