Notes on Books & Life
Whew, I’ve been slacking! Just on the posting though, not on the actual reading, which is an improvement! I finished Cartwheels in a Sari by Jayanti Tamm first. It’s a very well written, interesting memoir about growing up as part of a cult. When her parents break their guru’s rule about sex and her mother …
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I finished The Nanny Diaries by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus last night. It’s been on my shelf for years, and every time I cleaned out my books I would read the first few pages, think, “Yep, I still want to read it,” and put it back. But after reading the quick, witty Sleeping Naked is Green …
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As I was shelving books at work today, I came across David Eagleman’s new novel, Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives. The endorsement on the front is from Philip Pullman, of Golden Compass fame; on the back, Brian Greene, well known science writer, weighs in. The book is tiny, about the size of a postcard …
I’m not usually an audiobook fan. My attention tends to wander, and I end up having to backtrack and listen to the same thing over and over before I actually hear it. Sometimes the narrators are bland, and sometimes they’re a bit too overly dramatic. Just not my thing. At BEA, however, I picked up …
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Well, I ended up abandoning Thrity Umrigar’s memoir, First Darling of the Morning. I got to about 50 pages, which is where, if a book isn’t grabbing me, I’m allowed to put it down. Not only was I not grabbed, I was also vaguely annoyed. But hey, the coworker who lent it to me loved …
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