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The Dream Hotel: A Novel
by Laila Lalami
Caught by agreeing to "terms of service" (1/18/2025)
I've been thinking about corporate surveillance. I've also been worried about wildfires in Los Angeles. It's not because I'm watching the news. Oh no, it's because I've been reading this book. Remember what Benjamin Franklin said about liberty and security and deservingmore
The Montevideo Brief: A Thomas Grey Novel
by J. H. Gelernter
Pirates! Snakes! The Napoleonic Wars! Oh My! (4/6/2023)
Swashbuckling is not really my thing, and I don't know the difference between a sloop and a frigate, a weather deck, quarter deck or poop deck, but Captain Thomas Grey's adventures on the high seas had me rather captivated, after I got over the author's penchant the use ofmore
Ariadne
by Jennifer Saint
The Heroes Were All Women (3/14/2021)
If you grew up as I did, long after it was considered necessary to learn Greek and Latin to be well educated, you might think, as I did, that you missed out on a huge bit of Western literary background, and feel ill equipped to follow an obscure aside regarding Greeks andmore
Of Women and Salt
by Gabriela Garcia
Cuba, Miami, Mexico, Oh My (1/9/2021)
There are women and there is salt in this story, or should I say stories. The structure reminds me of a shawl I am knitting. It’s made of leftover yarn, so there are strong stripes of bright colors against rows of bland timeless yarn which are woven in by chance andmore
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