Tuesday, September 18, 2012

The Name of the Rose


The translator starts Umberto Eco’s novel with a found manuscript that is so fascinating that the man who found it and who is traveling with his soon to be romantic partner has to make a translation of the 14th century manuscript.

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Sunday, September 2, 2012

Tallgrass


Sandra Dallas loves almost everything that farm life has to offer, except drudgery, rapid physical deterioration and impoverishment. Both those negative aspects and the positive ones of peacefulness, closeness and emotional satisfaction make up the background for this book.

The internment of Japanese-Americans was both a necessity and a disgrace. Dallas revives both aspects in her fictitious internment camp named “Tallgrass.”

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