Posted Tue, 08/10/2010 - 4:36pm by fred
Date Fred Read:
August 2010
Marcus J. Borg, professor emeritus of Oregon State University who held the Hundere Chair in Religion and Culture, wrote 4 NYT bestsellers: Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time, The Heart of Christianity, The Last Week, and Jesus. I read these 4 and 7 (so far) other books by him. (For his books I’ve read, click on his name.) Read more
Posted Sat, 07/10/2010 - 1:53pm by fred
Date Fred Read:
July 2010
Publisher:
Algonquin Books
Shannon Ravenel, series editor of The Best American Short Stories for 13 years, has edited New Stories from the South since its introduction in 1987. I was given this book, with of its “new” Faulkner short story, because the giver knew I had read all Faulkner’s novels and short stories. Read more
Posted Fri, 07/09/2010 - 12:03pm by fred
Date Fred Read:
July 2010
Publisher:
Grove Press; Reprint edition
As of 2008 James Howard Kunstler is the author of nine novels and three nonfiction books, The Geography of Nowhere, Home from Nowhere, and The Long Emergency. This novel is far from a typical post-apocalyptic novel. It was a highly rated book by my wife’s Book Club last year. Read more
Posted Sat, 01/09/2010 - 4:42pm by fred
Date Fred Read:
January 2010
Elizabeth Strout is a faculty member at Queen’s University, Charlotte, NC, with short stories published in many magazines. She was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award and the English Orange Prize. Her books Abide with Me and Amy and Isabelle won prizes. And Olive Kitteridge won the Pulitzer Prize. Read more
Posted Mon, 07/06/2009 - 4:03pm by fred
Date Fred Read:
July 2009
Publisher:
Penguin (Non-Classics)
Geraldine Brooks, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author of March (book 258) and Years of Wonders, is a novelist and a non-fiction writer who had been a correspondent for the Wall Street Journal. This book was a NYT Bestseller. Read more
Posted Sat, 05/16/2009 - 4:25pm by fred
Publisher:
Random House Trade Paperbacks
Ethan Canin, a former physician, was on the faculty of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop when he wrote the four long stories in this national bestseller in 1994. The last story, The Palace Thief, became the movie The Emperor’s Club, starring Kevin Kline. Read more
Posted Thu, 04/30/2009 - 4:56pm by fred
Date Fred Read:
April 2009
David Guterson won the 1995 PEN/Faulkner Award and the Pacific Northwest Bookseller Association Award for his novel “Snow Falling on Cedars.” Book 301 is a collection of ten short stories. Read more
Posted Fri, 04/10/2009 - 3:56pm by fred
Date Fred Read:
April 2009
Jhumpa Lahiri was born in London, grew up in Rhode Island and lives in New York City. In this collection of short stories her characters suffer from the dislocation and disruption caused by India's tumultuous political history. This book of short stories won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 2000. Read more
Posted Sat, 04/04/2009 - 12:04pm by fred
Date Fred Read:
March 2009
Kim Stanley Robinson, the author of this award-winning trilogy, writes SF books that are scientific and sociological. In Blue Mars (in the 21st century) colonists almost succeed in “terraforming” Mars. They fight for independence from Earth and attempt to avert a civil war. (For his books I’ve read, click on his name.) Read more
Posted Sat, 04/04/2009 - 11:58am by fred
Date Fred Read:
March 2009
Kim Stanley Robinson is the author of this Nebula & Hugo Award-winning trilogy. Green Mars won the Hugo for best SF novel for 1994. It continues the story of humans settling the planet by "terraforming" it, with development of an underground and the problems of forming a new society. (For his books I’ve read, click on his name.) Read more
