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Wednesday, June 19, 2024

Enlightenment                                             

by Sarah Perry

Mariner Books/HarperCollins Publishers


   Thomas Hart and Grace Macaulay are friends whose lives are upended by unattainable love and an astronomer from a century past who knows their torment too well. Several comets have very important roles in this wonderful story of stars, love, religion, anger and reconciliation. And the vital importance of museums and libraries.


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Friday, June 14, 2024

 Translation State

by Ann Leckie

Orbit / Hachette Book Group


You don't need to be a Science Fiction fan to enjoy this book. There is a stronger sense of family, in all its permutations, and belonging, than space. But there is also an intergalactic feud and a wonderful penultimate scene on a constantly twisting space ship that will fulfill SF lovers' needs.


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Tuesday, June 4, 2024

 Trust

by Hernan Diaz

Riverhead Books/PRH


    This is an amazing book, very much deserving of all the prizes it received. It is a historical novel composed of several different sections which put forth slightly different stories. In each story there is at least one character you come to care very much for, and many different meanings of the word - trust. 

    There is much here about the financial world, expertly delineated for even those of us who aren't experts in Wall Street, futures, the crash of '29 or investing in general. The characters are the essence, even when they are duplicitous or not even purposely vague.

  This is well worth your time.


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Saturday, June 1, 2024

 Brotherless Night

by V.V. Ganeshananthan

Penguin Random House


    This is a difficult, wrenching book about Sri Lanka and the horrible war that went on for decades.  In 2009, the Sri Lanka government declared victory over the Tamil fighters, but the country is still not peaceful.

    We follow Sashi and her family from 1981 through the worst years of the war that came to involve the Sri Lankan government, the Tamil resistance fighters and the Indian "peacekeeping" forces. It is a story of the horrors of war but also of familial love and hope. It is a moving and important book.


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