Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “Troubles” by J.G. Farrell
“Troubles” is JG Farrell’s long exploration, from the point of view of an English visitor, of Ireland in the…
May 11, 2012-
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Brooklyn Bugle Book Club, “The Man Who Changed the Way We Eat: Craig Claiborne and the American Food Renaissance” by Thomas McNamee
Craig Claiborne, who was born in 1920, took until he was nearly 40 to find himself. Born in Mississippi,…
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Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “Sacre Bleu” by Christopher Moore
In Paris, in the second half of the 19th century, the painters Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Henri Seurat,…
April 27, 2012 -
Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “Next to Love” by Ellen Feldman
The title of Ellen Feldman’s novel is ascribed to Eric Partridge, the British lexicographer, who, as a young recruit,…
April 23, 2012 -
Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel” by Deborah Moggach
Until I came across a copy in the local branch of the Brooklyn Public Library, I had no idea…
April 20, 2012 -
Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “Sea of Poppies” by Amitav Ghosh
‘Sea of Poppies’ is the first book in Amitav Ghosh’s ‘Ibis Trilogy.’ In this historical novel, set in 1838,…
April 16, 2012 -
Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “Alice in Bed” by Cathleen Schine
“Alice in Bed” is one of Cathleen Schine’s early novels, having been published originally in 1983, and reissued in…
April 13, 2012 -
Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “Conundrum” by Jan Morris
A few weeks ago I reviewed Jan Morris’s novel “Hav.” Reading that book and her book about Sydney, Australia,…
April 9, 2012 -
Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “How It All Began” by Penelope Lively
A mugger pushes 70-something Charlotte, who teaches English to immigrants, over on the sidewalk, breaking her hip and setting…
April 6, 2012 -
Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “The Perfect Nazi: Uncovering My Grandfather’s Secret Past” by Martin Davidson
Many of the books about the Holocaust that have recently found their way to this household have described what…
March 23, 2012