Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “Girl Reading” by Katie Ward
We forget, often, that artifacts survive us, but survive they do, and that is one of the points that…
March 19, 2012-
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Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration” by Isabel Wilkerson
From about 1915 through about 1970 more than six million former slaves and descendants of slaves left the Jim…
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Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “The Cat’s Table” by Michael Ondaatje
For much of the 20th century, long sea voyages were the only way to travel from one continent to…
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Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “The Art of Fielding” by Chad Harbach
Despite what I must admit is a rather dim memory of the New Yorker review suggesting that “The Art…
March 5, 2012 -
Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “Hav” by Jan Morris
The noted travel writer Jan Morris has published very few novels, but I found one of them at the…
March 2, 2012 -
Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “Four of a Kind” by Valerie Frankel
As Valerie Frankel’s new novel, set in and around a private school in Brooklyn Heights opens, Bess, mother of…
February 24, 2012 -
Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “The Brooklyn Heights Promenade” by Henrik Krogius
Brooklyn Heights residents are justly proud of our Promenade overlooking New York Harbor. Cantilevered over the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, it…
February 17, 2012 -
Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “The Discovery of Slowness” by Sten Nadolny
Constant connection and instant communication have embedded speed in our lives. Sten Nadolny’s wonderful novel, “The Discovery of Slowness,”…
February 10, 2012 -
Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank” by Nathan Englander
For many Jews, the world is and remains a fragile place. Israel is surrounded by enemies, many of whom…
February 7, 2012 -
Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “The Stranger’s Child” by Alan Hollinghurst
Every once in a while I read a book that is so good I cannot bear to put it…
February 3, 2012