Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “A Pleasure and A Calling” A Novel by Phil Hogan
William Heming, the first person narrator of Phil Hogan’s engrossing novel “A Pleasure and A Calling,” likes to observe…
March 27, 2015-
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Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “The Exiles Return” by Elisabeth de Waal
Readers may be familiar with “The Hare with Amber Eyes,” Edmund de Waal’s memoir of his family’s lives, and…
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Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: When the World Was Young, by Elizabeth Gaffney
When I was in Mrs. Blalock’s 12th grade English class at Robinson High School in Tampa, I was required to give a book report every six weeks. Mrs. Blalock said students must begin each report by saying why they had read the book. With a tip of the hat to my still loved though long deceased teacher, I’ll begin this with a disclosure: I read this novel in part because the author is the daughter of a friend, neighbor, and fellow Grace Church parishioner.
March 14, 2015
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Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “The Infatuations” A Novel by Javier Marías
“Fiction has the ability to show us what we don’t know and what doesn’t happen,” says Javier Diaz-Varela, one…
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Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “Mermaids in Paradise” A Novel by Lydia Millet
The examined life is not worth living might be the credo of the self-absorbed Deborah, narrator of Lydia Millet’s…
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Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “The Headmaster’s Wife” A Novel by Thomas Christopher Greene
Arthur Winthrop, the headmaster of Thomas Greene’s title, is in his fifties; he’s settled, comfortable, the head of the…
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Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “The Heathen School: A Story of Hope and Betrayal in the Age of the Early Republic” by John Demos
Cornwall, Connecticut was briefly the site, in the early 19th century, of The Heathen School, established to educate the…
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Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “The Light Between Oceans” a novel by M. L. Stedman
Tom Sherbourne, the multi-layered protagonist of M.L. Stedman’s shimmering novel, is an Australian veteran of the Great War who…
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Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “Augustus” by John Williams
Gaius Octavius Caesar Augustus, heir of Julius and the first Roman emperor, is the fascinating center of John Williams’…
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Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “Being Mortal” by Atul Gawande
We are mortal: we’re born and, ultimately, we die. We resist the notion, we defy it, and eventually we…
January 23, 2015