Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “Arcadia” a Novel by Iain Pears
by Alexandra Bowie Iain Pears’ fascinating and compelling new novel “Arcadia” opens in a landscape, “bathed in sunshine, sweet-smelling…
February 12, 2016-
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Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “Peggy Guggenheim: The Shock of the Modern” by Francine Prose
Peggy Guggenheim was a niece of Solomon Guggenheim (whose art collection is housed in the eponymous museum) and a…
February 5, 2016 -
Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “All Who Go Do Not Return” by Shulem Deen
The Hasidic rabbis who decide what behavior is acceptable for their followers use the Hebrew acronym BYKL – in…
January 29, 2016 -
Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “Here’s Looking at Euclid” by Alex Bellos
We all learn to count, add, subtract, and do our multiplication tables in elementary school. From there we move…
January 22, 2016 -
Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “The Table of Less Valued Knights” by Marie Phillips
The Round Table was round for a reason: all its knights shared equal billing, and hence precedence (even though,…
January 15, 2016 -
Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “The Death of Cancer” by Vincent T. DeVita Jr, MD
by Alexandra Bowie Vincent DeVita opens his memoir “The Death of Cancer” with a story: in a chapter titled…
January 8, 2016 -
Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “A God in Ruins” a novel by Kate Atkinson
There are novels that readers describe as thrillers, novels whose plots are complex but clear, novels of manners, and…
December 18, 2015 -
Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “Purity” A Novel by Jonathan Franzen
Jonathan Franzen’s new novel, “Purity,” is a big book, 563 pages long. Mr. Franzen is mindful of the pressure…
December 11, 2015 -
Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “The Secret Chord” A Novel by Geraldine Brooks
Handel’s Coronation Anthems begin with the words “Zadok the Priest, and Nathan the Prophet, anointed Solomon King” and well…
December 4, 2015 -
Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “Tightrope” by Simon Mawer
Belief. Blackmail. Bribery. These are the three motivations for betrayal that one of the several spymasters in Simon Mawer’s…
November 13, 2015