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28.10.2024

Review of “What Does It Feel Like? A Novel” by Sophie Kinsella | Rhapsody in Books Weblog

Although part of the title of this book is “A Novel”, as the author explains in an Afternote, it is mostly autobiographical, with some names and dates changed, but otherwise a reflection of the author’s recent experience. Sophie Kinsella was diagnosed with a glioblastoma brain tumor in 2022, and subsequently underwent surgery, chemotherapy, radiotherapy, and…

Rhapsody in Books Weblog

05.11.2024

Review of “James” by Percival Everett | Rhapsody in Books Weblog

This Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist is a subversive retelling of Mark Twain’s classic book The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from the perspective of the Black slave Jim rather than of the young white boy Huck. Like this new version, the original began in Missouri just before the outbreak of the Civil War.…

Rhapsody in Books Weblog

12.11.2024

Kid Lit Review of “The People’s Painter: How Ben Shahn Fought for Justice with Art” by Cynthia Levinson | Rhapsody in Books Weblog

Ben Shahn, born in Lithuania, emigrated to America with his family when he was eight years old. He had began to draw from the time he was a young boy. But he didn’t want to make just “pretty” pictures; rather, he had important stories he wanted to tell through art. The author writes: “Justice had…

Rhapsody in Books Weblog

19.11.2024

Review of “An Insignificant Case: A Novel” by Phillip Margolin | Rhapsody in Books Weblog

This stand-alone crime novel features Charlie Webb, supposedly a “third-rate” lawyer in Portland, Oregon who gets by handling minor legal matters for friends along with some court-appointed cases, one of which he gets as the story opens. He was assigned to defend Lawrence Weiss, a.k.a. Guido Sabatini, who admitted to stealing back a painting he…

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