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Sure you can, GUG!!!
I like Roddy Doyle's comment, and will be seeking out his f****** brilliant book Peace by Richard Bausch (which
is actually on my TBR pile) ... per book on LT.
The other 13 are:
Fiction
Storyteller : Being the Wanderings of Gwernin Kyuarwyd G. R. Grove (39)
Peace Richard Bausch (86)
Possessed by Shadows Donigan Merritt (2 - one's on a wishlist)
The Common Bond Donigan Merritt (22) - an Early Reviewer
Memoir-ish
The K ... Thanks Aruba. Richard Bausch's Peace is one I upped the rating on because it just stuck around with me. Gail Jone's Sorry is one I've though about upping, actually that one is maybe worth a re-read (rare for me.) ... Merritt - this year's favorite
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
4 1/2 star from this year:
Peace by Richard Bausch
De Niro's Game by Rawi Hage
Five-star books from last year:
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton
Out Ste ... ... Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz *****
3. The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan ****1/2
4. Peace by Richard Bausch ****1/2
5. De Niro's Game by Rawi Hage ****1/2
Others I can't resist mentioning:
Travelling With Djinns by Jamal MahJoub, Europe Between ... ... book. Maybe I will.
I had your reviews in mind, I mean just the general tone of them, while reading Richard Bausch's Peace over the past weekend. ... the comments on my log here: http://www.librarything.com/topic/54129#1136824 , or see my review.
Last night I finished Peace by Richard Bausch - than spent the rest of the night awake, thinking about it. That's not wholly a compliment. It's a brief sketch of some US soldiers in Italy during ... ... I tend to like some outre sub-genres and when I saw Japanese feminist noir I couldn't resist. It did not disappoint.
3. Peace, Richard Bausch- Captures the language and feel of the bottom guys on the totem pole in an army. Only a couple of days go by but enough happens for a lifetime of ... ... I feel so honored :D
#5 VisibleGhost - That's a lot of books in one week, and good ones. Thanks of the comments on Peace. I have it on my list to get from the library because of an NYTimes review, I might bump it up a little. And wasn't Under the Banner of Heaven fascinating?
So, I ... ... more time with some than others. I took 79 days to read TSD. To me, it was perfectly formatted to read in small doses.
Peace, Richard Bausch. By contrast, it took about two and a half hours to read this short, spare, sparse, beautiful WWII novel set in Italy over a period of about 48 ...
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