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(1) 2016 American South Appalachia memoir class culture economic conditions family hillbilly Kentucky non-fiction Ohio politics poverty rural social class (1) 20th c life of a Missourian English professor who loves teaching (1) 47 days at sea (1) 6-7 day coma (1) 636 houses. Meterologist/doctor Isaac Kline deals with constant weather predicting politics. His superiors ignored the Cuban forecasts. Well researched (1) a NY socialite (1) a Roosevelt (1) a waiter in dining room fabulous writing (1) a young ambitious German doctor performed unethical medical "research." Another woman (1) adoption (1) adored (1) adult children (1) adultery (1) Afghanistan (1) Afghantistan (1) afterlife (1) aging brain (1) aging brain needs new skills (learn a new language!). Buy this book for family members! (1) Alito (1) altho it hints that protection was never given so if the Lusitania were torpedoed (1) although the first 90 or so pp she talks about her loss to Obama. (1) amazing vocabulary (1) Ambassador William Dodd (1) American history (2) American manufacturing losing to China (1) Amherst College (1) amusing read (1) ancient world (1) angel=sister (1) Angela (1) apd (1) APD (1) are geniuses. ...How D/C electricity becomes the standard over A/C (Powerful & true description electrifying animals with D/C and later a man in the electric chair. (1) Army air force (1) art thefts around the world: Isabella Stuart Gardner (1) assassination of JFK (1) at the end of the book she finds her mentor and true love. (1) atomism (1) auditory processing disorder (1) Australia triplets (1) author realizes that humans and goshawks are different (1) autistic savant (1) autobio (1) autobiography (2) autobiography: childhood in Oklahoma (1) Aviation (1) Balkans fiction wierd DeathlessMan civil war grandfather/granddaughter doctors death (1) bankruptcy (1) bartender (1) Basic Iretirement planning. Where to live. Health. family issues. (1) beautifully written (1) beautifully written book (1) Berlin (1) best seller Cleo author (1) Bible (1) Bill Gates (1) Bill of Rights (1) biography (3) Biography (2) biography. Thoroughly researched. Finished April '13. (1) Black (1) black tape bought by daughter (1) blames (1) blind girl (1) bone marrow transplant (1) Boston Molasses Flood (1) brain cancer (1) Bram and an elephant (1) breast cancer (1) bright (1) Buddhism (1) but briefly: biography (1) but it gets interesting with the inventions around the 1875 period. LOt of politics--Boss Tweed... Bridge finished in 1803.. Book lent by Jane Hammond (1) but no recollections of stories because nothing moved me. D really liked it & sent a copy to L. (1) but not well written. Non-fiction. (1) but saves no one else; Werner discovers French blind girl who transmits Jules Verne by braille reading & also transmits classical music. 2014 Pulitzer Prize for fiction; Nat'l Book Award. One of the best books I've ever read. (1) but still loves to hunt with Mabel. New Yorker & NYT gave book good review--but it's not my kind of book--nor did I think it was as wonderfully well-written as the reviews seemed to indicate. (1) California (1) cancer (3) Caroline Ferriday (1) cars (1) cat (1) Cat & Gemma Kettle (1) cat approval (1) Category 4 hurricane remains worse US weather disaster. The cat 4 hurricane kille 6-8000.. It destroyed 2 (1) catergorizing (1) change oneself (1) chef (1) China (1) CIA (1) civil war (1) collaboration (2) columbian author (1) commmitment (1) concern with middle Americans (1) Conde Nast. From lower East Side to wealthy society. BRILLIANT writer altho I enjoyed the story line in his 2nd book (1) conflicts between RFK NS LBJ (1) Connection between Brooklyn & NYC. Slow read; too much detail. Writing not that good. I skimmed a lot of passages (1)	cooking (1) Count Alexander Rostov becomes head waiter in fancy hotel restaurant for ~20 years (1) Count/comrade becomes a spy for British (1) courage (1) courtroom (1) courtroom drama (1) critically important book for the aging (1) culture Indian mother daughter chick book (1) current trends (1) Dan's mistress.Triplets parents divorce & re-marriage...etc. (1) dana farber boston (1) daughter (1) daughter Nina (1) death of son who was run over (1) Decisions (1) determination (1) Detroit Motor City (1) diamond protects "owner" (1) difficult people (1) dimentia (1) diplomacy (1) disturbing (1) divorce (1) dog (3) dog breeding & training (1) domineering husband (1) don't sit. Get up 32x/day. Important to move body! Fitness (1) donation ideas & places (1) draughts (1) dwarf (1) dysfunctional family (1) e-coli (1) early modern history (1) economics (1) Edith wife (1) education (1) endurance (1) England (?) and U.S. Teak forest. Mosie circus trained by Bram to perform her own act w/out trainer being present. Bram helped (1) Epicureanism (1) espionage (1) Europe (1) excellent writing (1) Ezra goes from being a tennis jock to a nerd. Cassidy Thorpe's (Ezra's girlfriend) brother responsible for the car accident which left Ezra on crutches. (1) fabulously written w incredible descriptions (1) Falmouth road race (1) family (2) family insights interwoven in stories. PUBLIZER PRIZE WINNER IN 1998. (1) family love (1) family support (1) fast-moving short chapters (1) FastForWord (for language impaired and learning disabled children) (1) father (1) father carved houses of city so daughter could navigate (1) father of Eleanor Roosevelt committed suicide in his 30's (?). She (1) FBI politics (1) FBI undercover art agent (1) FEMA (1) fiction (7) Financial planning advice (1) found (1) four wives of Jacob (1) France (1) Franklin Delano Roosevelt. (1) French Resistance (1) friends=seamstress (1) funds (1) Gemma's husband's sister (1) genius (1) Gentleman in Moscow (1) Germany (1) global countries (1) Gordon Finch friend & Dean (1) Grace (1) gravity (1) Greek-American family (1) Green Villange and Long Island. (1) grey circus only offers shows at night that are orchestrated by Celia. After finishing A Gentleman in Moscow (1) grief (1) Hands (1) hard to put book down (1) Harvard U prof (1) healing (1) health. Non-fiction. (1) hence my high rating. (1) hermaphrodite (1) high divorce rate. Engaging style of writing. Psychological "tricks" of a ensuring a strong marriage & partnership. Division of finances & other "rules." Non-fiction. (1) hiring professionals (1) his friend severely wounded (1) historical fiction (2) Historical fiction. Adventure. Romance. Set in Bolshevik period right before Russian Revolution and the killing of Tsar's family. Gliimpse into v rich and v poor. Ends w escape from Petrograd (St. Petersbury name from '14 - '24. Then Leninggrad.) Page tur (1) Historical fiction. Alzheimers. Paintings in the Hermitage. Title of book refers to the many Madonna paintings in the Hermitage. Siege of Leningrad by the Germans ~1941. I should have Googled the paintings while main character (1) historical fiction. E. Prussia. End of WWII in Europe. Hitler. Jews. Gypsies. Concentration camp. Forced labor & cruelties. Trakehner saddle horses. Escape routes. Bahamas. I cried several times; reread several passages. Manya (aristocrat) (1) historical fiction. Mary Sutter's attempts to do more than midwifery. At the beginning of the civil she leaves her home (1) Historical novel. Rivalry between Edison (1) History (1) history (5) history of husbands's suicide (1) history of ideas (1) history of philosophy (1) History US Politics US Presidents. not-well written (1) Hollis Lomax enemy.Set between WW I and mid 1950's. (1) home organization (1) hope (1) horrible book; author trains a killer falcon (1) house (Metropol hotel) arrest (1) how to support/appreciate a husband who makes less money (1) Hull (1) Hurricane Katrina (1) I couldn't finish the book. I enjoyed chapter on Benghazi the most (1)	I found Night Circus boring and poorly written. It's a fantasy about dreams. Celia & Marco's romance altho they are each other's magical antagonist. (Recommended by Jane Hammond) (1) if not the best (1) in fact (1) in their own way (1) incredible BRILLIANT descriptions (1) Incredibly talented descriptions & use of vocabulary. Superior writing style. Not a particularly pleasant story. (1) India (1) Information (1) information society (1) innovation (1) intellect. Father-in-law (1) intelligence (1) Internet (1) invention (1) is Cat's husband (1) is describing them in the book. I particularly liked the way the author flashed chapters back & forth between present day and Marina's Hermitage days. Love story. (1) isolationist caution at all levels of the U.S. (including the Wilson White House) kept the country out for another two years. This reticence may have led German warmongers (1) Japanese cruelty (1) Japanese internment camps (1) Japanese internment in WA and then Idaho. WWII. Japanese Americans. Chinese Americans. Fiction. The writing is superb (1) Japanese prisoner of war (1) JapaneseCanadian internment in WWII (1) Jewish (1) Jimmy Carter & Olympics (1) Joshi (gypsie MD) (1) journalist (1) Julius Caesar (1) Justifications (1) Katharine (1) Katherine mistress (1) keep focused on other things besides son's illness (1) Kindle (2) kindness (1) Kitty Hawk (1) knew 11 (?) presidents (1) large diamond + 3 copies (1) last Christmas (1) librarian (1) life (1) Life after the tsars; Stalin period then introduced to Krushchev via a dining table seating (1) life/death (1) Lillian (Jew) =main characters among many characters. (1) Lincoln (1) log of events while Sec of State (1) Lots of multiple-religions philosophies Fiction. Meditation. Road trip from NJ to N Dakota. Otto (1) Louie Zamperini (1) love (2) love story wife killed in plane crash (1) loved & admired by many people--Kelly (1) loving husband Philip (1) Lucretius (1) Lusitania (1) Lyn (1) Mabel goshawk (1) main character (1) Manzanar camp (1) marathons & other distances (1) marijuana cartel (1) marijuana pilot murdered (1) Marina (1) Mark Antony (1) married cousin (1) Martha Dodd's lovers (1) Mason Tate (1) materialism (1) Maya (1) medicine (1) Melbourne Australia (1) memoir only of Sec of State years (1) meningitus (1) midwifery (1) miscarrige (1) Modern day French literature classic. Basic thread: a son's strong love for his mother. (1) modernity (1) more. (1) Moscow (1) Mosie. Both born on same day & (1) mother & twin sister (1) mother-son emails between Gloria Vanderbilt & Anderson Cooper. (1) mothers and daughters (1) move (1) murder of father & later of son by father's brother (1) my fitness coach. (1) Nat'l Book Award winner for fiction for 2002. Generational Scottish family story. Traces members through Greece (1) Nazi (1) Nazi Germany (1) near-death experience (1) neurologist (1) neuroplasticity (1) never give up (1) New England (1) newspaper labor unions. Brilliant woman (1) Nina's daughter Sophia (1) no life after death (1) Non-fiction (3) non-fiction (12) North Carolina (1) North end (1) north korea non-fiction escapes (1) not a page turner (1) novel (3) novel (poorly written) (1) NYTimes (1) O'Connor (1) Ohio (1) old folks' memories (1) Olympian runner (1) order (1) Orville (1)	particularly in the Navy (1) pcs. Ada Lovelace (1) Pentagon Papers (1) politics (1) Politics (2) Posit Science web site (1) powerful (1) pre-WWII (1) preacher father (1) prohibition (1) prolific writer (1) psychology (1) psychotic cat Jonah (1) Pulitzer Prize 2007. Postapocalyptic novel. End of the world. Set in burned and ashen America. novel. Father/son love. Survival. Faith. Hope? (1) Pulitzer Prize non-fiction 2012 winner; one of the best (1) Pulitzer prize winner (1) Pulizer Prize 2002. (1) Pulizer prize 2003 (1) purging (1) putting cat to sleep at 23+ years (1) queen (1) race riots (1) Ravensbtück German concentration camp for women. Most of the women were Polish. The story of three women: one of whom (1) reception history (1) reception of classical culture (1) recommended by LWM's book group (1) remarriage (1) retirement communities (1) Ripping Yarns is a confusing name for a bookstore. Light (1) Roberts (1) Rome (1) Roosevelt (1) Russia (1) Russian revolution (1) saving only truly-loved items (1) science vs religion (1) Scotland (1) Scout stays in the South at end of book--hopefully she can help change the Alabama culture; her father is a racist. Disappointed in book--all the hype was not deserved. (1) See my review below for tag info (1) Senator from MA (won Ted Kennedy's seat) (1) Sept 8 (1) short stories (1) Short stories. Good writing (1) Shows why the writing in the New Yorker is some of the best anywhere. (1) signs of impending mortality (1) sister's becomes Buddha's spiritual wife & has a daughter by him. They open a center in Otto & her parents' farm in ND. (1) son (2) Sophia (Joshi's sister) (1) Southern prejudices (1) Soviet Union (1) Sri Lanka (1) St. Malo (1) stand (1) starvation (1) Steve Jobs (1) Stracher an Amherst College author & lawyer & writer (1) strength (1) stretch (1) suicide (1) super-rich (1) SUPERB DESCRIPTIVE WRITING (1) supply chains (1) survival (2) survival of a 10-year separation. Story takes place in Germany (Bram is a Jew) (1) teaching (1) teen book (1) Tesla. Gravath is Westinghouse's lawyer. All (1) Texas death-row inmates. Poignant. (1) the challenges of female breadwinners:6-figure salaries (1) the internet (1) the mind (1) the Renaissance (1) then why temper their bloodthirsty?" Book tells of the highly secret code-breaking Room 40 (1) to act with impunity. If killing massive numbers of American citizens didn't bring down the hammer (1) to cope with the sudden death of her father. Author helps Mabel kill rabbits by breaking their necks and pulling off legs for Mabel to eat. At end (1) to try to become a doctor and surgeon. After many amputations (and much later acceptance at a college) she succeeds under horrific conditions for everyone. She is an ultra-strong woman and 2 MDs are in love with her. After missing him for 5 years (1) Tolkachev (1) Towels 1st book. Brilliant writer. Historical fiction. 1938-1960? NY Society. Several Russian references. Portraits of Katey Content (key heroine & huge book reader). Evey & Tinker Grey. Tinker and Katey & Anne Grandyn (1) tragic (1) True story of a boy (1) Turner Lusitania captain (1) U20 submarine that sank Lusitania. It doesn't discover why Lusitania was never given destroyer protection (1) unpleasant subjects (1) US Supreme Court (2) Vanguard index (1) Vietnam & LBJ (1) Wallace (& rifles) romance (1) Washington Post publisher (1) Watergate & Nixon (1) well into their 70's die within 2 days of each other. Bram "tuned into" Mosie. Affection training. Survival at sea (1) well researched (1) well written but v academic--too many details that at times get boring. Teddy Roosevelt's life before politics begin in earnest. V close to father & sister; 2 marriages w 5 kids (1 kid by 1st marriage); asthmatic; loved far west & S (?) Dakota. Brother El (1) well-researched but not well-written (1) Westinghouse (1) white (1) Wilbur (1) William Stoner (1) with its thousand plus civilian casualties led immediately to the U.S. intervention in WWI. To the contrary (1) Woodrow Wilson might finally decide to enter the war. Very researched book. Good read. Non fiction. (1) work on Dodd-Frank bill (1) work w Timothy Geithner (1) worked at French consulate (1) written books I've read. Goldblatt's turn of phrase is amazing. I re-read phrases & paragraphs in admiration of his writing. (1) WWII (2) WWII bombadier (1) young (1) (no tag) (23)

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