February 2012
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Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton
Cry, The Beloved Country is about apartheid when it was beginning in 1946 in South Africa. The book follows the journey of a black priest named Stephen Kumalo, as he goes from his small tribal village to the large city Johannesburg in search of his sister, brother and son. He was sent a letter from another priest Msimangu telling him that his sister was very ill and he must come at once. When he...
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
Refreshingly short-winded. Too often classics go on and on about trivial things which turn delightful 200 page novels into boring 500 pages novels; Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is an exception being only 75 pages in length; it gets right to the point. It is written through the viewpoint of Mr. Utterson, a friend of Dr. Jekyll who becomes very concerned by his friend’s recent behavior, however...
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The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff
An adorable little book that takes the concepts of a thousand year old philosophy and makes it understandable using the children’s character, Winnie-the-Pooh.
“While Eeyore frets, and Piglet hestitates, and Rabbit calculates, and Owl pontificates, Pooh just is.”
Taoists (pronounced ‘dow-ists’) want to achieve being one with nature and to find true wisdom, which...
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The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler
This is a book for Jane Austen fans, which I am, so I loved it. It follows the lives of 5 women and 1 man while they come together for a book club that is “all Jane Austen, all the time.” The club is formed to help a member through a recent separation and impending divorce, 6 members for the 6 Austen novels, all fans, except Grigg the only man in the club who has also never read an...
“By a partial, prejudiced and ignorant historian.” -Jane Austen”
