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Jeffrey L Staley
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Gum Moon: A Novel of San Francisco Chinatown
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Bible and Theory: Essays in Biblical Interpretation in Honor of Stephen D. Moore
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I bought this book this past weekend at "Winter Texts. Odd and Meaningful Books" in Port Townsend, WA, after I flipped open the book and read the following poem: "Even a very dark, starless night can grow a little darker. A bat has just switched off a f ...more |
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| I loved this Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Its short chapters and non-chronological plot structure kept me engaged, and made me feel almost as though I was reading a pot-boiler rather than "literary fiction." The complex of light metaphors throughout ...more | |
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| Having just visited Jeju Island, seeing some women divers prepare for their dive, and having just finished reading Lisa See's "Island of Sea Women" (of which I not particularly impressed), I thought I would try another novel about the island. I suspe ...more | |
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| This book was recommended by our Road Scholar South Korea tour this spring. I started it before we left--but unfortunately did not finish it until after we returned. The book deals with the history of Jeju Island, off the southern coast of the Korean ...more | |
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| I loved the idea of this novel--"Huckleberry Finn" told from the point of view of "Jim." But I felt that the author was stretching at points to pull in every black history trope he could. Case in point: A Black man putting on "blackface" to present i ...more | |
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| My wife and I listened to this book on a recent trip to Oregon. We thoroughly enjoyed it. The author's description of his economic plight, the process of learning rural mail routes, his character vignettes--all the while negotiating the effects of th ...more | |
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| I loved the idea of this novel--"Huckleberry Finn" told from the point of view of "Jim." But I felt that the author was stretching at points to pull in every black history trope he could. Case in point: A Black man putting on "blackface" to present i ...more | |
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| I grew up with the Beatles, having "discovered" them when the girls I was in love with (in 1964) at the tender age of 12, screamed every time they heard them on the radio. Recently I did a one week long "Beatles Pilgrimage Tour" which, among other th ...more | |