Alexandra Fuller’s 2001 autobiography Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight, was both poignant and funny. She recorded her childhood in Central Africa, growing up in an eccentric Anglo-African family. Fuller’s parents were true adventurers, spurning the easy English life to farm in the least habitable parts of East Africa. From frightening encounters with insects [...]
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Two For One from Alexandra Fuller … reviewed by Deborah
Posted in Adult Nonfiction, Biography, tagged Alexandra Fuller, Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness, Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight on February 16, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Begum Akhtar: Love’s Own Voice – reviewed by Devendra (patron)
Posted in Adult Fiction, Biography, Music, Outreach, tagged Begum Akhtar, Love's Own Voice, S. Kalidas on November 19, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
An appreciation by a CPL member I was attracted to this book by S. Kalidas after reading an excellent article in the local newspaper by Teresa Rehman, Community Librarian, on books about Indian musicians, and having a discussion with her. This is a fascinating biographical sketch of one of the iconic singers of 20th century. Begum Akhtar, [...]
The Marquis de Sade: A Life – reviewed by patron Ron
Posted in Adult Nonfiction, Biography, tagged Neil Schaeffer, The Marquis de Sade: A Life on February 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The Marquis de Sade was born in 1740 in the Condé Palace in Paris. He died in 1814, aged 74, in the Charenton insane asylum outside of Paris, having been diagnosed as being “in a perpetual state of libertine dementia.” Some people seem to be born with an unstoppable drive to express what they see [...]
Beethoven – reviewed by patron Ron
Posted in Adult Nonfiction, Biography, Music, tagged Beethoven, Maynard Solomon on October 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Ludwig van Beethoven was an amazing individual: a lonely and moody musical genius who was often his own worst enemy. He also lived in an amazing time: the Enlightenment, democratic revolution, a self-crowning emperor, and the emergence of the romantic movement from the classical era. Nowadays it’s thought that he suffered from manic-depression, which accounts [...]
The Master by Colm Toibin – reviewed by patron Dean
Posted in Adult Fiction, Biography, tagged Colm Toibin, Henry James on July 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
This biographical novel deals with the life of renowned American writer Henry James and is written in a smooth and beautiful style that makes the reader (or at least this reader) feel part of every aspect of James’ life. Colm Toibin, who has won many awards for this book including the Los Angeles Times’ Best [...]
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