Books Recommended by SWT Friends
If you have a book to share, come to our next meeting and talk about it. SWT patrons and friends ( join us) may email book recommendations to swtlibraryfriends@gmail.com. Include title, author, your short review (less than 100 words), and your name. Recommended books should be in the collection of the Seattle Public Library. See also SPL Shelf Talk. | |
posted Apr 2, 2010 5:44 PM by Julie E
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Best book I've read in a long time! A beautiful little gem, The True Deceiver has surprising and intriguing characters who stay with you long after you close the book. The writing is spare, elegant, and carefully crafted. You may know Jansson better as the author of the Moomintrolls books. Last year I found out she also wrote adult fiction. This translation was only recently published--I'm hoping more of her adult fiction will be translated soon! |
posted Mar 25, 2010 9:30 PM by SWT Friends Admin
Engaging stories of America's
founding mothers including Martha Washington, Abigail Adams, Mercy Otis Warren,
Catherine Littlefield Green, and Sarah Livingston Jay. Women were not supposed
to even think about politics, but that didn't stop these women from influencing
events. Lively letter excerpts. Well researched.
Recommended by Keith Enevoldsen
November, 2009
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posted Mar 25, 2010 9:30 PM by SWT Friends Admin
Marillier reworks the Celtic
fairytale in which six brothers are turned into six swans and their sister,
Sorcha, undertakes to free them from the spell. All of Marillier's fantasies
are beautifully written and this is one of my favorites. First book in a
trilogy.
Recommended by Alison Kennedy
August, 2009
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posted Mar 25, 2010 9:29 PM by SWT Friends Admin
Elegant storytelling. The story of
Thorvald, brought up by his widowed mother in the Orkneys in a half-Norse
half-Celtic community, and his journey to discover the truth about his father.
Sequel to Wolfskin.
Recommended by Alison Kennedy
August, 2009
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posted Mar 25, 2010 9:29 PM by SWT Friends Admin
French editor Bauby, completely
paralyzed by a stroke, used his left eye to blink out his memoir describing the
experience of being shut in. Incredibly intense. Pure poetry.
Recommended by Alison Kennedy
May, 2009
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posted Mar 25, 2010 9:28 PM by SWT Friends Admin
In this parallel world, scientists
and philosophers, not clerics, are cloistered in monasteries that are thousands
of years old and are opened only at rare intervals.
Recommended by Julie Enevoldsen
May, 2009
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posted Mar 25, 2010 9:27 PM by SWT Friends Admin
Salvatore, a poor Sicilian farmer at
the turn of the 20th century, decides to emigrate to the US. Postcards show the
ground covered with coins, rivers of milk, and huge carrots. After passing
through Ellis Island, they meet with reality. Based on diaries. So moving. It
hits at something basic.
Recommended by Christy Tyson
February, 2009
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posted Mar 25, 2010 9:27 PM by SWT Friends Admin
The way she writes about nature is
so tender. Wonderful metaphors, such as describing the experience of nature as
the Rapture. Great poems about her dog.
Recommended by Sarel Rowe
January, 2009
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posted Mar 25, 2010 9:26 PM by SWT Friends Admin
To avoid regulation, the tobacco, pharmaceutical,
and chemical industries must instill doubt that scientific research is valid.
Badly written, but provocative.
Recommended by Julie Enevoldsen
January, 2009
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posted Mar 25, 2010 9:26 PM by SWT Friends Admin
"Why would a married woman with
a thoroughly Protestant background and often more doubt than faith be drawn to
the ancient practice of monasticism...?" The author chronicles her
experience as an oblate living in a Benedictine monastery.
Recommended by Dennis Gruenig
September, 2008
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