| |
|
Eeeee Eee Eeee
Tao Lin
Melville House, 2007
Amazing
I bought this book because of the title. Little did I know that it would turn out to be the best book I've read in a very long time. I have a hard time considering it a piece of prose. It is pure poetry. Tao Lin is my new favorite writer.
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Mama Lola: A Vodou Priestess in Brooklyn Updated and Expanded Edition (Comparative Studies in Religion and ...
Karen McCarthy Brown
University of California Press, 2001
A brilliant and compelling account of "walkers between the worlds"
Walking between the worlds
Karen McCarthy Brown has penned a masterpiece! Mama Lola, known to family and friends as Alourdes, is a Mambo, an initiated priestess of Voudou who earns a modest living by serving her immigrant countrymen in America as a traditional ...
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Hospital: Man, Woman, Birth, Death, Infinity, Plus Red Tape, Bad Behavior, Money, God andDiversity on Steroids
Julie Salamon
Penguin Press HC, The, 2008
Hospital
A fascinating documentary with a drama twist of a real life Brooklyn hospital. For those who are curious about medicine and medical professionals, administrators, supportive personnel and the very sick patients who are given the best treatment regardless of their ...
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Nothing Is Quite Forgotten in Brooklyn: A Novel (P.S.)
Alice Mattison
Harper Perennial, 2008
intriguing character study
In 1989 fortyish Constance "Con" Tepper leaves her Philadelphia home to stay in her septuagenarian mom's Brooklyn apartment to watch the cat while Gertrude visits her friend Marlene in Rochester. Con has always wondered about the friendship between the two women that ...
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge
David McCullough
Simon & Schuster, 1983
"Hey, I have this Bridge in Brooklyn that I want to sell to you!!"
The engineer of the Brooklyn Bridge was John A. Roebling. Unfortunately he never saw the results of his genius. It was his Son Washington Roebling along with his wife Emily who would bring the bridge to fruition over the East River. It was the major connect between ...
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire
Jim Cymbala
Zondervan, 1997
Inspiring
One of the more inspiring books I've ever read. It makes you want to meet with Christ and see the power of what He can do. Read if you want to be humbled and empowered.
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Motherless Brooklyn
Jonathan Lethem
Vintage, 2000
A gift from a friend on Court Street in Brooklyn
An old friend of mine gave me this book as a gift. He is my only real connection with Brooklyn. I visited him there several times when he lived on Court Street and we walked its length while he told me stories about his experiences in the neighborhood and the minor ...
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Beer School: Bottling Success at the Brooklyn Brewery
Steve Hindy, Tom Potter
Wiley, 2007
A fascinating story of triumph and trials...
Just from a title perspective, this book was too good to pass up... Beer School: Bottling Success at the Brooklyn Brewery by Steve Hindy and Tom Potter. But even better, the book delivers the goods on a number of levels. One of the most enjoyable business book reads ...
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (P.S.)
Betty Smith
Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2006
A Wowing Historical Fiction Classic
I am in total awe after reading this book. In the beginning I thought it was going to be a boring and long novel. But throughout my reading I became to grow more attached to the story. The main character Francie was an intriguing and delightful creation that anyone ...
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
The Fortress of Solitude
Jonathan Lethem
Vintage, 2004
Play that funky music, white boy
What is it like to grow up a white child in a black world, "yoked" in a double-bind that keeps you small and paralyzed? It's not something you can talk about, and I never saw anyone so astutely describe the experience until I read this book.
Lethem's ...
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Sophie's Choice
William Styron
Vintage, 1992
Outstanding Piece of Literature
Sophie's Choice (Modern Library)
Outstanding piece of literature.
Somehow It makes me believe that a great portion of this accomplishment is not fiction at all, but a real life story with characters that get so much into the deepest inner self of the reader inciting ...
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
A Leader Becomes a Leader: Inspirational Stories of Leadership for a New Generation
J. Kevin Sheehan
True Gifts Publishing, 2007
Wonderful Gift
Kevin Sheehan has simplified the great qualities of important leaders and placed them in an entertaining text. A gift which I have passed on to my dearest friends, this book is both inspirational and educational. My highest recommendation.
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Man Gone Down: A Novel
Michael Thomas
Grove Press, Black Cat, 2006
Painful but Worth It
I read this book very slowly, because sometimes it was just too painful. Michael Thomas takes you under the brown skin of a young man separated from his white wife and three children while trying to earn enough money for rent on an apartment and the private school ...
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Brooklyn Bridge
Karen Hesse
Feiwel & Friends, 2008
Like a bridge over troubled... well, you know
Karen Hesse is back, baby! A person only gets so many golden opportunities in their life, you know. There are only so many times you get a chance to say that someone's back. Someone who may have taken a small vacation from writing for a while. Karen Hesse is a good ...
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Human Relations for Career and Personal Success: Concepts, Applications, and Skills (8th Edition)
Andrew J. DuBrin
Prentice Hall, 2007
|
|
|
|
|
|
