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The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah (Books to Read During a Pandemic, Part 64)

Posted on June 18, 2021 by bseat

Sometimes, during hard times it is helpful to be reminded that there have been other hard times in our past, some that were even more tragic or more difficult than the ones we are currently going through. In The Four … Continue reading →

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Is that a Fish in Your Ear? Translation and the Meaning of Everything by David Bellos and One Hundred Frogs by Hiroaki Sato (Books to Read During a Pandemic, Part 61)

Posted on May 28, 2021 by bseat

As a translator I am fascinated by how words, phrases and texts morph from one language to another. For example there is a famous haiku poem by the Japanese poet Basho about a pond, a frog, and the noise of … Continue reading →

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The Tsar of Love and Techno by Anthony Marra (Books to Read During a Pandemic, Part 58)

Posted on May 7, 2021 by bseat

Anthony Marra is truly gift writer. His Constellation of Vital Phenomenon is on my, “All Time Best Books I Ever Read” list. I don’t actually physically keep such a list, but if I did it would be one of the … Continue reading →

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Ready Player One by Ernest Cline (Books to Read During a Pandemic, Part 57)

Posted on April 30, 2021 by bseat

The year is 2045. All the things that humanity worried about; climate change, eco destruction and gross inequalities between the haves and have nots, have come to fruition. Earth is a dying planet and the only escape is OASIS, a … Continue reading →

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The Hamilton Affair by Elizabeth Cobbs (Books To Read During a Pandemic, Part 53)

Posted on March 26, 2021 by bseat

Like many of you, as soon as Hamilton, The Musical, was available online, we signed up to see it. My husband and I have watched it numerous time since then. Powerful, full of energy and starring an amazing and diverse … Continue reading →

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How Much of These Hills is Gold by C Pam Zhang ( Books to Read During a Pandemic, Part 51)

Posted on March 12, 2021 by bseat

First they lost the baby and then Ma, and then they lost Ba. Now it is just the two siblings, Lucy and Sam. Still children themselves, they leave the miners camp and try to find a place to bury their … Continue reading →

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The King at the Edge of the World by Arthur Phillips (Books to Read During a Pandemic, Part 50)

Posted on March 5, 2021 by bseat

It is 1601, and Queen Elizabeth is dying. Childless, she has yet to designate an heir and King James VI of Scotland is the leading contender. However, there are suspicions that he is secretly a Catholic and might cause another … Continue reading →

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The Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi (Books to Read During a Pandemic, Part 48)

Posted on February 19, 2021 by bseat

Are science and faith incompatible? That is the underlying question in Gyasi’s novel The Transcendent Kingdom, but she explores it as if using a kaleidoscope, twisting the picture so that new images and understandings emerge and we can see things … Continue reading →

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The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel (Books to Read During a Pandemic, Part 47)

Posted on February 12, 2021 by bseat

One night, at an exclusive and remote hotel on the tip of Vancouver Island, someone etched with acid the following words on the large picture window in the bar: “Why don’t you swallow broken glass.”  Who was the message for … Continue reading →

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The Piano Tuner by Daniel Mason (Books to Read During a Pandemic, Part 43)

Posted on January 15, 2021 by bseat

Daniel Mason, is fast becoming one of my favorite authors. The Piano Tuner was published before The Winter Soldier which I really enjoyed and reviewed previously, and I found it just as engrossing and even more lyrical and mysterious. In … Continue reading →

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