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Book Review: Trust by Domenico Starnone

Posted on January 21, 2022 by Kevin Holtsberry / 1 Comment

Trust by Domenico Starnone is the second of a handful of short books that I picked up at the local library (the first was Comfort Me with Apples). PublisherR...

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A Man by Keiichirō Hirano

Posted on January 25, 2021 by Kevin Holtsberry / 0 Comment

It all makes for a rather melancholy and -- in its complicated investigations and its details -- oddly wending-all-over-the-place novel, but also an interesting...

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The Shape of Water by Andrea Camilleri

Posted on July 3, 2020 by Kevin Holtsberry / 0 Comment

I think this is the sort of book you have to be in the mood for. The humor just didn't resonate with me and none of the characters really struck me.

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A Long Way Off by Pascal Garnier

Posted on March 25, 2020 by Kevin Holtsberry / 1 Comment

What an odd little book. Bills itself as noir but veers close to black comedy. It is French so perhaps I should have expected weird … :-)

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Job: A New Translation by Edward L. Greenstein

Posted on December 8, 2019 by Kevin Holtsberry / 2 Comments

Greenstein’s Job is a bold, highly original challenge to centuries, if not millenniums, of scholarship and theology. It is a no-holds-barred assertion of a new...

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The Great and the Good by Michel Deon

Posted on March 14, 2017 by Jeff Grim / 0 Comment

The book is intriguing because it almost feels like a classic. A classic in the sense that it captures the time period perfectly - 1950's America as an industri...

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