http://ftbooks.wordpress.com Opinionated, eclectic book reviews Wed, 01 May 2013 03:20:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://ftbooks.wordpress.com/2009/05/12/the-thing-about-life-is-that-one-day-you-will-be-dead-by-david-shields/#comment-1415 Wed, 01 May 2013 03:20:19 +0000 http://ftbooks.wordpress.com/?p=804#comment-1415 [...] book, but sadly with How Literature Saved My Life he is nowhere as successful as with The Thing about Life is That One Day You Will be Dead, which I thought was a delightful mix of personal anecdotes, literary quotes, and reflections. This [...]

]]> http://ftbooks.wordpress.com/2013/02/21/arcadia-by-lauren-groff/#comment-1402 Thu, 18 Apr 2013 03:12:12 +0000 http://ftbooks.wordpress.com/?p=3786#comment-1402 [...] the Khmer Rouges of Cambodia), and not so much of My Life in Orange: Growing Up with the Guru or Arcadia, memoirs of other children brought up in [...]

]]> http://ftbooks.wordpress.com/2013/03/06/in-the-shadow-of-the-banyan-by-vaddey-ratner/#comment-1401 Thu, 18 Apr 2013 03:12:07 +0000 http://ftbooks.wordpress.com/?p=3816#comment-1401 [...] quite a stir. The story reminded me most of insane totalitarian regimes (as told, for instance, In the Shadow of the Banyan, about the Khmer Rouges of Cambodia), and not so much of My Life in Orange: Growing Up with the [...]

]]> http://ftbooks.wordpress.com/2011/03/15/minding-frankie-by-maeve-binchy/#comment-1400 Wed, 17 Apr 2013 03:55:06 +0000 http://ftbooks.wordpress.com/?p=2270#comment-1400 [...] Week in Winter is the last novel of Maeve Binchy, in a setting that’s a tad artificial in its gathering of strangers at a newly-opened bed and [...]

]]> http://ftbooks.wordpress.com/2010/04/08/the-weed-that-strings-the-hangmans-bag-by-alan-bradley/#comment-1392 Sat, 06 Apr 2013 03:24:02 +0000 http://ftbooks.wordpress.com/?p=1523#comment-1392 [...] the Flavia De Luce series, I Am Half-Sick of Shadows is a bit of a lightweight, as a Christmas story with a highly [...]

]]> http://ftbooks.wordpress.com/2012/04/27/behind-the-beautiful-forevers-by-katherine-boo/#comment-1387 Sat, 30 Mar 2013 03:33:49 +0000 http://ftbooks.wordpress.com/?p=3127#comment-1387 [...] you lke this book and have not read Behind the Beautiful Forevers yet, read it [...]

]]> http://ftbooks.wordpress.com/2010/03/18/cherry-by-mary-karr/#comment-1386 Sat, 30 Mar 2013 03:33:46 +0000 http://ftbooks.wordpress.com/?p=1472#comment-1386 [...] voice narrative, rarely achieved with any level of success (success here, failure here and here). And the story, which I imagine is set in Lahore, where the author lives, although it never says [...]

]]> http://ftbooks.wordpress.com/2011/06/16/please-look-after-mom-by-kyung-sook-shin/#comment-1385 Sat, 30 Mar 2013 03:33:43 +0000 http://ftbooks.wordpress.com/?p=2485#comment-1385 [...] second-person voice narrative, rarely achieved with any level of success (success here, failure here and here). And the story, which I imagine is set in Lahore, where the author lives, although it [...]

]]> http://ftbooks.wordpress.com/2012/11/20/this-is-how-you-lose-her-by-junot-diaz/#comment-1384 Sat, 30 Mar 2013 03:33:40 +0000 http://ftbooks.wordpress.com/?p=3554#comment-1384 [...] the feat of the second-person voice narrative, rarely achieved with any level of success (success here, failure here and here). And the story, which I imagine is set in Lahore, where the author lives, [...]

]]> http://ftbooks.wordpress.com/2010/12/01/the-disappearing-spoon-by-sam-kean/#comment-1382 Thu, 28 Mar 2013 03:12:11 +0000 http://ftbooks.wordpress.com/?p=2061#comment-1382 [...] you want in-depth information, this is not the book for you, I can recommend this book about the history of the periodic table, for [...]

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