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wrgvt
Feb 12, 2012, 8:30:30 PM2/12/12
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Hi all,
Multiple links to full-length professional reviews of the following
books released in the US have been added to http://www.reviewsofbooks.com
in the last week:
"Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai
Undercity" by Katherine Boo - In "Behind the Beautiful Forevers,"
journalist Katherine Boo tells the story of one slum in Mumbai,
India. Annawadi has 3,000 people living in 335 huts crammed into one-
half acre next to a lake of sewage, and it has concrete wall to block
the view of the slum for travelers to and from the airport. In a
newly prosperous India, Annawadi's inhabitants have their own small
dreams of a better life. These dreams, however, run into roadblocks
that keep them impoverished: corruption, both political and personal,
cruelty, tragedy, and a worldwide recession that affects the poor
first. Katherine Boo's book has received positive reviews with
Entertainment Weekly saying, "'Behind the Beautiful Forevers' is a
riveting, fearlessly reported portrait of a poverty so obliterating
that it amounts to a slow-motion genocide. Right now the book is
sitting on my shelf making all the other books feel stupid."
Excerpt and all reviews are at:
http://www.reviewsofbooks.com/behind_the_beautiful_forevers
"Kayak Morning: Reflections on Love, Grief, and Small Boats" by Roger
Rosenblatt - "Kayak Morning" is a follow-up book to Roger Rosenblatt's
"Making Toast," where he told of the life changes brought about by the
death of his daughter. Two-and-a-half years after her death, he takes
up kayaking near his Long Island. While kayaking, he has time to
meditate on literature, loss, grief, solitude, healing, and love.
Roger Rosenblatt's book has received positive reviews with the
Washington Post saying, "To keep a family going at a time of great
loss is hard work, demanding both courage and stamina. To choose to
spend time alone with the deep personal sadness caused by a child's
death may be even more difficult. Yet Rosenblatt's meditations in
'Kayak Morning' show us that it is possible in this way - and perhaps
only in this way - to bring oneself through an all-consuming grief,
and to discover beyond it the imperishable constant that is love."
All reviews are at:
http://www.reviewsofbooks.com/kayak_morning
Happy reading!
Bill - administrator of http://www.reviewsofbooks.com
Multiple links to full-length professional reviews of the following
books released in the US have been added to http://www.reviewsofbooks.com
in the last week:
"Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai
Undercity" by Katherine Boo - In "Behind the Beautiful Forevers,"
journalist Katherine Boo tells the story of one slum in Mumbai,
India. Annawadi has 3,000 people living in 335 huts crammed into one-
half acre next to a lake of sewage, and it has concrete wall to block
the view of the slum for travelers to and from the airport. In a
newly prosperous India, Annawadi's inhabitants have their own small
dreams of a better life. These dreams, however, run into roadblocks
that keep them impoverished: corruption, both political and personal,
cruelty, tragedy, and a worldwide recession that affects the poor
first. Katherine Boo's book has received positive reviews with
Entertainment Weekly saying, "'Behind the Beautiful Forevers' is a
riveting, fearlessly reported portrait of a poverty so obliterating
that it amounts to a slow-motion genocide. Right now the book is
sitting on my shelf making all the other books feel stupid."
Excerpt and all reviews are at:
http://www.reviewsofbooks.com/behind_the_beautiful_forevers
"Kayak Morning: Reflections on Love, Grief, and Small Boats" by Roger
Rosenblatt - "Kayak Morning" is a follow-up book to Roger Rosenblatt's
"Making Toast," where he told of the life changes brought about by the
death of his daughter. Two-and-a-half years after her death, he takes
up kayaking near his Long Island. While kayaking, he has time to
meditate on literature, loss, grief, solitude, healing, and love.
Roger Rosenblatt's book has received positive reviews with the
Washington Post saying, "To keep a family going at a time of great
loss is hard work, demanding both courage and stamina. To choose to
spend time alone with the deep personal sadness caused by a child's
death may be even more difficult. Yet Rosenblatt's meditations in
'Kayak Morning' show us that it is possible in this way - and perhaps
only in this way - to bring oneself through an all-consuming grief,
and to discover beyond it the imperishable constant that is love."
All reviews are at:
http://www.reviewsofbooks.com/kayak_morning
Happy reading!
Bill - administrator of http://www.reviewsofbooks.com
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