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Type: fiction

Status: finished

Author: Mary Roach

Tags: death cadavers dead macabre

Description: This book maintains a compassion for the living and a respect for the dead, while exploringThis book maintains a compassion for the living and a respect for the dead, while exploring the bizzare world of what can happen to a cadaver. It was an extremely enjoyable and thought provoking read. ...

2008-01-01

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Type: fiction

Status: finished

Author: Ingrid Hill

Tags: asian Michigan ancestors finnish

Description: I read this with a book club. It is ostensibly the tale of a little girl trapped down a well.I read this with a book club. It is ostensibly the tale of a little girl trapped down a well. But it is really using that american legend to explore what it means to be an American, or to be anyone really. Every other chapter is a story of the ancestors that led to the birth of an asian-finnish-american girl and it highlights the miracle that each one of us truly is in the context of all of the history that led up to our existence. ...

2008-01-01

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Type: fiction

Status: finished

Author: Michael Chabon

Tags: mystery wwii

Description: This is an engaging mystery that involves a once famous, long retired detective (Arthur ConanThis is an engaging mystery that involves a once famous, long retired detective (Arthur Conan Doyle fans may recognize him) in a mystery of a mute boy and his pet parrot who have escaped Nazi Germany. It is pleasing as a mystery and for the older works that it references. ...

2008-01-01

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Type: fiction

Status: finished

Author: unknown

Tags: wwii

Description: This book takes you into the golden age of comics and the story of an immigrant experienceThis book takes you into the golden age of comics and the story of an immigrant experience during nazi-era germany. The story is compelling because of the characters and I can't get enough of Chabon's writing style....

2008-01-01

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Type: fiction

Status: finished

Author: David Eggers

Description: This is a heartbreaking work, and is a very self-aware novel. It is excellent story-tellingThis is a heartbreaking work, and is a very self-aware novel. It is excellent story-telling and was enjoyable to read for structure alone. Skip the crazy intro stuff. It is there to suck in people who can't help but read the crazy intro stuff. Hilarious. That is the tone of the novel. Making the tragic and mundane hilarious....

2008-01-01

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Type: educational

Status: finished

Author: Bruce L. Shelley

Tags: religion christianity

Description: This book is just what the title purports. It makes a great armchair introduction to a complicatedThis book is just what the title purports. It makes a great armchair introduction to a complicated subject. ...

2007-10-14