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A Universal History of Iniquity by Jorge Luis Borges 15 Aug 2013 | 01:49 am
Borges via Reviewed by Susanna Allred Published: 1935 It's about: Borges appropriates and tweeks lives of historical criminals--Chinese pirates, Old West gunslingers, New York street toughs--to exp...
Titus Andronicus 17 Jul 2013 | 08:59 pm
Possible illustration of Titus Andronicus Reviewed by Susanna Allred Published:1588-1593? It's about: Titus Andronicus, a Roman general, and Tamora, wife of the Roman emperor engage in a bloody, bi...
Suttree by Cormac McCarthy 1 Jul 2013 | 06:42 am
via Reviewed by Susanna Allred Published: 1979 It's about: Cornelius Suttree, known to friends and his estranged family as "Buddy", has abandoned a life of prosperity and prominence to live amo...
Review: The Social Animal by David Brooks 19 Jun 2013 | 03:00 pm
via Reviewed by Christine-Chioma Published: 2011 It's about: David Brooks uses fictional characters to explore "how success happens". To quote the summary on goodreads (cheating): "Drawing on a wea...
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera 29 May 2013 | 08:44 pm
Memorial to victims of 1968 Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia, via Reviewed by Susanna Allred Published: English translation, 1984 It's about: A quartet of European intellectuals attempt to under...
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera 29 May 2013 | 08:44 pm
Memorial to victims of 1968 Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia, via Reviewed by Susanna Allred Published: English translation, 1984 It's about: A quartet of European intellectuals attempt to under...
If on a winter's night a traveler bY Italo Calvino 19 May 2013 | 07:49 am
via Reviewed by Susanna Allred Published:1979 in Italian, 1981 in English It's about: If on a winter's night a traveler is not a novel, but rather, fragments of many novels. The fragments are inter...
If on a winter's night a traveler bY Italo Calvino 19 May 2013 | 07:49 am
via Reviewed by Susanna Allred Published:1979 in Italian, 1981 in English It's about: If on a winter's night a traveler is not a novel, but rather, fragments of many novels. The fragments are inter...
The Diary of Napoleonic Foot Soldier by Jakob Walter 12 May 2013 | 03:56 am
In 1812, by Illarion Pryashnikov, via Reviewed by Susanna Allred Published: 1991 It's about: The Diary of a Napoleonic Foot Soldier is the memoir of Jakob Walter, a German conscript in Napoleon's G...
The Diary of Napoleonic Foot Soldier by Jakob Walter 12 May 2013 | 03:56 am
In 1812, by Illarion Pryashnikov, via Reviewed by Susanna Allred Published: 1991 It's about: The Diary of a Napoleonic Foot Soldier is the memoir of Jakob Walter, a German conscript in Napoleon's G...
