BOOKS
Patient Frame, by Steven Heighton, House of Anansi
by Brian Campbell
22.05.2011
The reading gets heavy and, frankly, heavy-handed at times as one is taken through scenes from the Viet Nam war, a lynching in the deep South, sexual abuse of choir boys, a deer turned into roadkill, a corpse-strewn battlefield from the Norman invasion of 1066. At certain points, this reader wanted to say, Lighten up, friend. At others, though, he said, Go on, probe these depths.
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BOOKS
Good Book: The Bizarre, Hilarious, Disturbing, Marvelous, And Inspiring Things I Learned When I Read Every Single Word Of The Bible, by David Plotz, Harper Perennial.
by Brian Campbell
19.12.2010
Anyone out there who’s read the whole Bible from cover to cover, raise your hands. What, no one? Is this any surprise? David Plotz, a self-described lax (if not lapsed) Jew, in a moment of boredom during a rare synagogue visit, picked up the Torah from the rack and flipped it open at random to [...]
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