I've been doing Throwback Thursdays for a while but I noticed that I wrote a lot of reviews in a short time when I first started. One of my blogger friends always posts the reviews of one month but that would be too much. So, these are my reviews from July 2012.
Noa Bercovitch, Pascale "The Dolphin’s Boy: A Story of Courage and Friendship" (F: Oline, le dauphin du miracle) - 2000
The author was an athlete who had a terrible accident on a train and subsequently had to have her legs amputated. In her partly autobiographical book, she tells us about the Bedouin boy Abdullah who fell out of a tree at the age of five and was deaf ever since.
Pasternak, Boris "Doctor Zhivago" (RUS: Доктор Живаго) - 1957
Boris Pasternak has a great way of telling a "very simple story", as he put it himself. Not really that simple, lots of complications in the life of our hero, Jura Zhivago, a doctor and a poet.
Shields, Carol "Jane Austen. A Life" - 2001
Carol Shields managed to write a good account of a life at a time where there were no journalists or paparazzi around to reveal every single step a famous person made.
Westerman, Frank "The Republic of Grain" (NL: De graanrepubliek) - 1999
Bristow, Gwen "Plantation Trilogy" (Deep Summer, The Handsome Road, This Side of Glory) - 1937-40
One of my favourite stories about the Deep South ever. If you work your way through this trilogy, you go form the first settlers in the 1700s until the early year of the last century.
One of my favourite stories about the Deep South ever. If you work your way through this trilogy, you go form the first settlers in the 1700s until the early year of the last century.
Haruf, Kent "Plainsong" - 1999
The story of a father raising his teenager sons alone in a small town. And other settlers.
The story of a father raising his teenager sons alone in a small town. And other settlers.
Kemal, Yaşar "The Drumming-Out" (TK: Teneke) - 1987
A young administrator in a town in the Anatolian province tries to fight a big landlord who floods large portions of land to grow rice but doesn't care about the effects on the population.
A young administrator in a town in the Anatolian province tries to fight a big landlord who floods large portions of land to grow rice but doesn't care about the effects on the population.
Noa Bercovitch, Pascale "The Dolphin’s Boy: A Story of Courage and Friendship" (F: Oline, le dauphin du miracle) - 2000
The author was an athlete who had a terrible accident on a train and subsequently had to have her legs amputated. In her partly autobiographical book, she tells us about the Bedouin boy Abdullah who fell out of a tree at the age of five and was deaf ever since.
Boris Pasternak has a great way of telling a "very simple story", as he put it himself. Not really that simple, lots of complications in the life of our hero, Jura Zhivago, a doctor and a poet.
Shields, Carol "Jane Austen. A Life" - 2001
Carol Shields managed to write a good account of a life at a time where there were no journalists or paparazzi around to reveal every single step a famous person made.
Westerman, Frank "The Republic of Grain" (NL: De graanrepubliek) - 1999
This book describes life in a Dutch region, in the North of the Netherlands during a tough time. The rise and fall of an area due to nature, politics, decisions made.
Read my original reviews, for the links click on the titles.
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