Monthly Archives: January 2018

Thoughts: Fateless*, by Imre Kertész, translated by Tim Wilkinson

Posted on 3 January 2018 by Dove

This is going to be a hard one for a few reasons. The book is a semi-autobiographical account of the author’s/main character’s experience in concentration camps, so yeah, that’s heavy. And as it’s a translation from Hungarian, a language that … Continue reading →

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Thoughts: Legends of the Fall, by Jim Harrison

Posted on 2 January 2018 by Dove

I’ve definitely seen the film of this, a long time ago, and all I can remember is an expansive film score and a lot of gorgeous scenery, so I wasn’t sure what to expect of the book. All I really … Continue reading →

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Thoughts: The Finest Hours: The True Story of the U.S. Coast Guard’s Most Daring Sea Rescue, by Michael J. Tougias and Casey Sherman

Posted on 1 January 2018 by Dove

Yeah, can non-fiction books have shorter titles, please? It’s like German film titles. Anyway, we saw a lot of films based on true stories last year, and most of them were books first, so here we are.

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