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Rhapsody in Books

Rhapsody in Books

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Book reviews, book discussions, significant dates in history

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  • Yams Versus Sweet Potatoes

    Posted on Wednesday November 25th, 2009 at 07:57 in food, holiday

    The New York Times weighs in this morning on the important question of whether yams and sweet potatoes are interchangeable. It explains the difference: Sweet potatoes are New World tubers [a member of the Morning Glory family] that were adopted by e...

  • Review of Kristin Lavransdatter, Volume II: The Wife, by Sigrid Undset and translated by Tiina Nunnally

    Posted on Tuesday November 24th, 2009 at 05:04 in book review, readalong

    I signed up for the Kristin Lavransdatter Readalong, sponsored by Richard of Caravana de Recuerdos and Emily from Evening All Afternoon. As Emily pointed out, “we’ll be reading the Tina Nunnally translation, which won the PEN/Book-of-the...

  • Moby Dick Mondays – Week 2

    Posted on Monday November 23rd, 2009 at 05:04 in challenge, readalong

    Ti of the blog Book Chatter is sponsoring a challenge/readalong to read the classic Moby Dick. On Mondays, we’ll be posting about our progress. I am listening to the unabridged audiodisks for this book, which my husband listened to and loved ...

  • Sunday Salon – Review of Children of Dust: A Memoir of Pakistan by Ali Eteraz

    Posted on Sunday November 22nd, 2009 at 05:04 in book review, sunday salon

    Ali Eteraz’s coming of age memoir takes us from his upbringing under conservative Islam in Pakistan, to his education in philosophy and postmodernism in the West, to his epiphany about who he is when he is back in the Muslim world. Eteraz has no...

  • Review of “Definitely Dead” by Charlaine Harris

    Posted on Saturday November 21st, 2009 at 05:04 in book review

    Don’t despair, faithful blog readers! I’m almost done with this series! This review does not have spoilers, but Book Six in the Sookie Stackhouse romance-mystery-vampire series definitely does: it is full of revelations about the cha...

  • Thankfully Reading Weekend

    Posted on Friday November 20th, 2009 at 05:04 in challenge

    Since we have no travel plans for Thanksgiving, I decided to join in on the “Thankfully Reading Weekend” hosted by Jenn at Jenn’s Bookshelves. Here’s how it works, from the post on Jenn’s blog: When: Friday, November 27...

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