Compiled from EIN Newsletters (7/07 – 12/07)
NEW BOOKS FOR LLI COURSES
The Assault on Reason, by Al Gore
The Reagan Diaries, by Ronald Reagan
Einstein: His Life and Universe, by Walter Isaacson
God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything, by Christopher
Hitchens
Presidential Courage: Brave Leaders and How They Changed America
1789-1989, by Michael Beschloss
Members of the McGill ILR in Montreal are, according to their
most recent newsletter, reading the following books:
The Book of Longing, by Leonard Cohen - A delightful collection
of previously unpublished poems and various other writings, enhanced
by playful and provocative drawings by the author.
Empire, by Niall Ferguson. Ferguson, who is generally acknowledged
to be the leader of the current crop of British historians, subtitles
his book, The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons
for Global Power. He examines the costs and consequences, both good
and bad, of British imperialism.
The Victorian House, by Judith Flanders – A fascinating
upstairs downstairs, room by room guide to the typical upper middle
class Victorian house. Wonderful insights into Victorian life.
London: A Short History, by A.N. Wilson. Not to be missed
for those planning a trip to London. It has been said of Wilson that
he’s incapable of writing a dull sentence.
Thanks to the OMNILORE program at California State University
Dominquez Hills for these fiction suggestions that would make great
reading for a LLI book club.
Q&A, by Vikas Swarup, an Indian diplomat who has served
in Turkey, Great Britain, Ethiopia and the U.S. A beguiling blend
of high comedy, drama and romance in which humanity is revealed in
all of its squalor and glory.
One Last Look, by Susanna Moore is a story taken from an
actual journal and diaries and tells of a man who is appointed Governor
General of India in 1836, the beginning of the end of English imperialism.
Widow of the South, by Robert Hicks. Taking place in Tennessee
during the Civil War Battle of Franklin, the novel centers on a bitter,
reclusive woman who, because of the battle and its consequences, changes
her outlook.
My Jim, by Nancy Rawles, is the story of the runaway slave
in Twain’s Huckleberry Finn. The story is told from the perspective
of Jim’s wife.
Thanks to the OMNILORE program at California State University
Dominquez Hills for these fiction suggestions that would make great
reading for a LLI book club.
The Prodigal Spy, by Joseph Kanon. Nine year old Nick Kotlar’s
life is turned upside down when his father is accused of being a communist
spy during the McCarthy hearings.
Travels in the Scriptorium, by Paul Auster is an offbeat
fabulist story of a man who wakes up in a room with no memory of who
he is or how he got there.
Last Days of Summer, by Steve Kluger, is a baseball story
that begins in 1936 and tells the story of the correspondence between
a 12 year-old boy and his baseball hero.
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