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My Four-Star Books in 2013

Dec 31, 2013
I rate the books I read. I am not sure how many I read in 2013 since owing to human error I deleted a lot of them. My records indicate 54, which is about 10 fewer than average. I believe, however, that I was able to reconstruct a list of most of the four-star books I read.

Four stars is Highly Recommended; and five stars is “Drop whatever you are doing and read this book NOW!” Here are my eight four-star books from 2013 (alas, no five-star books this year). The ones in boldface were particularly memorable.

Little Dorrit, Charles Dickens
Carry the one, Carol Anshaw
The days of abandonment, Elena Ferrante
Silent house, Orhan Pamuk
Hope: A tragedy, Shalom Auslander
Billy Lynn’s long halftime walk, Ben Fountain
My friend Dahmer, Derf Backderf
Ayala’s angel, Anthony Trollope

Comments and recommendations welcome! Happy reading in 2014!

tags: Books and Libraries

All Together Now

Dec 30, 2013
Maybe next year.

Maybe in 2014 all those voices of dissatisfaction, from the unemployed, the underpaid, and the underrepresented; to the homeless and the hopeless; to Krugman and Stiglitz and Reich; to Mother Jones, Sister Amy, and Brother Cornell; to Scahill and Hedges and Greenwald; to Chomsky and Nader and Ehrenreich; to Snowden and Manning and Assange; to Occupy Wall Street and even to the Tea Party; and finally and firstly to you and me; maybe in 2014 we will get together and begin to forge the New Age of American Democracy.

Without such a new age, 99 percent of our children are doomed to a marginal income even in the professions, to a rampant and unrestrained corporatocracy, to one meteorological disaster after another, to the triumph of tyranny as China assumes command of the world, to a very possible fiery end in nuclear cataclysm.

Everything is broken. The end is near. Let's get to work.
tags: Working Together

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