| 1. |  | Those Who Save Us
from Adult
Customer Review:
This book is unusual for a Holocaust book, because none of the protagonists are wholly good or entirely bad. The villain is capable of love, and the female lead character is unable to love. Good men are damaged goods, and even the innocent next generation is disabled. It definitely is worth reading. | 4.5 / 5.0
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| 2. |  | Away: A Novel
from Random House Trade Paperbacks
Price: $11.20
Customer Review:
I began reading this book with high hopes but somewhere after Lillian decides to leave the Yiddish theater and to return to Siberia, I began to sense that this adventure story was a hoax. I followed Lillian through each separate adventure feeling as if I were watching a serialized potboiler. I... more info | 3.5 / 5.0
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| 3. |  | Everything Is Illuminated: A Novel
from Harper Perennial
Price: $8.00
Customer Review:
Regarding Everything is Illuminated, I won't go into specifics about plot and message, because this is one of those rare novels which defies description and which ends up being so much more than the sum of its parts. If I tried to abbreviate here the story or meaning, I'd belittle the book; it's one... more info | 4.5 / 5.0
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| 4. |  | The Book of Dahlia: A Novel
from Free Press
Price: $16.79
Customer Review:
In this book, we meet the heroine Dahlia, after a brief glimpse of her daily and seemingly wasteful and over-indulgent lifestyle. After the diagnosis of her deadly brain tumor, Dahlia takes us on a journey through her past. Despite being spoiled and over-indulged and lazy, it turns out Dahlia has... more info | 4.5 / 5.0
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| 5. |  | Bread Givers
from Persea Books
Customer Review:
I read this book for my English class in college. It helped me know more about American culture in the early of 20th century | 4.5 / 5.0
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| 6. |  | The Saturday Wife
from St. Martin's Griffin
Price: $11.16
Customer Review:
The Saturday Wife is another in a series of less than insightful novels concerning life as a rebbizin. The dialogue reads as rather light-headed as opposed to light-hearted. | 3.5 / 5.0
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| 7. |  | Beware of God: Stories
from Simon & Schuster
Price: $11.05
Customer Review:
This book, like Auslander's other work, suffers from what appears to be his own self-hatred and complete disgust with all things Jewish. Whenever I read anything by him, I find that his bitterness, apparently resulting from his resentment over the way he was raised, ruins his attempts at humor.... more info | 4.5 / 5.0
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| 8. |  | Rashi's Daughters, Book II: Miriam: A Novel of Love and the Talmud in Medieval France
from Plume
Price: $9.15
Customer Review:
Couldn't put the first two books down. Shared them with my 93 year old Aunt Bess and now she keeps pestering me for the 3rd daughter's book!
Thank you Maggie.
Mj | 4.0 / 5.0
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| 9. |  | Kabbalah: A Love Story
from Broadway
Price: $9.56
Customer Review:
Kabbalah: A Love Story:
Novel Mystical Approach and Mystical Novel
Reviewed by Arthur L. Finkle
I have used this gem in a serous study group on mysticism. What is arcane, Kushner explains simply. Like the Zohar, its explanation involves becoming part of the cosmos; not looking from... more info | 5.0 / 5.0
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| 10. |  | Bearing the Body: A Novel
from Picador
Price: $11.20
Customer Review:
It took me awhile to get into "Bearing the Body". The main characters initially were so dysfunctional and unsympathetic that I almost gave up, but I'm glad I stuck with it. The story opens just after Sol, a Holocaust survivor tormented by the past, and his younger son Nathan have learned of the... more info | 3.0 / 5.0
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