Books and Book Review links

About Books - Bodice-rippers with braces - Broadsheet - Salon.com, July 18, 2009

http://www.salon.com:80/mwt/broadsheet/feature/2009/07/17/harleteen/index.html?source=newsletter

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Yann Martel, ‘Life of Pi’ Author, Said to Get $3 Million for Holocaust Allegory - NYTimes.com, July 18, 2009
http://www.nytimes.com:80/2009/07/18/books/18martel.html?th&emc=th

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Book Review: “Stormy Weather: The Life of Lena Horne” by James Gavin.

"Inside her, there were two Lena Hornes: the one who fiercely asserted herself, and the one who belittled and berated herself. ...There is good reason for James Gavin’s “Stormy Weather: The Life of Lena Horne” to take up — when you count the notes, bibliography, discography, filmography and index — nearly 600 pages. This Lena (or these Lenas), born in 1917 and still hanging in, has had a life so rich in ups and downs as to make page after page eventful and suspenseful..." - says James Gavin in this biography of Lena Horne in New York Times book review by John Simon.

Read more -

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/19/books/review/Simon-t.html?_r=1&8bu&emc=bua2

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Book Review - 'Dangerous Games - The Uses and Abuses of History,' by Margaret MacMillan - Review - NYTimes.com

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/19/books/review/Kennedy-t.html?_r=1&8bu&emc=bua2

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Book Review - 'Myths, Illusions, and Peace - Finding a New Direction for America in The Middle East,' by Dennis Ross and David Makovsky - Review - NYTimes.com
http://www.nytimes.com:80/2009/07/19/books/review/LeBor-t.html?8bu&emc=bua2

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Essay - In Praise of Literary Escorts By JOE QUEENAN, NYTimes, Sunday Book Review section. (July 17, 2009)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/19/books/review/Queenan-t.html?_r=1&8bu&emc=bub2