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Just finished Yosl Rakover talks to God
A very interesting little book. It is in 2 parts the first is a work of fiction, written by Zvi Kolitz, about the life of a Jewish man in the ghetto of Warsaw, during world war 2. It confronts the violence he both witnessed and perpetrated, and his love hate relationship with his god. It was written originally in yiddish in 1946, which explains the rawness of it, and also explains the second part of the book which, which is the true story of how, either willfully or incidently the testament of Yosl Rakover was passed off as a true story and subsequently took on a life of it's own.
I love Bill Bryson. I think you've mentioned liking him before. If you haven't already, you should get Barbara Holland's Hail to the Chiefs. I think you'd like it.I am currently reading two books - both of them pretty hilarious.
The first is "In A Sunburned Country" by Bill Bryson. It's about Australia. It's his usual really funny stuff, but also as usual interspersed with lots of cool facts. I've caught myself laughing out loud several times.
I love Bill Bryson. I think you've mentioned liking him before. If you haven't already, you should get Barbara Holland's Hail to the Chiefs. I think you'd like it.
I'm reading
Richard Restak, M.D., Mozart's Brain and the Fighter Pilot: Unleashing Your Brain's Potential.
The only other book of hers that I've read is Endangered Pleasures: In Defense of Naps, Bacon, Martinis, Profanity, and Other Indulgences, which I liked. But based on those two I'd take a chance on anything she wrote.Dang it, the Barbara Holland book you recommended isn't available on my Kindle. However, several of her books are. I'm considering two of them - "Gentlemen's Blood" (about dueling) and "The Joy of Drinking."
Have you read either of those before? If so - do you have a favorite or another of her books to recommend?
Hardcore Zen by Brad Warner
Easy read too, so I actually finished it. Still have a lot of books I've been meaning to finish lying around.I love that book.