Devourer of Books

My Father’s Paradise by Ariel Sabar
On sale September 16, 2008
“My Father’s Paradise” was my May LibraryThing Early Reviewers book and it ranks with “The 19th Wife” as one of the most outstanding books I’ve gotten from the program. This is a refreshingly honest and candid book that focuses in on a story many people [...]

Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Jeffrey Eugenides’ “Middlesex” is another beautifully written book.  ‘Cal’ Stephanides, the narrator, is the intersex grandchild of Greek immigrants.  This was our book for book club this month, and all of us expected that the entire book would basically be about Calliope/Cal dealing with the switch from female to male.  Instead, the [...]

Stealing Buddha’s Dinner is a memoir by Bich Minh Nguyen, teacher of Asian American literature, creative nonfiction, and fiction at Purdue University. Nguyen’s father, sister, grandmother, and uncles left Vietnam the night before the fall of Saigon. After spending some time in the Philippines, the received a sponsor in Grand Rapids, MI to come to [...]