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Book Rec’s from the Stars
18Apr08
At the “Literary Fiction: A Place for Faith?” panel this morning, the discussants offered these book recommendations:
Ingrid Hill: Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro; Saturday, Ian McEwan
Beena Kamlani: Wolf Totem, Jiang Rong
Jana Reiss: After This, Alice McDermott; The Ladies’ Auxillary, Tova Mirvis
Vinita Hampton Wright: A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini; Birds Without Wings, Louis de [...]
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At 10:30 this morning local high school students gathered to ask questions of Yann Martel, author of (the apparently popular high school English text) Life of Pi.
Many questions focused earnestly on details from the book — ex. “What is the significance of the meerkat?” But a particularly interesting question came towards the end of [...]
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Tags: agnosticism, meerkat, Yann Martel
