Book Review: People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks

Book #61 of 2016: People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks The Sarajevo Haggadah is a real book, a 500-year-old illustrated manuscript depicting scenes from the Jewish Passover saga. People of the Book is a beautiful work of historical fiction, tracing a possible history of the Haggadah back through the centuries with a series of …

Book Review: The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker

Book #52 of 2015: The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker I wasn’t sold at first, but I ended up really liking this story about two mythical beings in nineteenth-century New York. It definitely got better as it went along – the beginning is brimming with characters that don’t have a clear relation to …

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