by andrewkooman on December 29, 2010
I had a lot to choose from. And certainly the titles I read weren’t all published in 2010; most of the books that made it on the list weren’t either. Perhaps it means I’m behind the times, or that books just have a long shelf life. I wanted to select a work by RS Thomas [...]
by andrewkooman on January 26, 2010
R.E.A.D. T.H.I.S. B.O.O.K. Sold is the story of a young Nepali girl named Lakshmi, sold by her step-father to a brothel in India. Told in short vignettes, the book is poetic, descriptive, sparse, beautiful, tragic, and breaks the heart. It’s almost impossible to put down. We need more stories like it, read by more and [...]