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#TuesdayBookBlog THE BOY AND THE LAKE by Adam Pelzman. A strong contender among my favourite reads of the year #RBRT

Posted on November 17, 2020 by OlgaNunez

Hi all: Another great discovery thanks to Rosie’s Book Review Team. I loved the cover as soon as I saw it, and the content more than matches it. Oh, this book made me think of fellow blogger and non-fiction author extraordinaire, D.G. Kaye (Debby for her friends), and her non-fiction writing. The Boy and the

Posted in Book review, Book reviews, Tuesday Book Blog 1960s, 20th century American Novel, Brick, coming of age, Goodbye Columbus, Jewish, mystery, Newark, Philip Roth, race riots, RBRT

#TuesdayBookBlog KNIGHT IN PAPER ARMOR by Nicholas Conley (@NicholasConley1) Scary, inspiring, and ultimately life-affirming #RBRT #Sci-fi

Posted on September 29, 2020 by OlgaNunez

Hi all: Today I bring you the review of a book by an author that impressed me with one of his novels a few years back: Knight in Paper Armor by Nicholas Conley Billy Jakobek has always been different. Born with strange and powerful psychic abilities, he has grown up in the laboratories of Thorne

Posted in Book review, Book reviews, Tuesday Book Blog disability, diversity, dystopia, evil, Guatemala, immigration, Jewish, Kabbalah, Orwell, Prejudice, sci-fi, Young Adult

#TuesdayBookBlog #FULL LIGHT OF THE SUN by Clare Clark (@claresclark) (@ViragoBooks) A beautiful novel about history, art, and truth.

Posted on March 5, 2019 by OlgaNunez

Dear all: Although I almost missed the chance to read this novel and participate in the blog tour, I’m pleased I managed. I loved it. In the Full Light of the Sun by Clare Clark A beautiful story about art, history, and what is truly important. In the Full Light of the Sun follows the fortunes

Posted in Blog Tour, Book launch, Book review, Book reviews, Tuesday Book Blog Art fakes, Berlin, Germany, interwar years, Jewish, Nazi, Tuesday Book Blog, Van Gogh, Weimar Republic

#Bookreview HERE I AM by Jonathan Safran Foer. Family, nation, religion, identity and writing with an inimitable style. And authors answer the question, What does your writing look like?

Posted on November 11, 2016 by OlgaNunez

Today I bring you both a new book and a review. I’d been curious about this writer for a while and this is one of the few reviews where I’ve got feedback on the review itself in Amazon (at first somebody complaining about a spoiler, although it is not that kind of novel, and later

Posted in Book reviews Bible, Book review, Family, Identity, Israel, Jewish, Jonathan Safran Foer, Marie Lavender, Relationships, religion, war

Review of Sebastian (The Three Nations Trilogy, Book 2) by Christoph Fischer. A chronicle of turbulent times and memorable characters.

Posted on September 2, 2014 by OlgaNunez

Hi all: I’ve been trying to catch up on some reading, and although some of the review I’m writing are going to be published directly in BTS-e Magazine (I’ll share links to future numbers) I realised there were some books I’d reviewed recently I hadn’t had a chance to share with you yet. Today I

Posted in Reviews Amazon, black market, Christoph Fischer, First World War, Jewish, religion, Sebastian, Three Nations Trilogy, Vienna