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Me the People by Kevin Bleyer; Random House, 317 pages ($26). “We have made a terrible mistake,” writes Kevin Bleyer, a fellow who’s won gold statues for being a writer on “The Daily Show” and sometimes salts presidential speeches. “And by the we I mean you . . . As a citizen of the United States, you have put your faith in a four-page document written by farmers, scrawled on animal skin, disseminated more than two centuries ago, conceived in desperation in the aftermath of war, composed in the language of the country it was intended to spurn, and . . ., scribbled in handwriting with the quill of a goose.”
Indulge in Tudor envy with ‘Bring Up the Bodies’
Diabolical. Violent. Fascinating. The story of the throne-usurping Tudors has been seducing people for almost five centuries.
In rediscovered treasure, a woman ahead of her time
Occasionally in reading, one comes across a book that seems so wholecloth—so complete, so utterly of its time and place — that it causes amazement.
Patterson’s disquieting new plot is no walk on the beach
Richard North Patterson is never easy. Sure, you can take his novels to the beach, but they’re no mindless, easy reads. They often confront huge international political issues. Even his less ambitious novels have a disquieting, psychological intensity to them.
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Poetry and Literature Calendar
A list of readings and workshops (May 20 -26) TODAY, 3p.m.: Book talk with Tewodros (Teddy) Fekadu, author of “No One’s Son” (Leapfrog Press, 2012), a memoir of his experiences growing up in the midst of the Ethiopian-Eritrean civil war, including his abandonment by his family, escape from famine and war, life in orphanages, and on the streets of Addis Ababa. Spanning five countries and three continents, including three years in Japanese detention centers, the book recounts the author’s ultimately successful immigration to Australia, and his development as a writer and a human rights advocate. Frank Merriweather Library, 1324 Jefferson Ave. MONDAY, 6:30 p.m.: Book talk with Tewodros (Teddy) Fekadu, author of the memoir “No One’s Son” (Leapfrog Press, 2012). Niagara Branch Library, 280 Porter Ave.
First Date With My Second Daughter
Heading east over the Pacific, our legs bound by right angles, we did not speak. Tilted seats folding back knees, I could not sleep, red eye, or recline.
Book Review
Louis Begley returns, with a love story about Schmidt
"Schmidt Steps Back" is a love story, in which Albert Schmidt (portrayed by Jack Nicholson in a movie based on a previous book) wins, then loses, then tries to win back the widow of a colleague at the firm from which he took early retirement.
Wildly popular ‘Grey’ trilogy is 100 shades of awful
I was frankly afraid to review the controversial yet staggeringly popular “Fifty Shades of Grey” S&M-erotica trilogy. Really afraid.
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A list of readings and workshops (May 13 -19)
Books in brief
YOUNG ADULT Wonder Show by Hannah Barnaby; Houghton Mifflin Books, 267 pages ($16.99) Ages 12 and up.
What My Mother Remembers
A lid to a plastic container I left in her kitchen at Thanksgiving A story about a musician who spent the night in a yama* with a wolf—playing his violin
Christie amuses with dig chronicle
Agatha Christie warned the reader not to expect too much out of her story of life on an archaeological dig. “This is not a profound book,” Christie writes. “It will give you no interesting sidelights on archaeology, there will be no beautiful descriptions of scenery, no treating of economic problems, no racial reflections, no history.
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Best bets:
- Wed 5/23: Jazz vocalist Jane Monheit
- Thu 5/24: North Sea Gas
- Fri 5/25: An Evening of Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake and Serenade
- Sat 5/26: Rich Little
- Sat 5/26: Mariachi El Bronx
- Sat 5/26: Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra: Pops Showstoppers
- Sat 5/26: Rich Little
- Sun 5/27: The B-52s
- Wed 5/30: Heybale
- Fri 6/1: WYRK Taste of Country
- Fri 6/1: Alan Doyle
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