Books

Books I've read

Kavelier and Clay

elevator pitch- A story of escape from Prague before the war, guilt at being the family member that got away, of cousins who share their unique talents to create art, get ripped off of their ideas, one realizing he can feel love with another man, the other realizing that he can feel love instead of perpetual grief about his families loss in the holocaust. The desire for revenge and the abhorrance of killing. Societies oppression of comic books and homosexuality. Love and family, and being a different kind of kid.

white boy shuffle

told in the first person, I am the 7th son of the seventh son , no not really. -> family history. so white mom moves them back to the ghetto -> finds friend reading Othello in class, "Psycho Loco has planned to steal the safe for nine years in retribution for the department store's having moved a race-car set the young Psycho intended to steal on the day he was to steal...""He visits a wealthy, African American Harvard graduate in his large home, which overlooks Hillside, realizing that years earlier he and his Holligan friends had stolen a security sign out of the front lawn and destroyed the man's RV."

house of sand and fog

trying to reclaim a home lost in forclosure bought by Iranian immigrants.

Swing Time by Zadie Smith

of the type of novel where the characters are purposely unsympathetic; the narrator her mother Tracey, Aimee, Lamma, Hawa they are all not loved by the reader, each represnting a part of human character. Fern, arguably the only heroic character, betrays bhis friend by ratting her out to Aimee.

Beta Ball by Eric Malinowski

Not so muc "How Silicon Valley and Science Built One of the Greatest Basketball Teams in History" more a retelling of playoff game accounts