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Randy Kraft’s OC Book Blog: Pairings—Jhumpa Lahiri and Natalia Ginzburg
After I read Whereabouts, I picked up Happiness, As Such, by Ginzburg, a very different novel and yet, the tone, the observational...
OC Book Blog: 2021—Post-Pandemic Pairs
I am discovering novels that seem to go together – not so much in content, rather in style or thematic. ...
Randy Kraft’s OC Book Blog: “To Be a Man” by Nicole Krauss
Nicole Krauss returns to a common theme: what is at the heart of a relationship for women, and, in gazing into that psyche, she reflects as...
Randy Kraft’s OC Book Blog: “Jack” by Marilynne Robinson
Jack is best read in a quiet space. Slowly. Pensively. Because it is a quiet novel, told almost in a whisper. An interior narrative by one...
Randy Kraft’s OC Book Blog: “A Burning” by Megha Mujumdar
This is one of the most hard to put down novels I’ve read, and that’s saying something, considering all the good fiction that’s been...