Tag: book recommendation, good reads, literacy matters, Randy Kraft reads, summer book reading
Randy Kraft’s OC Book Blog: Pairings: Two by Ishiguro
Kazuo Ishiguro, a Nobel and Pulitzer prize-winner, revered by fellow writers and readers, recently published a novel that seems, on the...
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...
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...
Randy Kraft’s OC Book Blog: “Transcendent Kingdom” by Yaa Gyasi
Yaa Gyasi’s debut novel, Homegoing, was a hard-hitting study of four generations of African women descending from a slave ship. It moved...
Randy Kraft’s OC Book Blog: “Fresh Water for Flowers” by Valerie Perrin | Translation by Hildegarde Serle
How wonderful to discover a new voice—not new in Europe, but to us. Valerie Perrin is a French screenwriter and photographer, also an...
