Nina Sankovitch in Nina Sankovitch

Nov 16, 2008

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Very Different Davids (Take One)

The thing about most books of single-author essays is that you cannot just sit down and read through the essays without the writing style and/or topics and/or general take on life, becoming very repetitive. So over the past two days I switched back and forth between the…

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Nina Sankovitch in Nina Sankovitch

Nov 18, 2008

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Julian Barnes on Life and Death

In Nothing to Be Frightened Of (published in 2008), Julian Barnes grapples with death: the death of his parents and his own death, sure to come. In death no one is alone, we are all going to get there, sooner or later, and Barnes is erudite and quietly funny in getting us…

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Nina Sankovitch in Nina Sankovitch

Nov 21, 2008

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How Literature Can Save Your Life: Mister Pip

I just finished Mister Pip (published in 2006)by Lloyd Jones. What a beautiful book, and what tears I am shedding now. The tears threatened throughout the first pages, but those were tears of wonder; what an amazing gift Mr. Watts brought to these…

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Nina Sankovitch in Nina Sankovitch

Nov 25, 2008

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Naguib Mahfouz: Ladder of Success

Naguib Mahfouz wrote about Cairo in the twentieth century, and of the lives of the lower classes that inhabited the ancient alleys and neighborhoods. He wrote about extended families and arranged marriages and illicit lovers, he wrote about personal and public…

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Nina Sankovitch in Nina Sankovitch

Nov 9, 2008

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Edith Wharton’s Touchstone

Yesterday I read The Touchstone (published in 1900) by Edith Wharton. What does touchstone mean? I thought it meant a personal marker, a reminder of who you are. I looked it up and found that it meant “a test or a criterion for determining the quality of a thing” or “a fundamental…

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Nina Sankovitch in Nina Sankovitch

Nov 5, 2008

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Watchmen: Tragically Graphic

Yesterday I read Watchmen, a graphic novel written by Alan Moore and illustrated/lettered by Dave Gibbons in 1986, 1987. This book won numerous awards, including being named one of the 100 best novels by Time magazine. Hun? I don’t get it. The story is sadistic and juvenile…

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Nina Sankovitch in Nina Sankovitch

Nov 2, 2008

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Dickens Does It Better: The Good Thief

Yesterday I read The Good Thief (published 2008) by Hannah Tinti. The story here is a tale to be told around a campfire, a New England fairy tale with orphans and a dwarf and a giant, betrayed lovers and vengeful brothers. The story is fantastic (unbelievable)…

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Nina Sankovitch in Nina Sankovitch

Nov 23, 2008

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A Dark and Stormy Night from Susan Hill

The Man in the Picture (A Ghost Story) by Susan Hill is a wonderful mood story, a period piece, a swift and sure transportation to where the night is dark and stormy, the chill is inside as well as out, and evil holds sway. I was shivering in my boots and I…

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Nina Sankovitch in Nina Sankovitch

Nov 29, 2008

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Watership Down: Rabbits in the Mirror

I’ve never much liked anthropomorphic animal novels but I really enjoyed readingWatership Down by Richard Adams yesterday. It is a long book but I had a lazy day, the day after having seventeen people here for Thanksgiving dinner, and I spend it ensconced in a…

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Nina Sankovitch in Nina Sankovitch

Nov 22, 2008

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The Beauty of The Yellow Leaves

Yesterday I read The Yellow Leaves, a collection of memoir pieces, essays and poems, by Frederick Buechner. I have never read any of his work before but I loved the title The Yellow Leaves and so I dove in.

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These were the top 10 stories published by Nina Sankovitch in November of 2008. You can also dive into daily archives for November of 2008 by using the calendar at the top of this page.