by Colette Here a copy from the online New York Times, retrieved on Nov 17th 2013:“Mitsou,” the story of a love of a little music-hall girl for a nameless lieutenant,…
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by John Le Carre Instead of my own thoughts here is the plot summary from wikipedia, retrieved on Nov 17th 2013:The book tells the story of Ted Mundy, a Pakistani-born…
by J. Keith Murnighan The lesson is rather: make the organization work. If you do not have to do anything, your processes work and you have good people as leaders.…
by Julio Villanueva Chang Julio Villanueva Chang is a Peruvian journalist. The book is a collection of chronicles or essays on people the author is interested in. It is a…
by Philip Roth Since I forgot that I had read the book here a copy from amazon, retrieved Nov 17th 2013: “With the lover everyday life recedes,” Roth writes—and exhibiting…
by Rafael Chirbes The short summary: a book about the immobility bubble in Spain. But not about the political mechanisms behind it, it is more what effect had the attached…
by Salman Rushdie Even if Rushdie doesn’t want to call that fictitious land Pakistan – the similarities are too obvious. Moreover, the two main antagonists of the novel – Iskander…
by William Lithgow Written in the first half of the 17th century it is refreshingly incompatible with today’s political correctness. You will laugh a lot about Lithgow’s rigorous, sometimes misinformed…
by Edward Abbey I needed to read a book about the South-West of the United States since I have spent so much time in Tucson on various business trips. Lately…
by Nicholas Nassim Taleb My relation with the book is ambiguous: on one hand I love it since it describes very eloquently so many things in believe in, on the…