My Head Is Full of Books: Six Degrees of Separation --- Starting with KAIROS

"Outside a dog a book is man's best friend, inside a dog it is too dark to read!" -Groucho Marx========="The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid." -Jane Austen========="I don’t believe in the kind of magic in my books. But I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book."-JK Rowling========"I spend a lot of time reading." -Bill Gates=========“Ahhh. Bed, book, kitten, sandwich. All one needed in life, really.” -Jacqueline Kelly=========

Saturday, July 6, 2024

Six Degrees of Separation --- Starting with KAIROS

Six Degrees of Separation

We Start With

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Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck.
I hadn't even heard of this book until it showed up on the 6-Degrees list this week. I had to do a little research about it. I learned it was written in German and is set in Berlin before the Berlin Wall came down. I was curious about the title: Kairos. I learned that "kairos" is an ancient greek word, often used in the Bible. It means timeliness or a time which requires interpretation or conversations among people; a moment in time when ordinary people may be called upon to do extraordinary things.
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Brotherless Night by V.V. Ganeshananthan
Sashi lives in Sri Lanka with her parents and four brothers. She wants to study to become a doctor but the moment asks a lot from Sashi and her family as civil war breaks out and she is asked to do more than she could ever have imagined she could do to save her family and secure freedom for her people.
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The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich
A novel based on the extraordinary life of Louise Erdrich’s grandfather who worked as a night watchman and carried the fight against Native dispossession from rural North Dakota all the way to Washington, D.C. to speak before Congress.

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Fire Keeper's Daughter by Angeline Bouley
The teen protagonist in this mystery set on a Native Reservation in Minnesota acts with dignity while honoring her Ojibwe traditions.
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I Cheerfully Refuse by Leif Enger
Set in not-too-distant America in the state of Minnesota. Rainy, the story's lovable protagonist, endures terrible conditions and persists working toward his goal of finding a place to make a better life.
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Inland by Tea Obreht
This is a stunning tale of perseverance where Nora waits for her husband to return with life-giving water and her son is frightened by a magical beast no one expects to see in the Arizona territory of the 1880s -- a camel.
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West With Giraffes by Lynda Rutledge
Another novel inspired by the incredible true story, this one is of two giraffes, very unexpected animals, who made headlines and won the hearts of Depression-era America.

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-Anne