'The Power Broker' lived up to the hype as one of the great political biographies. Moses is
practically unknown over here, I'd be interested to find out what level of
awareness there is about him in the US these days. 1000 pages of how to attain
power, how to use it, how it corrupts and the hubristic fall of an imperial
court.
'The Loved One'
slipped by, made me smile a few times, but nothing to justfy its billing as one
of the great 20th century comic novels. Not a patch on Scoop.
I should have read
'Raising Girls' a long time ago. Being a self-help manual, there's plenty of
truisms, common-sense and anecdotes to support an argument, but there's enough
in there to make you stop and think about how you behave towards young girls. I
don't always deal well with Libby when she is refusing to comply with requests,
and it's a good reminder that she responds well to love and encouragement
rather than being summarily dismissed to her room.
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