Fifty Books Project 2023
Sunday, December 7, 2025

Olav Audunsson: Crossroads by Sigrid Undset

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Now, in a state of calm reflection, Olav listened to the only voice that spoke to him in a language he understood. Here, in this foreign lan...
Sunday, November 30, 2025

Ice Palace by Edna Ferber

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Later Baranof boasted that Chris Storm could pilot a float plane, drive a car, mush a team of nine huskies, paddle a skin boat, handle an ou...
Friday, November 28, 2025

Ada, or Ardor by Vladimir Nabokov

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Revelation can be more perilous than Revolution. Sick minds identified the notion of a Terra planet with that of another world and this ...
Thursday, November 27, 2025

Knots by Nuruddin Farah

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She had never imagined she will see the day when she will appreciate the very thing she has always taken for granted--a clean washroom, the ...
Sunday, November 23, 2025

Owls Do Cry by Janet Frame

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And listening to their father say about Francie, the children felt afraid, as if suddenly the walls of the house would collapse and the roof...
Sunday, November 16, 2025

Three Books About Puerto Rico

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Puerto Rico has been called the oldest colony in the world. While some people contest that statement, Puerto Rico's history is marked by...
Saturday, November 15, 2025

Lili is Crying by Helene Bessette

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He is dragging his wife along the hot road in the shadowless evening. He is shouting: --You'll have to choose, it's me or her. --She...
Thursday, November 6, 2025

Baltasar and Blimunda by Jose Saramago

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Every man follows his own path in search of grace, whatever that grace may be, a simple landscape with the sky overhead, a certain hour of t...
Sunday, November 2, 2025

The Nenoquich by Henry Bean

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Now we are together nearly every day except weekends, which she says are torture, and gradually she arrives earlier and leaves later until i...
Saturday, November 1, 2025

Mouthful of Birds by Samanta Schweblin

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When Sara turned back to us, the bird wasn't there anymore. Her mouth, nose, chin, and both hands were smeared with blood. She smiled sh...
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