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We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda by Philip Gourevitch :
If I stayed more on top of things I would have read this 5 years ago. It's a compelling account of the 1994 Rwandan genocide (erroneously referred to as a "civil war") where 800,000 Tutsi (ethnic minorities) were put to death. I'm a painfully slow reader but I imagine I'll get through this one relatively quckly.
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (tran Frances Steegmuller):
I was a little frightened of this. All the reviews I had read made a big point about Flaubert's obsessive emphasis on technicality (generally not my bag), but so far I have been pleasantly surprised. This translation reads well and is certainly not as dry as I expected.
The TROUSER PRESS GUIDE TO 90S ROCK by Ira Robbins :
I'm slowly working my way through this (just finished Dead C, next up... Dead Can Dance). It's great, but the title is slightly overreaching as it only covers up to about 1996. The entire text is available. I think they are adding new entries online all the time.
Northern Light: One Couples Epic Voyage from the Arctic to the Antarctic by Rolf Bjelke, Deborah Shapiro:
I buy a lot of stuff from the bargain section of 1/2 price books (50 cents). This was one of 'em... lotsa cool pictures and the narrative is moderately interesting.
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