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Kate’s 2¢: “The waters: A Novel” by Bonnie Jo Campbell
“The waters: A Novel” by Bonnie Jo Campbell
I really enjoyed the intricacies of this story, ably read by Lili Taylor. The family dynamics of this family will resonate with many a reader.
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Bonnie Jo Campbell (born September 14, 1962 in Kalamazoo, Michigan) is an American novelist and short story writer. Her most recent work is The Waters, published with W.W. Norton and Company.
Life and work[edit]
Campbell attended Comstock High School (from which she graduated in 1980), and received a B.A. in philosophy from the University of Chicago in 1984. From Western Michigan University, she received an MA in mathematics in 1995 and an MFA in creative writing in 1998. She has traveled with the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus, and has organized adventure bicycle tours in Eastern Europe and Russia.[1]
Campbell teaches fiction at Pacific University in Forest Grove, Oregon, in the low-residency MFA program.[2] Campbell lives outside Kalamazoo, Michigan, with her husband, Christopher Magson. [3]
From NLS/BARD/LOC:
The waters: a novel DB119489
Campbell, Bonnie Jo. Reading time: 14 hours, 43 minutes.
Read by Lili Taylor.
Human Relations
Family
“On an island in the Great Massasauga Swamp an area known as “The Waters” to the residents of nearby Whiteheart, Michigan herbalist and eccentric Hermine “Herself” Zook has healed the local women of their ailments for generations. As stubborn as her tonics are powerful, Herself inspires reverence and fear in the people of Whiteheart, and even in her own three estranged daughters. The youngest the beautiful, inscrutable, and lazy Rose Thorn has left her own daughter, eleven-year-old Dorothy “Donkey” Zook, to grow up wild. Donkey spends her days searching for truths in the lush landscape and in her math books, waiting for her wayward mother and longing for a father, unaware that family secrets, passionate love, and violent men will flood through the swamp and upend her idyllic childhood. Rage simmers below the surface of this divided community, and those on both sides of the divide have closed their doors against the enemy. The only bridge across the waters is Rose Thorn.” — Provided by publisher. Unrated. Commercial audiobook.
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Kate’s 2¢: “The Book of Dreams”, by Nina George translated by Simon Pare“The Book of Dreams” by Nina George
“The Book of Dreams”, by Nina George
translated by Simon Pare
“The Book of Dreams” by Nina George
Xalvador Tin-Bradbury did a good job of narrating this story. The intricacies of the various relationships were fascinating. The son is a remarkable young man. I actually like the ending.
George writes also under three pen names. She writes non-fiction about issues of love, sexuality and eroticism, under the pseudonym Anne West. Under her married name Nina Kramer she wrote a thriller in 2008. She also wrote detective novels with her husband and co-writer Jo Kramer, their pseudonym being Jean Bagnol.
In 2012 and 2013 she won the DeLiA and the Glauser Prize. Her first bestselling novel was The Little Paris Bookshop (first published in German as Das Lavendelzimmer on May 2, 2013). She moved to Concarneau in France, where she now lives with her husband Jo Kramer.
George is a member of the administrative board of the Collective Management Organisation VG Wort. She is chairwoman of the VG-Wort ‘e-Book’ working group.[2]
Life and work
Nina George was born in Bielefeld. She dropped out of school before finishing high school and worked in various catering establishments from the age of fourteen. She began in 1993 writing as a freelance journalist and columnist for magazines like Cosmopolitan, Penthouse, TV Movie, and Frau im Trend. In 1997, she wrote the book Good girls do it in bed, bad ones everywhere under the pseudonym Anne West. She lived in Hamburg. In 2008, she appeared under the name Nina Kramer in ‘Thriller A Life Without Me’ about women’s reproductive health.
George is Member to PEN, Das Syndikat (association of German-language crime writers), the Association of German Authors (VS), the Hamburg Authors’ Association (HAV), BücherFrauen (Women in Publishing), the IACW/AIEP (International Association of Crime Writers), the GEDOK (Association of female artists in Germany), PRO QUOTE and Lean In. Nina George sits on the board of the Three Seas Writers’ and Translators’ Council (TSWTC), whose members come from 16 different countries.
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Simon Pare Date of birth: 25 July 1972 Im Dörfli 13, 8615 Freudwil, Switzerland Nationality: British Tel. (+41) (0)44 940 2906 Mob. (+41) (0)77 485 2049 Email: mail@simonpare.net Literary translator (French and German into English) Member of the Society of Authors and the Translators’ Association (UK)
Translator, French, German. Simon Pare is British, lives in Paris and translates literature, non-fiction and film from German and French. His published translations include works by the Austrian author Christoph …
FromNLS/BARD/LOC:
The book of dreams DB94562
George, Nina; Pare, Simon. Reading time: 10 hours, 12 minutes.
Read by Xalvador Tin-Bradbury.
Human Relations
Psychological Fiction
On the way to see his son Sam for the first time in years, Henri is involved in an accident and winds up in a coma. Thirteen-year-old Sam and Henri’s former lover, Eddie, wait by his bedside while Henri floats in dreams. Translated from the 2016 original German. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2019.
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