The Reading Life Review- December 2024

 The Reading Life Review- December 2024

Works Featured in November 

Nonfiction 

The Great Kosher Meat War of 1902: Immigrant Housewives and the Riots That Shook New York City by Scott D. Seligman - 2020- 277 Pages

Novels 

1,  Castle Gripsholm - 1931- by Kurt Tucholsky- 244 Pages- translated from the German by Michael Hofmann -2019

2.  The Most Precious of Cargoes by Jean-Claude Grumberg - 2019 - Translated from French by Fred Wynne - 2020 - 60 pages

3. Green Witch by Alice Hoffman- 2021 - 70 Pages

4.  Legacy by Sybille Bedford- 1956 -385 Pages  - Introduction 2015 by Brenda Wineapple

Short Stories 

1,  "CHRISTMAS NOT JUST ONCE A YEAR" - A Short Story by Heinrich Böll - 1952 (Nicht nur zur Weihnachtszeit") - 7 Pages - included in the anthology A Very German Christmas-

2. "A Man Becomes a Nazi" 10

 Pages-A Short Story by Anna Seghers - 1943 - translated from the German by Margot Bettauer Dembo - 2021

Movies 

1.  Young Frankenstein- Directed by Mel Brooks - 1974 - Starring Gene Wilder, Madeline Kahn, Marty Feldman, Peter Boyle, Cloris Leachman and Teri Garr 

Birth Countries of Authors 

1. Germany- 4

2. USA- 2

3. France - 1

Four featured writers are deceased, all but one we're featured for the first time, 4 writers are men, three women.

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