1969

The year of 1969 CE.

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Crime Novels: Thrillers from the 1960s Part 2

Chester Himes, Evan Hunter, Margaret Millar, Patricia Highsmith
Contemporary American Crime Noir

As the 1960s began to fade into the 1970s, noir took a fascinating and complex turn. It wasn’t enough to just be about a crime — now it was about being relevant to the current moment.

Fat City

Leonard Gardner
Contemporary American Literature

While Tully’s and Munger’s lives intersect time and again and one or the other often tries to connect, they never quite manage to.

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Maya Angelou
Contemporary American Memoir

he doesn’t shy away from what happened to her, but neither does she use it to shock the reader. Instead, she writes of the horror with blunt honesty, and brutality tempered with careful sentence level consideration and a language that is powerful, yet never gratuitous.

Travels With My Aunt

Graham Greene
Contemporary UK Literature

I didn’t plan on not being able to finish this book — but I didn’t finish. So this unreview is part of the journey, a bump on the literary road trip.

The Butterfly Plague

Timothy Findley
Contemporary Canadian Literature

Christmas shopping for our household would not be complete without at least one trip to the bookstore. Multiple bookstores. Fanfare Books is where I first discovered the work of Timothy Findley, who spent his final years in this town and was a dedicated friend of the store. This is a review of The Butterfly Plague.