[stylist] Culture Book Recommendations

[Jacobson, Shawn D]

Thanks.

I just ordered "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok.

Shawn

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Subject: Re: [stylist] Culture Book Recommendations

If you are on Bookshare look for books by Mary Renault or Jo Walton or Chaim Potok. The first deals with ancient Greek themes, the second has books on many different culures. The third has a lot of books with jewish themes. Many of their books are also available from NLS.

John

On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 08:05:51AM -0400, Jamie Allison via stylist wrote:
> Vejas,
> You may not remember me but I think we met at writers' division last 
> year at nationals. I am glad you decided to attend LCB. Everyone that 
> I know who has attended has found the training and experience 
> extremely valuable to them and come out of it totally prepared for 
> life. I also like to do some reading as it relates to cultural 
> context. I read a book some months ago about an Alaskan native who was 
> a teenager, had not made good choices and was in trouble with the 
> police and how he came to accept his heritage. For the life of me I 
> can't remember the title of the book! It was on BARD though. I 
> wouldn't recommend it for someone much younger than you because of 
> some of the language and situations this fellow gets into, but the 
> author's style of writing just pulls you right in and the resolution 
> of this young man's situation is so satisfying at the end. It may be 
> that someone else on-list has read the same one and can remember better than me the title. Either way I'm pretty sure you'll get some good recommendations.
> 
> On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 10:45 PM, Vejas Vasiliauskas via stylist < 
> stylist at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> > Hi All,
> > I know it's been a while.  I have been busy with my life at LCB.
> > I am looking for good book recommendations.  I really like reading 
> > about other cultures, so would like to read something that either 
> > takes place in another country, or is centered around a culture 
> > (like life as an immigrant or something like that).
> > Thanks.
> > Vejas
> >
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