More mini-reviews!
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My desk is inundated with books from 3 different libraries and my own shelves. I'm going to have to continue with the mini-reviews! Fathers and Sons , by Ivan Turgenev -- I enjoyed this so much, but I finished it right when I lost energy to blog. Now all the impressions are dim. But here we have two young men, Arkady and his good friend Bazarov. Bazarov has been a controversial figure since the day he stepped on to the page; he's a Nihilist who claims to believe in nothing. He wants to smash all of society, clear the ground so that a new and better world can be built from scratch, but he has little to say about what that world should look like. Sort of proto-communist and scientific--Bazarov likes science, though not very much. Then he falls in love, which he can't deal with at all. Turgenev is showing us the generation gap he experienced. I loved it, but I can't tell you too much about it in a mini-review. Shadow on the Mountain , by Margi Preus -- This