Leon and the Spitting Image (Paperback) by Allen Kurzweil Cindy Xu I think everyone who reads Leon and the Spitting Image can relate to it because it is all about a boy who struggles with his new year of school and with his strict teacher and he thinks is the worst teacher in the world. A young...
I read this book years ago and loved it. Just read it again - still love it. It is such an idiosyncratic piece, so smart and funny and well written, and so filled with a love of ideas, words, objects and people. The level of research required to paint this detailed a picture of pre-Revolutiona...
“We used to stay at—where was it in Zurich?—at the . . .” Cesar struggles for a name I have no trouble remembering. “The Dolder Grand,” he says at last. “A six-star hotel on top of a hill.” It’s a five-star hotel, actually, but I resist the impulse to correct him. “That’s where we’d have meetings...