Roger Brunyate
Roger Brunyate was born in Northern Ireland in 1940, educated in England, earning degrees from Cambridge in English and Art History, teaching the latter at the University of Glasgow for five years. But, as a lifelong amateur musician, he moved into professional opera in 1968 (as a stage director), and worked in Europe before emigrating to the US in 1972. Since 1980, he has been professor of Opera at the Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore MD. Roger is active as a writer of opera libretti, translations, holiday pantomimes, and occasional journalism.
Roger got back to sustained serious reading in 2003, for the first time since college, writing about many of the books on Amazon as a means of reflection. Looking back on over 400 such reviews, if there is one thing he looks for in literature more than any other, it is its power to ask moral questions.
Roger has reviewed the following for MostlyFiction:
2014
- Love and Treasure by Ayelet Waldman (3-31-14)
- Archangel by Andrea Barrett (3-2-14)
- A Guide for the Perplexed by Dara Horn (2-18-14)
- Levels of Life by Julian Barnes (2-10-14)
- Wake by Anna Hope (2-2-14)
- Fallen Land by Patrick Flanery (1-23-14)
- Instructions for a Heat Wave by Maggie O’Farrell (1-16-14)
- Andrew’s Brain by E.L. Doctorow (1-9-14)
2013
- The Professor of Truth by James Robertson (12-28-13)
- Eleven Days by Lea Carpenter (12-11-13)
2011 (Top Picks)
- The Fifth Women by Henning Mankell (12-19-11)
- The Third Reich by Robert Bolaño (11-22-11)
- Fantastic Women: 18 Tales of the Surreal and the Sublime from Tin House edited by Rob Spillman (10-19-11)
- Cain by José Saramago (10-4-11)
- On Canaan’s Side by Sebastian Barry (9-18-11)
- Boxer, Beetle by Ned Beauman (9-13-11)
- The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach (9-7-11)
- Netherland by Joseph O’Neill (9-7-11)
- The Girl in the Polka Dot Dress by Beryl Bainbridge (8-31-11)
- An Accident in August by Laurence Cossé (8-31-11)
- Adios, Happy Homeland by Ana Menéndez (8-18-11)
- Smuggled by Christina Shea (8-14-11)
- Italian Shoes by Henning Mankell (7-31-11)
- The Soldier’s Wife by Margaret Leroy (6-28-11)
- The Secret History of Costaguana by Juan Gabriel Vásquez (6-18-11)
- State of Wonder by Ann Patchett (6-7-11)
- Other People’s Money by Justin Cartwright (6-1-11)
- The Changeling by Kenzaburo Oe (08-16-10)
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