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Room for Doubt is Wendy Lesser's account of three separate but interlocking occasions for doubt: her stay in Berlin, a city she had never expected to visit; her unwritten book on the philosopher David Hume; and her long friendship with the writer Leonard Michaels, which constantly broke down and yet endured. Through this unusual journey, Lesser in the end shows us how, once examined, things are never quite what she thought they were.
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Ronauld G Walton
reviewed Room for Doubt on January 25, 2011 Room for Doubt
The five star rating is based mostly on the first essay here (about visiting and falling in love with Berlin) and the last (about Wendy Lesser's "difficult friendship" with the writer Leonard Michaels)--enjoyed the middle essay, too (which chronicles how WL decided not to write the biography of David Hume she'd been planning) but not nearly as much. The first and last, though: wow. WL might not be the easiest person to be friends with (she admits this herself), but as a narrator she's smart, passionately opinionated, interested in all sorts of things, and incredibly well-read and well-educated. I read this book slowly--it really does encourage you to stop and stare out the window and ponder--and with lots of pleasure, and it left me thinking about friendship, and the relationship between art and politics, and different cultures, and the joys of reading and music and thinking, and much much more.
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