Sunday, June 15, 2025

My Friends by Fredrik Backman

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My Friends by Fredrik Backman is a lovely novel that features the characters of Joar, Ali, Ted, KimKim (the artist), and Louisa. Also impo...

The Emerald Mile by Kevin Fedarko

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The Emerald Mile by Kevin Fedarko is a really good book subtitled  The Epic Story of the Fastest Ride in History Through the Heart of the ...
Saturday, June 07, 2025

Framed by John Grisham and Jim McCloskey

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Framed by J ohn Grisham and Jim McCloskey is a solid nonfiction work with ten stories of wrongful arrest, conviction, and imprisonment, w...
Sunday, May 18, 2025

The Last Manager by John W. Miller

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The Last Manager by John W. Miller is a solid book subtitled  How Earl Weaver Tricked, Tormented, and Reinvented Baseball . Miller is a ma...
Saturday, May 17, 2025

Night of the Grizzlies by Jack Olsen

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Night of the Grizzlies  by  Jack Olsen  is a work of nonfiction that chronicles the separate fatal bear maulings of two nineteen-year-old wo...
Wednesday, May 14, 2025

The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah

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The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah  is a compelling novel about Leni Allbright, her parents Cora and Ernt, and them living in Alaska. The fa...
Saturday, April 26, 2025

The Boys of Riverside by Thomas Fuller

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The Boys of Riverside by Thomas Fuller is a good work of nonfiction that centers on the high school football team at the California School...
Sunday, April 20, 2025

The Upside of Stress by Kelly McGonigal

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The Upside of Stress by Kelly McGonigal is a solid work of nonfiction by the psychologist and professor. She notes in the introduction tha...
Sunday, March 30, 2025

Ghosts of Honolulu by Mark Harmon and Leon Carroll, Jr.

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Ghosts of Honolulu by Mark Harmon and Leon Carroll, Jr. is a solid work of nonfiction subtitled A Japanese Spy, A Japanese American Spy Hu...

Bel Canto by Ann Patchett

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Bel Canto by Ann Patchett is a lovely novel that brilliantly portrays the characters in the book. The setting is a hostage situation in Sou...
Sunday, February 23, 2025

Tom Lake by Ann Patchett

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Tom Lake by Ann Patchett is a well-written novel that's character, rather than plot, driven, and a nice read about love and relationsh...

Gringos by Charles Portis

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Gringos by Charles Portis is a novel that tells the story of Jimmy Burns, an expatriate American in Mexico. The book recounts the bizarre ...
Friday, February 07, 2025

James by Percival Everett

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James by Percival Everett is an interesting novel that reimagines the Huck Finn story told through a first-person account by Jim, Huck...

Dickens and Prince by Nick Hornby

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Dickens and Prince by Nick Hornby is an interesting work of nonfiction that compares Charles Dickens and Prince. It's a fascinating co...