words written down

This blog is all about words because they matter, they influence, they entertain and when you put them down on a page in a meaningful order, they acquire permanence. Contained here is my writing over the past 10+ years, primarily book reviews over the past ~5 years, and I also have a book review podcast, Talking Nonfiction, available on Apple or Spotify.

Sunday, December 14, 2025

Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry

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Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry is a novel that chronicles the story of Alice Scott, Hayden Anderson, and Margaret Ives. Ives is a...
Saturday, December 13, 2025

Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy

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Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy  tells the set in the future story of Franny Stone, who arrives in Greenland with the purpose of tracking...
Friday, November 28, 2025

Paper Girl by Beth Macy

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Paper Girl by Beth Macy  is a good book subtitled A Memoir of Home and Family in a Fractured America . Macys grew up in Urbana, Ohio, gradu...
Sunday, November 09, 2025

Adventures of Mary Jane by Hope Jahren

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Adventures of Mary Jane by Hope Jahren is a solid novel, one with heart, that features as its lead one of the secondary characters from Hu...
Sunday, October 26, 2025

Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy

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Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy is a compelling, dark, and lovely novel set on Shearwater, a fictional island based on Macquarie Is...

All the Way to the River by Elizabeth Gilbert

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All the Way to the River by Elizabeth Gilbert is a heavy, but also beautiful nonfiction subtitled Love, Loss, and Liberation . Gilbert wri...
Wednesday, October 08, 2025

Destiny of the Republic by Candice Millard

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Destiny of the Republic by  Candice Millard is a solid work of nonfiction about the 1881 murder of President James Garfield. Millard in th...
Thursday, September 18, 2025

The Devil Reached Toward the Sky by Garrett M. Graff

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The Devil Reached Toward the Sky by Garrett M. Graff is an excellent book subtitled  An Oral History of the Making and Unleashing of the At...
Tuesday, September 09, 2025

Who is Government? by Michael Lewis

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Who is Government? by Michael Lewis is a solid compilation book subtitled The Untold Story of Public Service . It came out of a series of ...
Saturday, August 30, 2025

Lloyd McNeil's Last Ride by Will Leitch

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Lloyd McNeil's Last Ride by Will Leitch is a nice novel that starts with the main character, Lloyd, an Atlanta police officer with a t...
Sunday, August 24, 2025

Isola by Allegra Goodman

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Isola by Allegra Goodman is a captivating novel that begins in 1531 with twelve-year-old Marguerite, whose mother died during Marguerite...
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