Wednesday, November 30, 2022

The Mosquito Bowl by Buzz Bissinger

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The Mosquito Bowl by Buzz Bissinger is a solid book subtitled A Game of Life and Death in World War II . Bissinger chronicles how the 4th ...

Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel

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Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel is the sixth novel from Mandel, with two of the prior ones Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel...
Saturday, October 29, 2022

The River of Doubt by Candice Millard

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The River of Doubt  by Candice Millard is a solid book subtitled Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey . Millard chronicles well the ex-...

The Winners by Fredrik Backman

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The Winners by Fredrik Backman is a really good novel that closes out Backman's three-book series that began with  Beartown  and then ...

Heat 2 by Michael Mann and Meg Gardiner

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Heat 2 by Michael Mann and Meg Gardiner is an entertaining novel that follows up on the 1995 movie directed by Mann and starring Al Pacin...
Saturday, September 17, 2022

Serious Face by Jon Mooallem

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Serious Face by Jon Mooallem is an excellent book of essays by someone whose writing I enjoy quite a bit. Mooallem wrote Wild Ones  and Th...

Tracy Flick Can't Win by Tom Perrotta

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Tracy Flick Can't Win by Tom Perrotta is an enjoyable novel by the writer of Election , published in 1998 and turned into the Reese Wi...
Sunday, August 14, 2022

Ruthless Tide by Al Roker

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Ruthless Tide by Today show cohost  Al Roker is a solid work of nonfiction subtitled The Heroes and Villains of the Johnstown Flood, Amer...

Happy-Go-Lucky by David Sedaris

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  Happy-Go-Lucky by David Sedaris is his first new collection of essays since Calypso was published in 2018.  It's an entertaining an...
Sunday, July 24, 2022

Funny Farm by Laurie Zaleski

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Funny Farm by Laurie Zaleski is a well-written, interesting, and heartwarming memoir subtitled My Unexpected Life with 600 Rescue Animals ...
Monday, July 11, 2022

The Children's Blizzard by David Laskin

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The Children's Blizzard by David Laskin is a solid work of nonfiction about the storm that hit the Midwest on Thursday January 12, 188...

Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

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Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens is a well written and interesting novel that's a surprise mega-success. Its got over 12 million...
Thursday, June 30, 2022

Africa in My Soul by Cheryl King Duvall

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Africa in My Soul by Cheryl King Duvall is a good book subtitled  Memoir of a Childhood Interrupted . Duvall was ten when her parents went...
Saturday, June 18, 2022

Love is the Killer App by Tim Sanders

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Love is the Killer App by Tim Sanders is a solid read from 2002 with the subtitle How to Win Business and Influence Friends . The idea pu...
Sunday, May 29, 2022

Finding the Mother Tree by Suzanne Simard

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Finding the Mother Tree by Suzanne Simard is a solid work of nonfiction subtitled  Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest . Simard is a prof...

The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel

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The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel is a well-written and interesting novel from the writer of Station Eleven . This book includes ch...
Tuesday, April 26, 2022

Creativity, Inc. by Ed Catmull

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Creativity, Inc. by Ed Catmull  is by one of the co-founders of Pixar and a solid book subtitled Overcoming  the Unseen Forces That Stand i...

Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson

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Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson is a fun novel with a wild storyline... Lillian and Madison were unlikely roommates and yet inseparabl...
Thursday, March 31, 2022

The Eye Test by Chris Jones

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The Eye Test by Chris Jones is by one of my favorite writers, someone who writes great kickers, or endings to stories. The book is subtitl...

The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

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The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho  is a novel that features the main character following his heart, risking everything to seek out his destiny....