Tuesday, March 28, 2023

The Escape Artist by Jonathan Freedland

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The Escape Artist by Jonathan Freedland is a powerful work of nonfiction subtitled The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World . ...
Sunday, March 26, 2023

Spare by Prince Harry

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Spare by Prince Harry is an autobiography that’s both compelling and well-crafted, with Harry writing it along with J.R. Moehringer , ghos...
Sunday, February 26, 2023

Bad City by Paul Pringle

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Bad City by Paul Pringle is a solid work of nonfiction subtitled Peril and Power in the City of Angels . Pringle is a reporter for the Los...
Saturday, February 18, 2023

Flight of Passage by Rinker Buck

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Flight of Passage by Rinker Buck is a solid book, and the first from the writer of The Oregon Trail and Life on the Mississippi . Publish...
Sunday, January 15, 2023

River of the Gods by Candice Millard

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River of the Gods by Candice Millard is a solid book subtitled  Genius, Courage, and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile . T...

Sooley by John Grisham

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Sooley by John Grisham  departs from Grisham's most common area of legal thrillers, with this novel tracing the path of Samuel Sooleymo...
Wednesday, December 28, 2022

Life on the Mississippi by Rinker Buck

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Life on the Mississippi by Rinker Buck is an excellent travelogue of sorts, in the same vein of his book The Oregon Trail . In this latest...
Tuesday, December 27, 2022

The Light We Carry by Michelle Obama

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The Light We Carry by Michelle Obama is a solid follow up to her book Becoming from 2018. The first is more of an autobiography and this ...
Saturday, December 03, 2022

The Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr. and E.B. White

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The Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr. and E.B. White  was first published in 1959 and over 10 million copies have been sold of this ...
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...