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.

Saturday, August 17, 2024

The Rose Code by Kate Quinn

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The Rose Code by Kate Quinn is a work of historical fiction that tells the story of three English female code breakers at Bletchley Park du...

The Exchange by John Grisham

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The Exchange by John Grisham is a highly entertaining novel that picks up the lives of Mitch and Abby McDeere fifteen years after The Firm...
Wednesday, July 31, 2024

Watchers by Dean Koontz

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Watchers by Dean Koontz is a really great work of fiction about Einstein, a dog with extreme intelligence that was created in a lab for mi...

The Future by Naomi Alderman

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The Future by Naomi Alderman is a novel that covers an apocalyptic scenario with entertaining writing. Alderman features three tech billio...
Monday, July 01, 2024

Challenger by Adam Higginbotham

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Challenger by Adam Higginbotham is subtitled A True Story of Heroism and Disaster of the Edge of Space and details the history of the sp...
Saturday, June 15, 2024

Fire Weather by John Vaillant

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Fire Weather by John Vaillant is a compelling work of nonfiction subtitled  A True Story From a Hotter World . Vaillant writes about the Ma...

The Wide Wide Sea by Hampton Sides

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The Wide Wide Sea  by Hampton Sides is a solid book subtitled Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James...
Saturday, June 01, 2024

You Have to Be Prepared to Die Before You Can Begin to Live by Paul Kix

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You Have to Be Prepared to Die Before You Can Begin to Live by Paul Kix is an excellent work of nonfiction subtitled Ten Weeks in Birmingh...
Thursday, May 23, 2024

The Demon of Unrest by Erik Larson

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The Demon of Unrest by Erik Larson is a really good work of nonfiction subtitled A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of ...
Monday, May 20, 2024

Dogland by Tommy Tomlinson

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Dogland by Tommy Tomlinson is an excellent work of nonfiction about the Westminster Dog Show, dogs in general, and Tomlinson and his relat...

South of Broad by Pat Conroy

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South of Broad by Pat Conroy is a beautifully written novel set in Charleston, SC and includes richly drawn characters and great writing a...
Sunday, April 28, 2024

Goodbye for Now by Laurie Frankel

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Goodbye for Now by Laurie Frankel is a novel set in Seattle that tells the story of software engineer Sam Elling and the computer simulati...
Friday, April 19, 2024

Fairy Tale by Stephen King

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Fairy Tale by Stephen King is a novel that tells the story of 17-year-old Charlie Reade. He meets and decides to care for a dog, Radar, an...

One Two Three by Laurie Frankel

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One Two Three by Laurie Frankel is a good novel that tells the story of the Mitchell triplets, Mab, Monday, and Mirabel. They're teenag...
Wednesday, April 17, 2024

The Escape Artists by Neal Bascomb

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The Escape Artists by Neal Bascomb is a work of nonfiction subtitled A Band of Daredevil Pilots and the Greatest Prison Break of the Great...
Friday, March 29, 2024

Supercommunicators by Charles Duhigg

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Supercommunicators by Charles Duhigg is an excellent book subtitled How to Unlock the Secret Language of Communication . Duhigg notes that...

The Boys of Winter by Wayne Coffey

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The Boys of Winter by Wayne Coffey was written in 2005 and subtitled The Untold Story of a Coach, a Dream, and the 1980 U.S. Olympic Hocke...
Sunday, February 25, 2024

The Women by Kristin Hannah

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The Women by Kristin Hannah is a compelling novel about Frances "Frankie" McGrath, who served in the Army Nurse Corps in Vietnam...
Thursday, February 22, 2024

Family Family by Laurie Frankel

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Family Family by Laurie Frankel is a really good novel about actress India Allwood, her adopted children Fig and Jack, her two biological ...
Sunday, January 28, 2024

The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah

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The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah is a lovely novel about the characters Vianne Mauriac and her sister Isabelle in occupied France during ...
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