Wednesday, July 09, 2025

Abundance by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson

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Abundance by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson is a solid work of nonfiction, with abundance defined as us having enough of what we need to c...

Fever Beach by Carl Hiaasen

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Fever Beach by Carl Hiaasen is another fun and entertaining novel by the author, whose books include Razor Girl, Squeeze, Me, Skink: No Su...
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...
Tuesday, January 21, 2025

The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova Bailey

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The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova Bailey is lovely work of nonfiction about the bedridden author and a connection she fel...
Wednesday, January 15, 2025

True Grit by Charles Portis

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True Grit by Charles Portis is an entertaining novel that was turned into an equally entertaining 2010 movie with Jeff Bridges, Hailee Ste...
Sunday, January 12, 2025

The Siege by Ben Macintyre

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The Siege by Ben Macintyre is an interesting work of nonfiction book  A Six-Day Hostage Crisis and the Daring Special-Forces Operation Tha...
Thursday, January 09, 2025

Revenge of the Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell

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Revenge of the Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell is a solid follow up to his first book, The Tipping Point from 25  years ago, and the new ...