Saturday, October 11, 2025

The Day the World Came to Town - by Jim DeFede ---------------- 3 Stars

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The Day the World Came to Town  was a fairly popular book than turned into (I think) a more popular musical, Come From Away . Telling the st...
Tuesday, September 23, 2025

Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks - Patrick Radden Keefe ----------------- 4 Stars

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This is now the third book I've read (and reviewed ) by Patrick Radden Keefe, and I'm realizing I really enjoy his writing style and...
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Saturday, September 6, 2025

Shogun - James Clavell ----------------------------- 3 Stars

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I'm a big of taking on large, hopefully rewarding books over the summer. With the added time to be able to engage and read more, it'...
Saturday, August 23, 2025

The Hunt for Red October - Tom Clancy ------------- 4 Stars

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Like most, I've been aware of Tom Clancy for many years and have enjoyed a number of the movies based on his book. However, it wasn'...
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Tuesday, August 12, 2025

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - Rebecca Skloot ----------------- 3 Stars

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To be candid, I really struggled with what ranking to give this book:  The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks . The ranking system is predicat...
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Tuesday, July 22, 2025

The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver ----------------- 3 Stars

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I had never read a Barbara Kingsolver book until I took on Demon Copperhead (review here ) a couple of summers ago. I heard some good thing...
Sunday, July 6, 2025

Trapped!: The Story of Floyd Collins – Robert Murray and Roger W. Brucker --------------- 4.5 Stars

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Earlier this year I visited Mammoth Cave National Park in western Kentucky. Not really something I had planned much but really enjoyed it on...
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Sunday, June 8, 2025

The Idiot: A Novel - Elif Batuman ------------------ 1.5 Stars

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A Pulitzer Prize finalist from 2018, I had read people really enjoyed The Idiot . They said it was clever, funny, and an interesting read. W...
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Saturday, May 10, 2025

Hard Rain Falling - Don Carpenter ----------------4 Stars

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I'm going to bet the most people are not familiar with Don Carpenter's, 1966 novel, Hard Rain Falling . And, up until recently, I wa...
Sunday, April 20, 2025

The Playground/The Overstory - Richard Powers ------------ 3.5 Stars/4 Stars

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So, in preparing for this review, I really was excited to share about the second Richard Powers book I've reviewed. Of course, the first...
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Saturday, March 29, 2025

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone - J.K. Rowling ----------------- 4 Stars

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Yes, I know; I'm super late to the Harry Potter phenomenon. In trying to figure out why I had never read one until now, I think I've...
Sunday, March 9, 2025

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil - John Berendt ---------------- 3.5 Stars

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So, I know I'm super late coming to the Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil party, seeing as the book was released 20 years ago this...
Sunday, February 2, 2025

The Premonition: A Pandemic Story - Michael Lewis ----------------- 2.5 Stars

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I've really enjoyed books written Michael Lewis. I've read a few and was so impressed (review from a few months ago)  with Going In...
Wednesday, January 8, 2025

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind - Yuval Noah Harari --------------- 2.5 Stars

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On my list to read for a while, I was excited to finally tackle Sapiens during the Winter Break. I actually started it in early December an...
Wednesday, November 27, 2024

Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering - Malcolm Gladwell ---------------------- 3 Stars

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One of my favorite, and most popular books that I've enjoyed was Malcolm Gladwell's 2006, The Tipping Point . It really moved me int...
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Saturday, November 9, 2024

Yellowface - R. F. Kuang ------------------ 4 Stars

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Released last year, Yellowface was met with some strong early reviews and was recommended to me as a good read. I recently finished it, rea...
Saturday, October 19, 2024

Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon - Michael Lewis ---------------- 4 Stars

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I've read and reviewed a few of Michael Lewis's books and normally find them quite interesting. The other thing that I find remarka...
Sunday, September 29, 2024

Chain Gang All Stars - Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah --------------------- 3.5 Stars

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Chain-Gang All-Stars has received some wonderful accolades after its release last year. After hearing about a few of them, I thought I'...
Friday, September 6, 2024

Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy -------------------- 1.5

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Well. I'm clearly a fool.   Here  are words I wrote upon reviewing Cormac McCarthy's  The Road  on February 22, 2009., "...but...
Wednesday, August 28, 2024

The Club Dumas Paperback –Arturo Perez-Reverte ----------------- 3 Stars

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On my "To Read' list" for a number of years was The Club Dumas , and I was finally able to get to it this summer. While it cam...