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...
Saturday, August 3, 2024

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd - Agatha Christie - 3.5 Stars

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Like many, I was first put on to Agatha Christie many years ago with her famous And Then There Were None.   I remember really enjoying that ...
Sunday, July 21, 2024

Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters Paperback - Mark Dunn ------------ 3 Stars

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Clever, creative, original - just same words that come to mind after finishing the bizarre but somehow quite interesting, Ella Minnow Pea . ...
Sunday, July 7, 2024

Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow - Gabrielle Zevin ------------------ 4.5 Stars

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Release two years ago, Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow  received critical acclaim since published. After waiting a couple months for the ...
Sunday, June 30, 2024

The Hunting Party - Lucy Foley ------------- 3 Stars

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I read The Hunting Party was a great "who dunnit" story from the other side of the pond. And, while I was actually pretty engaged...
Sunday, June 16, 2024

The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest - Candice Millard -------------------- 2.5 Stars

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   The River of Doubt sounded like a really exciting book to read. As Amazon describes it, "At once an incredible adventure narrative ...
Saturday, June 1, 2024

Don't Believe It - Charlie Donlea ------------------- 3.5 Stars

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Been on a bit of a role lately reading these "modern" thriller books with typical plot twists near the ending. Don't Believe I...
Monday, May 27, 2024

The Nickel Boys - Colson Whitehead ----------- 3 Stars

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A few years ago, I read The Underground Railroad by the impressive and well-regarded Colson Whitehead. While he's written a number of ot...