Wednesday, July 25, 2018

Sing, Unburied, Sing - Jesmyn Ward ------------------------ 4 Stars

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I don't necessarily read a lot of new releases or "hot" books, but I simply saw too many out of the universe reviews about S...
Saturday, July 14, 2018

The Chicago Cubs - Story of a Curse - Rich Cohen -------------------- 4.5 Stars

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I'm familiar with Rich Cohen as I read one of his other books and blogged about it here . As you can see, this was about the Chicago B...
Friday, June 29, 2018

Ordinary Grace - William Kent Krueger ---------------------- 3 Stars

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Ordinary Grace had been on my to read list for a while now after seeing excellent reviews about this book when it was released a few years...
Monday, May 28, 2018

The Great Alone - Kristin Hannah ------------------ 4 Stars

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Kristin Hannah is most well known for the wonderful novel, The Nightingale (review here ). So, it was with a bit of trepidation that I dec...
Friday, May 11, 2018

The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood --------------------- 2.5 Stars

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You'd probably have to be under a pretty large size stone to not know about or heard of The Handmaid's Tale . While the book has b...
Friday, April 20, 2018

Fatal Vision - Joe McGinniss --------------------- 5 Stars

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Fatal Vision has been on my "to read" list for a number of years. It's one of the best true crime books ever written, some ...
Sunday, April 1, 2018

Classic Krakauer: Mark Foo's Last Ride, After the Fall, and Other Essays from the Vault -- Jon Krakauer --------------------- 4 Stars

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So, Classic Krakauer is actually a newly released book though it is a collection of essays he's done over the past 20 years. Nearly a...
Friday, March 16, 2018

The Hate U Give - Angie Thomas ---------------- 4 Stars

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One of the pleasures of my job, is working with people who put me onto things that I might not otherwise encounter or check out. This is t...
Sunday, February 25, 2018

World Without End - Ken Follett ------------------- 4.5 Stars

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It has been almost 9 years ago to the day since I reviewed Follett's masterpiece Pillars of the Earth. What a great book, and one of ...
Friday, December 22, 2017

The Sympathizer - Viet Thanh Nguyen ------------------ 2 Stars

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Without a doubt, this is the longest break between blogs since I started over seven years ago. There's a couple of factors. First, th...
Friday, September 1, 2017

When Breath Becomes Air - Paul Kalanithi ------------------------- 4 Stars

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I tend to shy away from "sad" books. There seems to be too much despair in the world, and too many things I've studied in wo...
Tuesday, August 22, 2017

Carousel Court - Joe McGinniss, Jr. --------------------- 4.5 Stars

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So, how time flies. 8 years ago, I read and reviewed Joe McGinniss Jr's first novel The Delivery Man. I knew him briefly from playing...
Tuesday, August 8, 2017

Norwegian Wood - Haruki Murakami ----------------------- 3.5 Stars

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Haruka Murakami is one of the most accomplished and well known contemporary science fiction writers.  I've had 1Q84 on my list to rea...
Friday, July 21, 2017

Shantaram -- Gregory David Roberts ------------------------ 4.5 Stars

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One of the great parts about summer, is that I finally have some real time to put toward reading. I purchased Shantaram over a year ago, a...
Wednesday, June 21, 2017

The Daily Show (the Book) an oral History -- Chris Smith -------------------- 3.5 Stars

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Like many college educated liberals in their mid-30s, I was a HUGE fan of Jon Stewart's Daily Show. I remember falling in love with it...
Monday, May 29, 2017

Neuromancer - William Gibson --------------- 2 Stars

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So, I realized that my dad recommended Arthur Clarke's Childhood's End to me almost seven years ago. Besides being an incredible b...
Tuesday, May 2, 2017

Walter and Me - Eddie Payton -------------------- 2.5 Stars

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This won't be one of the longer reviews for a couple reasons. First, this book is mostly going to interest Bears fans. Second, it'...
Monday, April 10, 2017

Hillbilly Ellegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis -- J.D. Vance -------------------------- 3 Stars

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I didn't hear much about Hillbilly Elegy until someone mentioned it recently and I checked it out online. Well, apparently I was reall...
Tuesday, March 14, 2017

Underground Airlines -- Ben Winters ---------------------- 4 Stars

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Underground Airlines is one of the more interesting plot set-ups I've read in a while. It probably falls under the genre of "revi...
Wednesday, February 15, 2017

The Undoing Project - Michael Lewis ------------------ 4 Stars

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I really struggled trying to figure out how many starts to give Michael Lewis' new book T he Undoing Project . When I heard it was com...