Sunday, September 20, 2020

The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America - Richard Rothstein --------------------- 4 Stars

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 The Color of Law was recently recommended to me as a great book to better understand the current challenges created by systematic racism i...
Saturday, September 12, 2020

The Underground Railroad - Colson Whitehead ------------------ 4 Stars

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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, The Underground Railroad has been on my "to read" list for a while. Happy I could finally get to it ...
Tuesday, August 18, 2020

The Emperor of Ocean Park - Stephen Carter -------------------- 4 Stars

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Well, after really struggling through my last book, The Name of the Rose (which earned a wretched review ), I was so pleased to read The Emp...
Thursday, August 6, 2020

The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco -------------- 1.5 Stars

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The Name of the Rose was a huge hit when it was released in the 1980s. I recently came across it as it many said it was a great book and ve...
Friday, July 24, 2020

Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell --------------- 4 Stars

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I might be a little bit late getting to Gone with the Wind , since it is nearly 100 years old (lol), but I like to take on a longer book dur...
Thursday, June 11, 2020

Where the Crawdads Sing - Delia Owens --------- 4 Stars

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While I'm a bit late to the Where the Crawdads Sing party, as this book came out over 18 months ago, it's still a massive bestselle...
Monday, May 25, 2020

The Wisdom of Crowds - James Surowiecki ------------------ 1 Star

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The Wisdom of Crowds had been on my to read list for a number of years. I was hoping that it would be as entertaining and enjoyable to read...
Saturday, April 25, 2020

Freedom - Jonathan Franzen ------------------ 3 Stars

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I really enjoyed Franzen's other major novel - The Corrections. I assumed that Freedom would be just as good, if not better. For some ...
Tuesday, April 7, 2020

Only Plane in the Sky: On Oral History of 9/11 - Garrett Graff ---------- 4 Stars

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While not intentional, the coincidence of my reading of The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11 and the COVID-19 pandemic begi...
Saturday, March 14, 2020

Just Mercy - Bryan Stevenson ---------------------- 4 Stars

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I've had Stevenson's Just Mercy on my "to read" list for a while now, ever since I saw him speak a few years ago in Bal...
Sunday, February 23, 2020

The Art of Fielding - Chad Harbach -------------- 4 Stars

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Thanks to my kind brother-in-law, I recently had the chance to read the enthralling book,  The Art of Fielding . While I had not heard of ...
Sunday, February 2, 2020

The Unwinding - George Packer ---------------------- 3.5 Stars

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I recently came across this book as I was perusing a list of the best non-fiction of the past 20 years. While I have read more than a few ...
Saturday, January 18, 2020

Talking to Strangers - Malcolm Gladwell ------------------------- 4 Stars

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Well, I'm a huge fan of Malcolm Gladwell and was very excited to read his new book, Talking to Strangers . I've read all of Gladwe...
Sunday, December 1, 2019

The Martian - Andy Weir -------------------------- 4 Stars

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Well, I feel like I've been on a great streak lately with enjoyable and entertaining books. The last two I reviewed both earned 4.5 st...
Sunday, November 17, 2019

Basketball (and Other Things) - Shea Serrano ------------------------------- 4.5 Stars

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Who would have thought a basketball book with questions like, "Was Kobe Bryant a dork?" and "What attributes make for the b...
Wednesday, October 30, 2019

Aloha Rodeo - David Wolman and Julian Smith ----------------- 4.5 Stars

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I can't really remember where I came across the recently released Aloha Rodeo, but I'm sure happy I did as it was one of my favori...
Sunday, October 6, 2019

Be Frank with Me - Julia Claiborne Johnson -------------- 3 Stars

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Be Frank with Me was not on my radar but it was passed on to me, and it was an interesting read about an incredibly ECCENTRIC young boy n...
Monday, September 2, 2019

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami ---------------------- 3 Stars

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Well, this is my second run through with a Murakami book. A bit over two years ago, I read and reviewed Murakami's Norwegian Wood . A ...
Sunday, August 25, 2019

Range - David Epstein ------------------- 2.5 Stars

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About a month ago, I read David Epstein's last book, The Sports Gene, and reviewed it here . As you can see, I thoroughly enjoyed his ...
Monday, August 19, 2019

The Monuments Men - Robert Edsel -------------------- 4 Stars

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Perhaps, you were like me and saw The Monuments Man movie, or even the PBS special (The Rape of Europa), about a decade ago. But, were you...