Wednesday, November 25, 2020

An American Marriage - Tayari Jones --------------------------- 4 Stars

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As I was reading An American Marriage , I realized it was like an inverted bell curve of entertainment (basically, a U shape). It started ou...
Wednesday, November 18, 2020

Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators - Ron Farrow --------------- 3 Stars

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 Catch and Kill is not the type of book that you look forward to reading. It's about awful human beings, most notably, Harvey Weinstein...
Tuesday, October 27, 2020

Night Film - Marisha Patel ------------------- 4 Stars

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While not a book I had ever heard of till someone gave to me, Night Film  was an awesome read and quite different than many other books I...
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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...