Sunday, February 14, 2021

Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln - Doris Kearns Goodwin ------------------- 3.5 Stars

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Luckily for me and any possible readers, there is no correlation between the length of my blog and the total pages of the book being reviewe...
Monday, January 18, 2021

Artemis - Andy Weir ----------------- 3 Stars

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You probably are more familiar with Andy Weir's more famous book (and movie) - The Martian.  Here is my review of it. Artemis was his f...
Monday, December 28, 2020

Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland - Patrick Radden Keefe ----------------------- 4.5 Stars

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Say Nothing reads like a piece of fiction - it's made up of unreal characters and a story that is too good to be true - but, every sing...
Wednesday, December 16, 2020

The Evening and the Morning - Ken Follett ---------------- 4 Stars

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 The Evening and the Morning is Ken Follett's newest book that is vaguely set up as a prequel to the amazing Pillars of the Earth (one ...
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...