Tuesday, July 20, 2021

High Conflict: Why We Get Trapped and How We Get Out - Amanda Ripley --------------------- 4 Stars

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One can argue there are no books more relevant in the past couple of years than Amanda Ripley's High Conflict.  Released a few months ag...
Tuesday, July 6, 2021

American Dirt - Jeannie Cummins ------------------ 4.25 Stars

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American Dirt  is only a year old but I had MANY people suggest I read this book as they thought I might enjoy; they were right - it was a g...
Thursday, June 10, 2021

The Orchid Thief: A True Story of Beauty and Obsession - Susan Orlean ----------------------- 4 Stars

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I recently read and reviewed The Library Book   by Susan Orlean and really enjoyed it. Her writing style is informal and fun and her non-fic...
Sunday, May 16, 2021

Healing the Heart of Democracy: The Courage to Create a Politics Worthy of the Human Spirit - Parker Palmer ----------------- 3 Stars

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I've had  Healing the Heart of Democracy: The Courage to Create a Politics Worthy of the Human Spirit , on my "to read" list f...
Thursday, April 29, 2021

The English Teacher: A Novel -- Yiftach Reicher Atir ----------------------- 2.5 Stars

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I was not familiar with The English Teacher when I picked it up from my sister's bookshelf. That's because it was written as an Isr...
Friday, April 16, 2021

Cherry - Nico Walker ------------------ 3.5 Stars

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The only reason I came across this book is because of a commercial about the upcoming release of a movie based on the story. Then, I quickly...
Sunday, April 4, 2021

The Library Book - Susan Orlean -------------------- 4 Stars

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I really enjoyed The Library Book  (non-fiction) by Susan Orlean. Published a few years ago, it was a pleasure to read as it covered a varie...
Sunday, March 21, 2021

Is This Anything? - Jerry Seinfeld -------------------- 3 Stars

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Like many people, I'm a huge fan of Jerry Seinfeld. His show is the greatest sitcom ever made (in my humble opinion), and I've alway...
Sunday, March 7, 2021

Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bronx Is Burning: 1977, Baseball, Politics, and the Battle for the Soul of a City - Jonathan Mahler ------------------- 4 Stars

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As the real title is too long, I'll just reference this book as The Bronx is Burning . You may also be aware of it because ESPN did an 8...
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...