Monday, February 20, 2023

The Talent Code: Greatness Isn't Born. It's Grown. Here's How. -- Daniel Coyle ------------ 3 Stars

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The title (full one) and premise for the Talent Code is interesting to me. Basically, the book is about why people end up being talented. S...
Tuesday, February 14, 2023

Our Country Friends - Gary Shteyngart ---------------- 3 Stars

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I'm not sure how Our Country Friends made my reading list. It's certainly the most recent novel I've read in a long time, relea...
Wednesday, January 11, 2023

Smash!: Green Day, The Offspring, Bad Religion, NOFX, and the '90s Punk Explosion - Ian Winwood ----------------- 3 Stars

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Not really sure how I decided to find this book and pick it up a few weeks ago. Most likely I was listening to some nostalgic 90's punk ...
Sunday, December 25, 2022

Cloud Cuckoo Land - Anthony Doerr ------------------ 2 Stars

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I think I had forgotten how much I disliked Doerr's first book, All the Light We Cannot See , when I decided to pick up his newest novel...
Saturday, December 17, 2022

Daniel Silva - First Four Books of Gabriel Allon Series ------------ 4 Stars

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About two months ago I began reading The Kill Artist by Daniel Silva. It was gifted to me along with the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th books of a serie...
Sunday, October 9, 2022

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson -------------------- 2.5 Stars

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On my list for many years, I finally got around to reading Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas , Hunter Thompson's, classic 1971 book that st...
Saturday, September 24, 2022

The World According to Garp - John Irving -------------------- 3.5 Stars

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I am not sure why or how The World According to Garp made my "to read" list. I know it's been on there a long time (like 5 ye...
Tuesday, August 30, 2022

Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage - Alfred Lansing --------------- 4 Stars

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Oh, how I do love summer. So much time to read! This is the last book I finished prior to the summer coming to a close for me, and it was a ...
Sunday, August 14, 2022

The Lincoln Highway - Amor Towles ------------------- 3 Stars

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A few years ago I read the well reviewed and mildly entertaining A Gentleman in Moscow (review here ), by this same author. I had seen The L...
Sunday, July 31, 2022

City of Thieves - David Benioff ------------------- 4 Stars

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I heard about City of Thieves on a recent podcast, and the individual shared it was one of his favorite books. As I dug deeper, it was real...
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Monday, July 18, 2022

Hawaii - James Michener ---------------- 3 Stars

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It's a bit difficult to try to give a rating to James Michener's Hawaii . There are parts of it that are exhilarating and difficult ...
Wednesday, June 22, 2022

Moss - Joe Pace ---------------- 4 Stars

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This is a special post, as I believe it's the only book I have reviewed which I know the author. The author is Joe Pace, a former collea...
Sunday, June 5, 2022

Yearbook - Seth Rogen ------------- 3.5 Stars

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Yearbook is the first book I've ready by Seth Rogen (and likely only). The book is short and funny and this blog post will be similar (...
Monday, April 18, 2022

1Q84 - Haruki Murakami ----------------- 4 Stars

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I've read a few other Murakami books over the last few years (reviews here ) with the hope that I would build up and eventually be able ...
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Wednesday, March 9, 2022

Sooley: A Novel - John Grisham ------------------------ 4 Stars

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I can't remember the last time I read a John Grisham book. As an adolescent I was religious in reading all of his early books... The Fir...
Friday, February 11, 2022

American Tabloid - James Ellroy --------------- 4 Stars

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In my teens, I had a pretty strong obsession about the JFK assassination. It wasn't long after Oliver Stone's JFK was released which...
Saturday, January 22, 2022

Little Women - Louisa May Alcott --------------------------- 2.5 Stars

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Not really a book that was on my list to read, I happened to view the most recent movie iteration of this classic novel and wouldn't you...
Saturday, December 25, 2021

The Tennis Partner - Abraham Verghese -------------------------- 3.5 Stars

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The Tennis Partner has been on my list to read for quite a while. Thanks to the free time allotted from Winter Break, I finally had a chanc...
Thursday, December 16, 2021

The Flight Attendant - Chris Bohjalian ------------------------ 2 Stars

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The Flight Attendant is a very popular book that has recently been made into a dark comedy series of the same name on HBO. I figured I'...
Monday, November 22, 2021

The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit - Michael Finkel ------------------ 4 Stars

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 The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit is a really great title. I find the idea of hermits fascinating...