Wednesday, January 29, 2014

This is How You Lose Her, by Junot Diaz

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Junot Diaz. This is How You Lose Her . New York: Riverhead Books, 2012. 217 pages. ISBN 9781594631771. I heard Junot Diaz speak at a Book ...

The Bible Unearthed, by Israel Finkelstein and Neil Asher Silberman

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Israel Finkelstein and Neil Asher Silberman. The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology's New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of its Sacre...
Sunday, January 19, 2014

The David Story, by Robert Alter

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Robert Alter, The David Story: A Translation with Commentary of 1 and 2 Samuel. New York: Norton, 1999. 410 pages. ISBN 0393048039. This ...
Sunday, January 12, 2014

Gypsy Boy, by Mikey Walsh

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Mikey Walsh, Gypsy Boy . New York: Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press, 2012. 278 pages. ISBN 9780312622084. Compared with Runnin...
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The End of the Bronze Age, by Robert Drews

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Robert Drews, The End of the Bronze Age: Changes in Warfare and the Catastrophe ca. 1200 B.C. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 19...
Tuesday, January 7, 2014

Brain on Fire, by Susannah Cahalan

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Susannah Cahalan, Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness. New York: Free Press, 2012. 266 pages. ISBN 978451621372. This is another book ...
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Neanderthal, by Paul Jordan

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Paul Jordan, Neanderthal: Neanderthal Man and the Story of Human Origins. Phoenix Mill, U.K.: Sutton Publishing, 2000. 239 pages. ISBN 07509...

Paris: Then and Now, by Peter and Oriel Caine

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Peter and Oriel Caine, Paris: Then and Now. San Diego, CA: Thunder Bay Press, 2003. 144 pages. ISBN 1592231365. I found Paris: Then and No...
Friday, January 3, 2014

All the Fishes Come Home to Roost, by Rachel Manija Brown

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Rachel Manija Brown, All the Fishes Come Home to Roost: An American Misfit in India. Emmaus, PA: Rodale, 2005. 349 pages. ISBN 1594861390. ...
Monday, December 30, 2013

Chimera, by David Wellington

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David Wellington, Chimera . New York: William Morrow, 2013. 432 pages. ISBN 9780062248770. Afghanistan war veteran Jim Chapel has been wor...
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Thursday, December 26, 2013

The Never List, by Koethi Zan

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Koethi Zan, The Never List. New York: Viking, 2013. 303 pages. ISBN 9780670026517. At the age of 12, Sarah and her friend Jennifer were i...

After I'm Gone, by Laura Lippman

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Laura Lippman, After I'm Gone. New York: William Morrow, 2014. 334 pages. ISBN 9780062309563. Laura Lippman's latest novel, After ...
Tuesday, December 17, 2013

Before I die, by Candy Chang

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Candy Chang, Before I Die. New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 2013. 303 pages. ISBN 9781250020840. Candy Chang is an artist who decided t...
Monday, December 16, 2013

Fortunately, the Milk, by Neil Gaiman

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Neil Gaiman, Fortunately, the Milk. Illustrated by Skottie Young. New York: HarperCollins, 2013. 113 pages. ISBN 9780062224071. Neil Gaima...
Sunday, December 15, 2013

Short Movie Reviews: The Counselor; Catching Fire; The Desolation of Smaug

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Once in a while I will use this space to write short movie reviews. While I used to go to the movies about once a week, after we moved to Al...

Songs of Willow Frost, by Jamie Ford

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Jamie Ford, Songs of Willow Frost. New York: Ballantine Books, 2013. 331 pages. ISBN 9780345522023. Songs of Willow Frost is Jamie Ford...
Saturday, December 7, 2013

The Lowland, by Jhumpa Lahiri

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Jhumpa Lahiri, The Lowland . New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2013. 339 pages. ISBN 9780307265746. Jhumpa Lahiri's earlier books include The...
Sunday, December 1, 2013

Night Film, by Marisha Pessl

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Marisha Pessl, Night Film. New York: Random House, 2013. 596 pages. ISBN 9781400067886. When I heard that Marisha Pessl had a new book out...
Wednesday, November 27, 2013

Confessions of a Hater, by Caprice Crane

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Caprice Crane, Confessions of a Hater . New York: Feiwel and Friends (an imprint of Macmillan), 2013. 358 pages. ISBN 9781250008466. As mu...
Monday, November 25, 2013

On Reading Tom Wolfe

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Recently I was reading an article that mentioned something that Tom Wolfe wrote and published in Harper’s Magazine in November 1989. Wolfe’...
Saturday, November 23, 2013

Swamplandia, by Karen Russell

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Karen Russell, Swamplandia . New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2011. 316 pages. ISBN 9780307263995. I know I'm two years behind everyone else...
Friday, November 22, 2013

A Pocketful of Poems: Vintage Verse, volume 1

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David Madden (ed.), A Pocketful of Poems: Vintage Verse, Volume 1. Boston: Thomson Wadsworth, 2006. 221 pages. ISBN 1413015581. The Pocket...
Saturday, November 16, 2013

Rustication, by Charles Palliser

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Charles Palliser, Rustication . New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2013. 323 pages. ISBN 9780393088724. I found this book to be compulsi...

Quiet Dell, by Jayne Anne Phillips

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Jayne Anne Phillips, Quiet Dell . New York: Scribner, 2013. 456 pages. ISBN 9781439172537. I really enjoyed this historical mystery, set i...

The Ha-Ha, by Dave King

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Dave King, The Ha-Ha . New York: Little, Brown, and Company, 2005. 340 pages. ISBN 0316156108. I remember reading book reviews of The Ha-H...
Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Visitation Street, by Ivy Pochoda

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Ivy Pochoda, Visitation Street. New York: Ecco (an imprint of HarperCollins), 2013. 304 pages. ISBN 9780062249890. Visitation Street is t...
Tuesday, November 12, 2013

Burial Rites by Hannah Kent

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Hannah Kent, Burial Rites. New York: Little, Brown, and Company, 2103. 321 pages. ISBN 9780316243919. Burial Rites was the inaugural book...
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Friday, November 8, 2013

The Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarty

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Liane Moriarty, The Husband's Secret . New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2013. 396 pages. ISBN 9780399159343. This book will draw you ...
Wednesday, November 6, 2013

Dissident Gardens by Jonathan Lethem

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Jonathan Lethem, Dissident Gardens . New York: Doubleday, 2013. 364 pages. ISBN 9780385534932. I was very much looking forward to reading ...
Tuesday, November 5, 2013

Bellman & Black by Diane Setterfield

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Diane Setterfield, Bellman & Black: A Ghost Story. New York: Atria Books, 2013. 337 pages. ISBN 9781476711959. As a big fan of Ms. Se...