Monday, January 19, 2015

Perfidia, by James Ellroy

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James Ellroy. Perfidia . New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2014. 695 pages. ISBN 9780307956996. Ever since seeing L.A. Confidential and reading ...
Tuesday, January 13, 2015

The Book of Life, by Deborah Harkness

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Deborah Harkness. The Book of Life . New York: Viking, 2014. 559 pages. ISBN 9780670025596. The Book of Life is the third volume in Debor...
Monday, January 12, 2015

Hild, by Nicola Griffith

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Nicola Griffith. Hild . New York: Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux, 2013. 545 pages. ISBN 9780374280871. I loved this historical novel about th...
Sunday, January 11, 2015

Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time, by Jeff Sutherland

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Jeff Sutherland. Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time . New York: Crown Business, 2014. 248 pages. ISBN 9780385346450. ...
Wednesday, December 17, 2014

The Rosie Project, by Graeme Simsion

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Graeme Simsion. The Rosie Project . New York: Simon and Schuster, 2013. 295 pages. ISBN 9781476729091. Finding a romantic partner has been...
Tuesday, December 16, 2014

A Bowl of Olives, by Sara Midda

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Sara Midda. A Bowl of Olives: On Food and Memory . New York: Workman Publishing, 2014. 125 pages. ISBN 9780761145264. A Bowl of Olives is...
Monday, December 15, 2014

Nantucket Five-Spot, by Steven Axelrod

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Steven Axelrod. Nantucket Five-Spot . Scottsdale, AZ: Poisoned Pen Press, 2015. 283 pages. ISBN 9781464203428. In the second volume in the...
Sunday, December 14, 2014

Timeline, by Michael Crichton

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Michael Crichton. Timeline . New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999. 443 pages. ISBN 0679444815. In Michael Crichton's Timeline , he uses the...
Saturday, December 13, 2014

Prey, by Michael Crichton

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Michael Crichton. Prey . New York: HarperCollins, 2002. 363 pages. ISBN 0066214122. In Michael Crichton's thriller Prey , Jack Forman ...
Friday, December 12, 2014

One Kick, by Chelsea Cain

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Chelsea Cain. One Kick . New York: Simon & Schuster, 2014. 306 pages. ISBN 9781476749758. Author Chelsea Cain has had a successful run...
Sunday, December 7, 2014

Take Command, by Jake Wood

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Jake Wood. Take Command: Lessons in Leadership: How to Be a First Responder in Business. New York: Crown Business, 2014. 242 pages. ISB...
Tuesday, November 25, 2014

Fruits Basket, Ultimate Edition, v.1-2, by Natsuki Takaya

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Natsuki Takaya. Fruits Basket , Ultimate Edition, v. 1-2 (in one volume). Los Angeles: TOKYOPOP, 2007. Unnumbered. ISBN 9781427806895. Whi...
Monday, November 24, 2014

Wonderstruck, by Brian Selznick

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Brian Selznick. Wonderstruck . New York: Scholastic Press, 2011. 637 pages. ISBN 9780545027892. I read Brian Selznick's The Invention ...
Sunday, November 23, 2014

Nothing Left Over, by Toinette Lippe

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Toinette Lippe. Nothing Left Over: A Plain and Simple Life . New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam, a member of Penguin Putnam Inc., 2002. 257 ...
Saturday, November 22, 2014

The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry, by Gabrielle Zevin

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Gabrielle Zevin. The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry . Chapel Hill, N.C.: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2014. 258 pages. ISBN 9781616203214. ...
Monday, November 17, 2014

Three Books on Personal Finance

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Emily Chantiri. The Savvy Girl's Guide to Money: Take Charge and Get the Life You Want . San Diego: Thunder Bay Press, 2007. 227 pages. ...
Sunday, November 16, 2014

The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, by Marie Kondo

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Marie Kondo. The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing . Berkeley: Ten Speed Press, 2014. 213 p...
Wednesday, November 12, 2014

Three books on Feng Shui

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Darrin Zeer. Office Feng Shui: Creating Harmony in Your Work Space . San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2004. 102 pages. ISBN 9780811842150. ...
Tuesday, November 11, 2014

Neverhome, by Laird Hunt

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Laird Hunt. Neverhome . New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2014. 247 pages. ISBN 9780316370134 I really loved the first few pages, but a...
Saturday, November 8, 2014

Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less, by Greg McKeown

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Greg McKeown. Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less . New York: Crown Business, 2014. 260 pages. ISBN 9780804137386. As I've w...
Friday, November 7, 2014

Three Movie Reviews: Kill Your Darlings, Wadjda, and For No Good Reason

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I haven't been watching nearly as many movies as I used to this past year or two, so I was really happy to be able to catch three movies...
Thursday, November 6, 2014

Less Doing, More Living, by Ari Meisel

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Ari Meisel. Less Doing, More Living: Make Everything in Life Easier . New York: Tarcher/Penguin, 2014. 123 pages. ISBN 9780399168529. Less...
Wednesday, November 5, 2014

The Transcriptionist, by Amy Rowland

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Amy Rowland. The Transcriptionist . Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books, 2014. 246 pages. ISBN 9781616202545. First time novelist Amy Rowland has...
Tuesday, November 4, 2014

A Fistful of Collars, by Spencer Quinn

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Spencer Quinn. A Fistful of Collars . New York: Atria Books, 2012. 309 pages. ISBN 9781451665161. A Fistful of Collars is another winner ...
Monday, November 3, 2014

The Mutts Diaries, by Patrick McDonnell

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Patrick McDonnell. The Mutts Diaries . Kansas City: Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2014. 222 pages. ISBN 9781449458706. I've always been a...
Sunday, November 2, 2014

Three books by Brad Thor

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Brad Thor. Blowback . New York: Atria Books, 2005. 440 pages. ISBN 0743271157. Brad Thor. Foreign Intelligence . New York: Atria Books, 201...
Saturday, November 1, 2014

Faith, by Jennifer Haigh

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Jennifer Haigh. Faith . New York: Harper Perennial, 2011. 318 pages. ISBN 9780060755812. After reading and completely enjoying Jennifer Ha...
Tuesday, October 7, 2014

The Polish Boxer, by Eduardo Halfon

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Eduardo Halfon. The Polish Boxer . New York: Bellevue Literary Press, 2012. 188 pages. ISBN 9781934137536. Eduardo Halfon's The Polish...
Monday, October 6, 2014

The Drop, by Dennis Lehane

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Dennis Lehane. The Drop . New York: William Morrow/HarperCollins, 2014. 207 pages. ISBN 9780062365446. In Dennis Lehane's The Drop , a...
Sunday, October 5, 2014

Liesl & Po, by Lauren Oliver

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Lauren Oliver. Liesl & Po . New York: HarperCollins, 2011. 307 pages. ISBN 9780062014511. Liesl is an orphan who's been locked up ...