Books High and Low

Sunday, August 13, 2017

My Beloved World, by Sonia Sotomayor

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My book club picked My Beloved World for our May read. Sonia Sotomayor had recently visited the University at Albany, although I was trave...

June-August 2017

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People of the Book tells the story of a famous book through the imagined clues left behind in its pages. A moth, a wine stain, and ev...
Friday, June 2, 2017

May 2017 Reads

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A good mystery set in Northern California. Matthew Lindstrom has been given a tip that his wife, missing for 14 years, is alive and well. ...

Them, by Nathan McCall

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This 2007 novel is about tensions that arise when a traditionally African-American neighborhood in Atlanta succumbs to gentrification and yo...
Monday, May 15, 2017

The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F*ck, by Sarah Knight

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When I first saw this book I thought the author had written a manifesto against Marie Kondo's The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The...

Recent reads May 2017

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In no particular order, here are some of my recent reads: I loved this unconventional novel about Lincoln's young son Willie's d...
Thursday, May 11, 2017

Future humans, by Scott Solomon

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In this fascinating look at how humans continue to evolve, evolutionary biologist Scott Solomon explains the ways in which humans are still ...
Sunday, April 23, 2017

Wellth, by Jason Wachob

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Author Jason Wachob is an entrepreneur and founder of mindbodygreen , a healthy lifestyle web site with articles such as " If you only ...
Sunday, April 16, 2017

The Acid Watcher Diet, by Jonathan Aviv

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If you've suffered from heartburn or acid reflux, this book will teach you how to heal and prevent future episodes of either. Dr. Jonath...

A Deadly Wandering, by Matt Richtel

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A Deadly Wandering tells the story of a young man named Reggie Shaw who was texting while driving to work one morning. He was weaving from s...
Sunday, March 5, 2017

A Modern Way to Cook, by Anna Jones

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A Modern Way to Cook is an excellent new cookbook that contains more than 150 vegetarian recipes, arranged by how long it takes to prepare ...
Sunday, January 29, 2017

Catching up on Non-Fiction: November 2016-January 2017

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Faith Salie. Approval Junkie: Adventures in Caring Too Much . New York: Crown, 2016. 256 pages. ISBN 9780553419931. Faith Salie was the ...

Catching up on Fiction November 2016-January 2017

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Chinua Achebe. Things Fall Apart . New York: Fawcett Crest, 1959. 192 pages. ISBN 0449208109. This classic is the most-read book by an Afr...
Wednesday, November 2, 2016

A Lesson in Secrets, by Jacqueline Winspear

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After reading Maisie Dobbs I discovered that I had two more books from that series on my shelves at home. Although twelve books have been...

Maisie Dobbs, by Jacqueline Winspear

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Maisie Dobbs is the first book in a series about a WWI nurse who opens her own detective agency. Through alternating chapters we learn ab...

Outliers, by Malcolm Gladwell

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I finally got around to reading this book, although I read so many reviews of it I felt like I'd read it before. As with his other...
Saturday, October 22, 2016

The Interpretation of Murder, by Jed Rubenfeld

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Sigmund Freud's 1909 visit to New York and Boston serves as the backdrop to this page-turner of a mystery novel. Doctor Stratham Younger...
Friday, October 21, 2016

Think: Why You Should Question Everything, by Guy P. Harrison

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Author Guy P. Harrison provides a thoughtful analysis of why it's important to be a skeptical thinker. His thesis is that our memories a...
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Today Will Be Different, by Maria Semple

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I really loved Today Will Be Different by Maria Semple. It's about one day in the life of a woman whose life is spinning out of control...

The Underground Railroad, by Colson Whitehead

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The Underground Railroad, by Colson Whitehead, is a riveting novel about runaway slaves in the south just before the Civil War. Mr. Whitehe...
Sunday, October 16, 2016

The Triple Package, by Amy Chua and Jed Rubenfeld

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As I mentioned in my last blog post , when I read Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance (reviewed here ), I was inspired to pick up Amy Chua's ...
Saturday, October 15, 2016

Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, by Amy Chua

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When Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother came out in 2011, I read a number of reviews and articles about it, most of them criticizing author Am...
Saturday, October 8, 2016

Between the World and Me, by Ta-Nehisi Coates

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Between the World and Me is a powerful meditation on race in America. Author Ta-Nehisi Coates shares what it was like for him growing up in...
Sunday, September 18, 2016

Lunch at the Piccadilly, by Clyde Edgerton

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This short novel revolves around Carl, a middle-aged single man who is taking care of his favorite aunt, Lil Olive. After falling in the bat...

Overcomplicated: Technology at the Limits of Comprehension, by Samuel Arbesman

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According to the blurb, Overcomplicated "offers a fresh, insightful field guide to living with complex technologies that defy human com...

Hillbilly Elegy, by J.D. Vance

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With Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis , J.D. Vance reveals what drives a large swath of our population from the s...
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