Books High and Low

Tuesday, June 22, 2021

Healthy aging, by Andrew Weil

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This is a valuable book with straightforward advice about all aspects of health and aging. I particularly appreciated the 2nd half in which ...

Sherlock Holmes, the missing years: Japan, by Vasudev Murthy

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  This is the first volume in a series that tries to fill in why Sherlock Holmes might have been up to after he fell off the Reichenbach Fal...
Thursday, June 17, 2021

Buja's diary, by Seyeong O

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  This graphic narrative uses 13 short stories to illustrate life in Korea during various periods of the 20th century. Many of the stories r...
Tuesday, June 15, 2021

Parsnips, Buttered: How to win at modern life, one email at a time, by Joe Lycett

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  Joe Lycett is another comedian (along with Sarah Millican) whom I was introduced to by Facebook (thanks!). You can find many of his clips ...
Sunday, June 13, 2021

Unwinding anxiety, by Judson Brewer

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  This is a useful approach to dealing with anxiety that has its roots in mindfulness. The author has conducted research and led experiments...

I found you, by Lisa Jewell

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  This is an absorbing thriller about a woman who discovers a man on the beach outside her home; he's suffering from amnesia. She invite...
Tuesday, June 1, 2021

Adrenaline, by Jeff Abbott

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This fast-paced thriller is about a CIA officer, Sam, whose pregnant wife is kidnapped just before a bomb destroys the London office where t...

Want, by Lynn Steger Strong

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  This short novel follows a year in the life of a private school teacher in Brooklyn who's trying to balance her marriage, two children...

The Lion, by Nelson DeMille

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  Anti-Terrorism Task Force member John Corey races to catch Libyan terrorist Asad Khalil before Khalil kills him and commits another act of...

Night fall, by Nelson DeMille

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  Anti-Terrorist Task Force member John Corey searches for the real cause of the TWA flight 800 disaster, following up on long-suppressed vi...
Wednesday, May 19, 2021

A big little life, by Dean Koontz

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  I really loved this account by Dean Koontz about his and his wife Gerda's adoption of Trixie, a highly-trained, three-year-old golden ...

Blue pills: A positive love story, by Frederik Peeters

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  In an exploration of my library's graphic narratives, I came across this 2001 account of a young man who falls for a young mother of a...

Rivethead: Tales from the assembly line, by Ben Hamper

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  I first learned about this book when my boss mentioned that he'd listened to a review of it (I believe on NPR, of which he was a big f...
Monday, May 3, 2021

Close encounters of the bovine: Recollections of a rural veterinarian, by Rosalie Cooper-Chase

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  When I was growing up, I was determined to become a veterinarian. After reading All things great and small , by James Herriot, I read ever...
Sunday, May 2, 2021

Copycat, and a litter of other cats, by David Yow

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  This is a really fun collection of drawings by David Yow, otherwise known as the vocalist for the bands Scratch Acid and Jesus Lizard. Yow...

The perfect storm, by Sebastian Junger

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  I appreciated this account of the October 1991 storm that caused so much havoc and tragedy, later made into a film starring George Clooney...
Tuesday, April 27, 2021

Micro fiction, edited and introduced by Jerome Stern

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  Edited by Jerome Stern, a former Florida State University professor of English and popular culture, this is a fun collection of very short...

Into the wild, by Jon Krakauer

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  I really enjoyed this book, although it's a very sad account of Chris McCandless' trek into the Alaskan wilderness and ultimate de...
Sunday, April 25, 2021

Another side of Bob Dylan, by Victor Maymudes and Jacob Maymudes

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  I picked this book up a few years ago at a Book Expo or ALA conference, and just got around to reading it. Based on recordings made by Vic...
Tuesday, April 20, 2021

The Great Hanoi Rat Hunt, by Michael G. Vann and Liz Clarke

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  I loved this graphic history of a time period that I don't know very much about: the French colonial period in Vietnam. The artwork is...
Saturday, April 17, 2021

Satan says, by Sharon Olds

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  Once in a while I dip into a little poetry. I recently read something that referenced Sharon Olds, so I decided to give her first book of ...

When elephants weep: The emotional lives of animals, by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson and Susan MCCarthy

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  I really enjoyed this book about the feelings and emotions of both wild and domesticated animals. Published in 1995, I expect that some of...
Sunday, April 11, 2021

The Eiffel Tower and other mythologies, by Roland Barthes

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  As I was browsing the shelves in my library, I came across this collections of short essays, most running 3-4 pages, with only a few longe...
Wednesday, April 7, 2021

One of these things is not like the other, by D. Travers Scott

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  While I was rooting around looking for a quick, fun read, I came across this book that I must have picked up at a Book Expo, maybe 15 year...
Monday, April 5, 2021

Radios: Short takes on life and culture, by Jerome Stern

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  I found this collection of short essays (2-3 pages) while perusing the shelves at work. The author was a faculty member at Florida State U...
Saturday, April 3, 2021

Hellboy, Volume 1: Seed of Destruction

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  Because I do enjoy the occasional graphic novel, I thought I would take advantage of our Libraries' collection, starting with Hellboy ...
Friday, April 2, 2021

Maid, by Stephanie Land

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  I have mixed feelings about this book. On the one hand, it demonstrates how difficult life can be for someone who doesn't have much of...

The looking-glass war, by John Le Carré

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Le Carré's fourth book was meant to be a satire, and apparently it didn't go over well with his fans. It tells the story of a small,...

The spy who came in from the cold, by John Le Carré

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  I had read this book decades ago, but I'd forgotten most of the details. I really enjoyed reading it a second time. I love his writing...

Art in the blood, by Bonnie MacBird

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  Entertaining imitation of a Sherlock Holmes mystery; a quick read with lots of twists and turns.
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