July 19, 2012
The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddartha Mukherjee
A biography of cancer, winner of the Pulitzer and recommended by friends.
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July 8, 2012
The Sisters Brothers by Patrick DeWitt *** (of 4)
A tall tale of the Old West. A pair of brothers, Charlie and Eli Sisters, with the self-importance of Keillor’s Dusty and Lefty and the...
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Midnight in Peking by Paul French ** (of 4)
A young woman, Pamela Werner, is found brutally murdered on the wrong side of town. The town is Peking, her father is a former British...
Read More about Midnight in Peking by Paul French ** (of 4) June 22, 2012
1Q84 by Haruki Murakami **** (of 4)
Tokyo, 1984 (the title refers to the year and the Orwell book of similar title, not the IQ measurement of intelligence). Boy meets girl in...
Read More about 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami **** (of 4) June 17, 2012
Travels with my Aunt by Graham Greene *** (of 4)
Nobody quite does a comedy of manners like the British and Graham Greene’s paean to the superiority of living life on the edge is a...
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Churchill by Paul Johnson ** (of 4)
An interesting approach to a biography of the man who saved western civilization from Hitler. Churchill wrote more than 10 million words in his lifetime,...
Read More about Churchill by Paul Johnson ** (of 4) May 21, 2012
Read about Haiti
In March, 2012, I traveled to Hospital Albert Schweitzer in Deschapelles, Haiti. Read this to learn more.
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Hitch 22 by Christopher Hitchens **** (of 4)
A memoir of Hitchen’s 60 years on earth most of it he spent as an irrascible, cantankerous, and largely contrarian thinker, writer, and agitator. As...
Read More about Hitch 22 by Christopher Hitchens **** (of 4) May 21, 2012
Dissolution by C.J. Sansom
Nancy Pearl, NPR, says, “C.J. Sansom’s Dissolution is the first in a series of historical mysteries set in Tudor England during the reign of Henry...
Read More about Dissolution by C.J. Sansom May 15, 2012
Moneyball by Michael Lewis *** (of 4)
The salary gap between rich baseball teams in large cities like New York or Boston and small market teams in places like Kansas City, Minneapolis,...
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