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June 17, 2010

Game Time by Roger Angell *** (of 4)

A collection of Angell’s best stories about baseball. Vintage Angell. He’s one of the greatest writers in the English language on any topic.

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June 17, 2010

The Founding Fish by John McPhee ** (of 4)

Classic late McPhee. Dense, exquisitely written, and plotless.

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June 17, 2010

1491 by Charles C. Mann *** (of 4)

Mann skewers nearly every myth I learned in K- College about Native Americans. They didn’t walk across the Bering Strait to settle the Americas. They’ve...

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June 17, 2010

The Forever War by Dexter Filkins **** (of 4)

Filkins has chutzpah. He has been reporting on the war in Iraq since the days before Al Qaeda ever goaded the Bush administration into attacking...

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June 17, 2010

Fire by Sebastian Junger *** (of 4)

This is a series of reports from the late 90s, magazine articles originally, about dangerous jobs and dangerous people: smokejumpers, jihadists in Afghanistan, blood thirsty...

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June 17, 2010

Fifty Miles from Tomorrow by William L. Iggiagruk Hensley ** (of 4)

The life story of a native Inupiaq from the early 40s when native Alaskans were virtually untouched by Westerners, except missionaries, through statehood and the...

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June 17, 2010

The Endurance by Caroline Alexander ** (of 4)

About explorers trapped on the ice of Antarctica. Outstanding photos, OK read.

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June 17, 2010

Eat, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss **** (of 4)

What a hoot! The book is one heck of a lot of fun.

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June 17, 2010

Dreams from my Father by Barack Obama *** (of 4)

Obama’s memoir of his earliest memories through his years as an organizer strike me first as the story of someone I could easily have gone...

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June 17, 2010

Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood by Alexandra Fuller *** (of 4)

This book is the Angela’s Ashes of Zimbabwe-Rhodesia. Fuller is utterly forthcoming about growing up the child of white, racist, ex-pat, British, drunken parents during...

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