Category: FICTION

July 12, 2022

The Martian by Andy Wier *** (of 4)

The Martian of this book refers to an American astronaut accidentally left stranded on Mars while his crew, thinking he had died during an intense...

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June 20, 2022

State of Terror by Hillary Rodham Clinton and Louise Penny *** (of 4)

As the book opens a new President of the United States has just taken office, displacing a hulking, bombastic, ignorant, self-aggrandizing, bloviating, possibly crooked predecessor,...

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May 31, 2022

The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles **** (of 4)

Steinbeckian in scope and style, The Lincoln Highway is equal parts coming-of-age story, travelogue, American history, rumination on the inalienable properties of heroism, and inevitable...

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May 31, 2022

Good Eggs by Rebecca Hardiman *** (of 4)

A lightweight, droll novel about an aging grandmother with a penchant for shoplifting, her beleaguered son who is sandwiched between gnarly teenaged children, an overachieving...

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April 27, 2022

Damascus Station by David McCloskey *** (of 4)

Soon after the Arab Spring reached Syria, Hafez Assad reacted to public uprisings with vicious government sponsored violence. Protestors were arrested, tortured, and slaughtered with...

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April 27, 2022

The Eagle’s Claw: A Novel of the Battle of Midway by Jeffrey Shaara *** (of 4)

Ostensibly, the single battle that shaped the outcome of WW II (of which, there are no doubt many such single battles bearing that accolade), is...

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March 27, 2022

Intimacies by Katie Kitamura ** (of 4)

You can probably disregard my unenthusiastic review. Intimacies, after all, was loved by everyone else from the NY Times to the National Book Awards. A...

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February 17, 2022

Razorblade Tears by S.A. Crosby **** (of 4)

Ike and Buddy Lee couldn’t be more different or more the same. Ike is Black and barely the survivor of deeply embedded southern racism. Buddy...

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February 17, 2022

A Monstrous Regiment of Women by Laurie R. King ** (of 4)

The second in the series of mysteries solved by the retired Sherlock Holmes and his young, sharp, eagle-eyed female assistant, no, make that coequal, Mary...

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January 9, 2022

Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips ** (of 4)

Take my review with a grain of salt. Disappearing Earth was a National Book Award Finalist and top-10 book of the year for the New...

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