June 17, 2010
Goodbye Darkness by William Manchester *** (of 4)
One of Manchester’s best. A memoir about his role in WWII marines in Pacific theater.
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Category: NON FICTION
June 17, 2010
Going with the Grain by Susan Seligson ** (of 4)
Eight travel stories about bread in Morocco, Jordan, Brooklyn, the Wonder Bread factory in Massachusetts and so forth. Seligson writes well enough. Her stories are...
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Getting Stoned with Savages by J. Maarten Troost *** (of 4)
In the style of Bill Bryson, self-effacing and laugh aloud funny, Troost describes his adventures on the Pacific isles of Vanuatu and Fiji. He leaves...
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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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The Founding Fish by John McPhee ** (of 4)
Classic late McPhee. Dense, exquisitely written, and plotless.
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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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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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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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The Endurance by Caroline Alexander ** (of 4)
About explorers trapped on the ice of Antarctica. Outstanding photos, OK read.
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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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