Category: Book Reviews

July 13, 2014

Thank you for your Service by David Finkel **** (of 4)

The war after the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq consists of 500,000 broken soldiers, men and women returned to the United States suffering from PTSD...

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July 6, 2014

The Tears of Autumn by Charles McCrarry *** (of 4)

OK, it’s a period piece Spy Novel. Think Ian Fleming. Sean Connery. In this caper, Paul Christopher works for the CIA and he speeds around the...

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June 22, 2014

Five Days at Memorial by Sheri Fink *** (of 5)

When Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans and tens of thousands of residents were trapped in a city without electricity, water, sewage, law, government, shelter or...

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June 22, 2014

Talk to the Snail by Stephen Clarke *** (of 5)

It’s a standard genre. Expat, in this case British, lives in France long enough to write an irreverent, comic, snarky account of French mannerisms. He...

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June 8, 2014

The History of Love by Nicole Krauss *** (of 4)

On the upside, the main character Leo Gursky, who survived the Nazi invasion of his Polish village of Slonim by hiding in the woods for...

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June 7, 2014

An Army at Dawn by Rick Atkinson **** (of 4)

The year is 1942. Axis powers have taken control of Europe, east Asia and the Pacific, North Africa, and are threatening to consume Russia. Britain,...

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May 9, 2014

You Can Date Boys When You’re Forty by Dave Barry *** (of 4)

A series of slightly augmented columns from Barry’s newspaper gig smashed together in a very funny book. Barry muses on grammar, sex, grammar and sex,...

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May 5, 2014

Life after Life by Kate Atkinson **** (of 5)

On the first page, Ursala Todd has the opportunity to shoot Hitler in 1930 and does so. No wait. A few pages later Ursula is...

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May 5, 2014

From Sourdough to Bread

Start with this. A jar of sourdough frothing on the surface. (The tea and tomato are just for art’s sake.) Bird’s...

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April 25, 2014

Hitler’s Furies by Wendy Lower *** (of 4)

Contemporary research on Nazi war crimes suggests most Nazis were Ordinary Men. Neither crazed nor fanatical killers, Christopher Browning’s landmark book in 1992 discovered that most...

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