Category: Book Reviews

September 9, 2012

Journey to Shiloh by Will Henry *** (of 4)

A Texas yarn about 7 teenagers who leave hill country to fight for the Confederate Army in the Battle of Shiloh. Tough and country-wise after...

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August 13, 2012

1493 by Charles Mann *** (of 4)

Prior to Columbus’s blundering into the Caribbean, there was negligible interchange of plants, animals, or humans between continents. Shortly thereafter the onset of large-scale globalization...

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August 6, 2012

The Tiger’s Wife by Tea Obreht *** (of 4)

This is a collection of Balkan folk tales loosely held together by the parallel lives of a young female doctor and her grandfather also a...

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July 19, 2012

Mission to Paris by Alan Furst *** (of 4)

Fredric Stahl, a handsome American movie star of Austrian descent is sent by his California studio to Paris to make a movie. The year is...

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July 19, 2012

The Midwife of Venice by Roberta Rich

A Jewish midwife in 16th Century Venice, by edict of the Pope, is forbidden from delivering a Christian baby setting up an ethical dilemma for...

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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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July 8, 2012

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...

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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...

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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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