Category: Book Reviews

July 15, 2011

Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese *** (of 4)

This is a half-century story of Marion Stone, born in the late 1950s as the twin son of a British physician and a nun (oops). ...

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July 15, 2011

The Woman Who Fell from the Sky by Jennifer Steil * (of 4)

If a book is this bad I ordinarily just leave it off my list, but this one deserves to be panned, partly because it received...

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July 2, 2011

Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman **** (of 4)

It takes equal parts chutzpah and talent to write a fairy tale for adults, but Gaiman has the skill to have you open the cover...

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July 2, 2011

The Eichmann Trial by Deborah Lipstadt *** (of 4)

In 2001 Deborah Lipstadt was brought to trial in Britain for libeling by David Irving in Britain after she described him as a Holocaust denier. ...

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June 22, 2011

The Perfect Mile by Neal Bascomb *** (of 4)

Until the 1950s scientists and athletes believed that running a mile in under four minutes was physiologically impossible when suddenly three athletes — a Brit,...

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May 29, 2011

Talkative Man by R.K. Narayan *** (of 4)

In the small fictional Indian town of Malgudi an independent, very amateur journalist pauses over coffee to tell a story. His subject is the mysterious,...

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May 26, 2011

The Frozen Rabbi by Steve Stern *** (of 4)

A Chasidic Rabbi from the olden country goes out to meditate on the meaning of God, falls into a trance, and then a lake that...

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May 22, 2011

Bottom of the 33rd by Dan Barry

The story of the longest baseball game on record: A 33-inning minor league game. Apparently full of philosophy, “Because we are bound by duty. Because...

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May 1, 2011

Cleopatra by Stacy Schiff **** (of 4)

Stacy Schiff doesn’t just bring the most powerful woman in history to life, she brings her readers on location. We face every decision Cleopatra contends...

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May 1, 2011

When the Emperor was Divine by Julie Otsuka *** (of 4)

A short introduction to the dehumanizing, racist relocation of Japanese Americans to internment camps at the outset of World War II. We follow a single,...

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