Category: Book Reviews

June 18, 2010

Nickled and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich **** (of 4)

I wasn’t expecting to learn much, especially after the book’s introduction. A Ph.D., upper-class (relatively speaking), journalist and author agrees to foresake her ordinary life...

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June 18, 2010

Mayflower by Nathaniel Philbrick *** (of 4)

I listened to half the book on CD, read another quarter, and didn’t have time to finish Philbrick’s account of the interaction between the Pilgrims...

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June 18, 2010

The Lost Painting: The Quest for a Caravaggio Masterpiece ** (of 4)

Harr is a wonderful writer and does his best to create a mystery story around the search for and ultimate discovery of a Caravaggio painting...

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June 18, 2010

The Looming Tower by Lawrence Wright **** (of 4)

You know at the beginning the story will end with planes flying into the World Trade Center, but Wright’s recounting makes the book a suspenseful...

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June 18, 2010

The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir by Bill Bryson **** (of 4)

Bryson recounts his Iowa childhood of the 1950s writing scenes so effectively that I could see every lincoln log (he peed on), smell the pages...

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June 18, 2010

Kristallnacht: Prelude to Destruction by Martin Gilbert *** (of 4)

A fluky book by on the of the world’s greatest Holocaust historians. Gilbert gathers dozens of newly uncovered personal histories of November 10, 1938 when...

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June 18, 2010

Krakatoa by Simon Winchester * (of 4)

An OK book. Probably better on tape than to read. That’s what Sue says. It was excessively dense, like wading through chest deep water. I...

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June 18, 2010

The Know it All by A.J. Jacobs **** (of 4)

Proof that passionate writing overwhelms mundane subject matter. AJ Jacobs read the entire Encyclopedia Britannica and writes a book about it.. Naturally, his book begins...

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June 18, 2010