June 17, 2010
The Founding Fish by John McPhee ** (of 4)
Classic late McPhee. Dense, exquisitely written, and plotless.
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June 17, 2010
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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Fire by Sebastian Junger *** (of 4)
This is a series of reports from the late 90s, magazine articles originally, about dangerous jobs and dangerous people: smokejumpers, jihadists in Afghanistan, blood thirsty...
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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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Dreams from my Father by Barack Obama *** (of 4)
Obama’s memoir of his earliest memories through his years as an organizer strike me first as the story of someone I could easily have gone...
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Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood by Alexandra Fuller *** (of 4)
This book is the Angela’s Ashes of Zimbabwe-Rhodesia. Fuller is utterly forthcoming about growing up the child of white, racist, ex-pat, British, drunken parents during...
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A Death in Belmont by Sebastian Junger **** (of 4)
In the early 60s the Boston Strangler attacked, murdered, and then raped eleven women in and around the city. A black man with a criminal...
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