Category: Book Reviews

June 17, 2010

The Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan

I finally read it. The first story about Johnny Appleseed is astounding. The second story about tulips is interesting. Marijuana: enough already. I know four...

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June 17, 2010

Born to Run by Christopher McDougall **** (of 4)

The author immerses himself in the ultra marathoning community and finds, and compellingly describes, the kind of people that run 100 miles, up and down...

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June 16, 2010

The Billionaire’s Vinegar by Benjamin Wallace *** (of 4)

I had no idea there were still bottles of wine worth drinking from the 18th and 19th centuries or that collectors frequently amassed cellars with...

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June 16, 2010

The Best American Travel Writing 2007 Edited by Susan Orlean *** (of 4)

On the upside, no kidding, Orlean and the series editor really do skim the cream from thousands of annual travel articles. On the down, there...

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June 16, 2010

Band of Brothers by Stephen Ambrose ** (of 4)

A story of Easy Company during WW II that trained as the most elite paratrooper unit in the Army and fought in the Battle of...

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June 13, 2010

An Ordinary Man by Paul Rusesabagina *** (of 4)

A painfully clear explanation of the genocide that overtook Rwanda as seen through the eyes of a man who survived and simultaneously saved the lives...

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May 15, 2010

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot *** (of 4)

Cells from Henrietta Lacks’ cancerous cervix were the first to ever be cultured in a lab in perpetuity making the woman they came from in...

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May 15, 2010

The Help by Kathryn Stockett **** (of 4)

The characters in this book – racist, southern white women in the early sixties and the black maids that work for them – are so...

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May 15, 2010

War by Sebastian Junger

Because I’ve really enjoyed all of Junger’s writing. This book is the first hand account of two years embedded with American troops in the recently...

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April 30, 2010